a great majority are favourable to this opposition and obstinancy respecting their land. Being all collected - about 400 or 420, I told them that there was no objection to the Ngatiawas returning to the Taranakis, to the people of Minui of Urenui; that their land was not now encroached on by Europeans; that they were right in returning to their Kaingas, but there were others belonging to Waitara to whom I had something to say, before they should leave; that their land had been considered our property by the cession of Chiefs who claimed it as theirs; that we, finding it was not occupied, purchased it and surveyed it; that it consequently became the property of a great number of pakehas; whose determination, if not immediately carried into effect, would be eventually to