others of the lessees, to pay their rents (at the same rate as formerly) to him as Agent for the Native owners of the district, under a threat-that if they do not they will be driven off. How he lives nobody knows. He has a good house rent free from L. Daniell who is one of the lessees, which makes people imagine that Daniell and some of the squatters keep him, as they secure their runs while he keeps the Govt. out. He has also I hear got a lease of 2000 acres of the Orowa reserve (awarded by the Court to the Ngatiraukawas) and is building a house there. If you do come up you must excercise the utmost caution in respect to him, as he will misrepresent and twist to the Natives whatever you say. The Orowa lot and those whom