terminate satisfactorily then the Panui alluded to in my telegram of January 23rd will be discussed. You will now be able to understand the reason why Ngatihaua have taken up their residence at Te Kuiti; it is apparently to strengthen Tawhiao against Ngatimaniapoto. Hone Wetere informs me that Tawhiao's wife Parehaiwaki (a near relative of Hone's) told him the reason Tawhiao went to Alexandra was to shew the tribes, and ourselves, that he was opposed to the murder committed by Purukutu, and that that act was Purukutu's own. Tawhiao gave her this reason for his going there himself. Wetere also states that had you returned to Kawhia in the four days, which he says he asked you to do, you would have caught Tawhiao at his settlement, and all would now have been