straight, when I have seen my land, and written to tell the Governor of my arrival at Waitara.'' I told him again of the Governor's kind intentions which he acknowledged. Tupe came up while I was engaged with William King, to offer his land for sale, bringing a letter to his friends at Waitara, desiring them to do the same, and telling William King - whom he was astonished to meet on a similar embassy - that if he did not dispose of his land to the Government, he should; and that if he did not do so quickly, he should; as his desire was to favour the Government in every instance. William King may now rest assured that, from the change in the natives, opposition to the Government measures would now be fruitless. I promised that Tupe should not be neglected when the natives' land is surveyed; as he claims a large portion of the North banks of the river.