Britain, but this island and especially this particular district has been most densely populated, till within the last 30 or 40 years when a sweeping calamity or disease termed Te RewhaRewha supposed by the natives to be a god of great power taking them off by scores in the day without reeling any particular pain or previous disease by this means together with the waikato wars although the latter cause was never so destructive as the former may be attributed the annihilation of the Ngatiawa tribe. But to return to the business of the meeting I must observe that the