that great advantages will accrue both to this place and Auckland by its having been made easily available to person on horseback, but more than this it will have a great moral effect amongst the natives. Nikora who has been the principal man in the whole affair deserves the thanks of the Govt. His influence has had considerable weight with the Haroto natives. Rangihiroa appears now quite a different man. Of course he has always been told by me that he has been the mighty lever by wh.