Mr. MacKlane, Sir, Having been most barbarously ill-treated, and my life threatened, by one Samuel Harrington, in almost shocking manner, and sent away without my wages, I, under these circumstances, beg your attention to the relation of facts which was the cause. Having engaged with Harrington, a whaler, in Hawke's Bay, to steer "Luna" during the Summer season; when about the 11th. October, he ordered the boat to be launched for the purpose of getting some rum from Waikokopu; some time after we arrived there he was so intoxicated about 12 o'clock at night he came down to the boat swearing in a most awful manner, and enquiring where Hooper, another whaler, was. The answer was,- lying on the grass where drunken people in general lay. He ordered us to launch the boat, which we did. When a short distance on the water, he got up, as one deprived of all reason, and seized a boat spade, used to cut up the whale's blubber, and a most deadly instrument. I used all the means to persuade him from so wicked an act as he was then threatening to do to us; there being one European and five natives beside myself, we could have bound him; but in the scuffle,