confidence and faith in the intentions and assurances of the Government. The following is the substance of the native speeches:- Hohepa Mongaraki, a Chief of the Ngatiuwanuku, was speaking to this effect:- ''Let us not part with our land at Waitara. I shall not give up till I am dead; then the land may be taken. If, by selling it, food would grow on the money, or ''utu'' we might do so; but the people cannot live on money! My children, hold the land!'' Nikorima from Arapawa, an old man, got up; and addressing his people from Arapawa said:- ''My people, hold the land! The parent that lives and feeds the people, the sucking milk of the children that keeps them alive!'' Then he sang an old piece of poetry:-