asserting the right of might over the land within certain boundaries, without reference to the claims of other tribes which they were precluded by him from exercising. 8. I also requested him to confine his observations to the more important matters at issue and to unfold frankly the reasons why his tribes, the Ngatihaua and Waikato, had taken up arms against the Government, and asked him whether he was prepared to represent fully in writing any grievances he had to complain of in order that they might receive due consideration by the Governor, with a view to they devising of some means for their removal. 9. He replied that the occupation of Waitara was the sole cause, in the present instance, of their taking up arms; though he was not prepared