Native Secretary's Office, Auckland, March 22, 1861. Sir, I have the honor to lay before Your Excellency the following report of my visit to the Natives engaged in hostilities at Waitara. 1. Upon my arrival on Monday last the 18th. inst., I wrote to William Thompson informing him that I had been deputed by Your Excellency to have an interview with him; and that so soon as he hoisted a flag of truce I would confer with him. 2. During the whole of