How seldom, from my own personal experience, has an appeal to a merciful Providence been made, without a satisfactory reply. To-day a wonderful change has taken place in the natives. A party of the Puketapus are offering their land for sale, and desire to join us, instead of being considered opposed to us. William King has come up to the Police Station, and seems to be quite different in his behaviour. He says I have treated him badly, by encouraging a party to dispose of their land; that I was causing a division of the natives against him, and frustrating his intentions respecting Waitara; that Ihaia, Te Tupe, and I were selling or taking