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Memorandum. VVilliam King, of the Waitera, a chief of considerable influence never cenary otXtlCl "* taV ° r °' Governme » t --his character is comide.ed meruit T '\ one the Waiwakaiho, a principal assessor, a man of some note Delrl to h ot V6ry great ir,fllJenc "'' his disposition is friendly, but he apL„t is concerned 0 " 1 C ° nteSled matters Governiakana of the Hua, an Assessor, whom I consider a chief of ffronino- Jm portance, well disposed to Government. Raniera of the Hua a chief of whom I appears H *™> ™ billed, the general appears t, be that, in recommending him to be made a first clas; Assessor i , success,on to kawiri, Mr. McLean overbed his position but Utever tbe tha circumstances g,ves a claim to anv influence he possesses p ° fthe r Ua,tera , the injured husband, this man and his brother Ta sale of la.id'to'a S ° me C ° nS ' H der tion ; but h,VP felt dissatisfied about a t .° a P er8 ° n named Mnombe which Government refused to sanction for a , 1, p l r n v int ° rll ! at ' on a^ainst Sinombe, before the Resident Magistrate' for a bieach of the Native Land Purchase Ordinance Poharemn ofrho \fJ •bcTUX "iSd ° f n, ° Cl ' '"'"""l ° f " er J' fir " "> d "ependen-. eto.JJ inw2"?G™tr„"„r , ' S ' • ™ iSh,be mat ' e serviceable to the ■ a arnat ' Williams, of Tapiu, an Assessor, a very clever man nf JavoTor'V 617 metCenary ' hither '° not tho »ght disposed to take'an active part in he h J Gove ' n ™ ent > an opinion in which I concurred, and the line of conduct JL pU p U ? d n " g th , e late disturbance appears to have home out my views i '' a ' n ol the Waiwakaiho a man of some influence, very shrewd and 1 think quite alive to the fact that his own interests would he best Served 1 v 'JZtIPXgZZ? " ° UCh ,hOW " • lme " ,, y «'• F-e™ for hii gj r _ Auckland, January 27th, 1855. adminhll a rin^L h r nCr t0 r6P ° rt u' the information ° f his Excllency the officer nica ed on 97 f K °T Cr r'" 6 " 11, acco "lance with the instructions commute , -/cii ult. I proceeded to laranaki on that day per steamer Nelson. thin'rr n,,i. • at laranak i on the afternoon of the "/Bih ult., I found every. Lnul ffj °\S f V, . dent . , y an unseitled feeling amongst the native h- rirl/irif! f ° i, 16 r £°' n £ a ' ,o "t their occupa ions with arms in their /lands and from these commencing to put their Pahs in fighting order. assessor en!l ' r - v ' * f ° ur| d that the first affray, in which Rawiri the native IZ\ hepn tin l ," ie J nOSt res P ected na tives of the ruketapu tribe, and six others had been killed by katatore, and partly arose from Rawiri attempting to cut the boundary or a piece of land which he had offered for sale to Mr. G. Cooper, the ,a' . t mmissioner of the laranaki district. It appears that Katatore had long ago stated his intention of retaining th s land and had threatened to oppose any one who should offer to sell it; Rawiri, however, on account of some quarrel theboundary' F ° P ° g the land and was desired b y Mr - hooper to cut Rawiri proceeded accordingly with twenty-two others, on the morning of the , ot August last *nd had succeeded in cutting some part of the boundary line, when Katatore and party rushed down from his Pah, and after warning Kawiri w.ce wit lout effect to desist, fired and killed him and six others, four were severejy and four slightly wounded. 4.—Vv ith regaru to the second affray, it origins*"! in the following cause. I