of saving a very great many cattle belonging to the settlers, take it altogether, they have behaved remarkably well, and very many of them just as trustworthy as many of our own countrymen. In fact I don't know what we should have done without them on several oacasions. I think the Waikatos in taking up Wi Kingi's cause at Waitara have caught a tartar. They fancied they were going to drive us into the sea, and have it all their own way. Matarikoriko, Mahoetahi, and the affair of the Redoubt the other day have dispelled the illusion, and I should they are heartily sick of ever