ground from Papatinawa (the hole in the rock about 2 miles south of the Sugar-loaves) across Waireka hill to Tapui waiwai about 2 miles in extent, they have 7 or 8 Pas built and a great number of rifle-pits, as far as I can learn there are about400 Ngatiruanuis, 200 Taranakis, very few of the Ngarauru, and a sprinkling of the turbulent spirits from Wanganui, at present Epiha and Tupihana, with about 200 Waikatos are there (Epiha is going back to Waitara in a day or two I believe with a present of kai from Taranaki to Waikatoat Waitara.) The Waikatos occupy one of the pas on Waireka hill. It appears to me that Epiha's trip down South some time since