Several of the natives are so annoyed at the offers made to me by Tupe and his party, to dispose of their Waitara land, that they threaten to give up the whole of Waikanae to the Ngatiawas and Ngatimukauas; but William King, although himself greatly disappointed at their favourable offers to us, is quite opposed to the land passing into the hands of another tribe; showing his good judgement and sense by so doing, as they can have no pretensions of a claim to it, the Ngatiawas having previously occupied the district, and conquered it from the Ngatikohumunui tribe. Told the natives that our claims to the Waitara, which they so strongly object to, arrises from the following reasons:- First:- Chiefs of the Ngatiawa tribe sold, and if they were not whole owners of the land, they were connected with the owners; and were the only natives then possessing the country; the Waikatos, as conquered, also sold it.