7 August 1851 Friend, McLean, Greetings. I have had great affection for you since you have been away these two years. My word to you is for you to establish some payment for me, like the arrangement made for Hone Ropiha and Rawiri. You could consider it for these three years. It is not that I am giving up on your and my intention, Rawiri and I are still firm over the arrangements for the Pakeha and the Maori. However, I wrote to you because you set down these matters in the past, of payment for them, but not for me. Friend, McLean, I have sacked Tamati Waka and the reason I did this is on account of his wrongdoing. You have said that he was a troublemaker in the past, but later you knew him as a good man, but later again he has wronged Wiremu's wife, and he has attacked Wiremu Hikairo.