not be sufferers to any appreciable extent. Moreover the Natives generally throughout the Island, are in a very uneasy state, ready at any moment to select the best points of attack against other settlements, most of which are in a very exposed and undefended state. 28. The winter months are setting in, when military operations cannot be carried on with success. Great care is also necessary to prevent the Natives from becoming exasperated, sulky, and revengeful, by aprolonged struggle at that point. If this unfortunately becomes a phase of the New Zealand war life and property will be more endangered by the acts of a few marauding individuals than if the whole race were to rise in