the question for Your Excellencys decision and informed Willaim King that I should return forthwith to Auckland to submit the whole state of the case and that no doubt the Governor would visit Taranaki in person to effect a final settlement of the questions pending between him and the Government. I informed William King that hostitlities should cease for the present and that his people could have free access to their cultivations, peach groves and graves. I told him that during the truce the white flag should fly from his fortified places to prevent mistakes. That he should not retire to any great distance from Mataitawa as it was probable that the Governor would shortly arrive in the District. He promised to observe the truce religiously and expressed a hope that the Governor