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hear a native assessor had reason to sucnprt that kio •*» i. i « adultery with a young man named Rimene beloneW faT th v 6 " guHty of residing between Cape Egmont and Waneanui and n • gat ' manuittri e. by the confession of RiLne, he had dTrfctedhhn^S fUrth6r prorf namd Hon, who immediately proceeded to wlipJ P Y - 3 youn S man liberate] y killed him by a shVinX^breasf' TrntaLTf been sent to the Ngatiruanui, they assembled on the 20th IW . amount of 380 armed men, and made an assault on IWsPah If M the Waitere river, about eleven miles from the Town nf V ui M , anuka ' on made an able defence, but being hard pressed some of *7v m ° Uth - Ihaia a diversion in his favor, and succeded in covering his retreat U to et a PU p'h be Mahoetaki, some miles nearer to the settlement On tl,; a ! named had six killed and five wounded the SZL.i fi [■ , °, CCaS ! on Illaia ' s P a "X 0„ a. the 'appiSt 3 Tu^'',, came to the determination of returning to their homes A fresh m» k X arose which for some time threatened to embroil the Puketanu however > of the district with the Neatiruanui It was tlx. , , other natives the latter to return homewards coastwise, through thTsettk'men^TT^ 10 this intention was however eventually abandoned and on thTTsth tl, l! /' party set off on their march homeward by the mountain road thru at the back of Mount Egmont, careful^ boundaries of the settlement, indeed so cautious were thev of ,Wf • i the settlers, that a considerable amount of property in good and m "vf 1 ingto an inhabitant of the town of New pLS, happened 7o £ inK house close to the pah of the Ihaia, was carefully and scrupulousy removed by the Ngatiruanui, before going into action. °y From all * can hei ";> * hls ' ast a ff a i r ma y be considered as settled as the oss has been pretty nearly balanced and Ihaia and his party have gone back to their Pah at Manuka but with regard to the first, I fear that further bloodshed may be expected and as unfortunately it has arisen about a land question Ka tatore will have all the sympathy of those who are opposed to the Lie of 'land lhe relations and friends of the deceased chief, Rawzri, who are principally re sident within the settlement, and who are called the friendly natives, as beint thet/peV'le 31-6 determined to have reven g e for the death of 6. — The interference of the Government is vehemently called for bv Rawiri's friends, who are the weaker party, and who are loud in their demands for arms and amunition and also for troops. On the contrary the opposite p .rtv are as anxious that the Government should not interfere in the matter at all 7—l (1 ° not think that any danger is to be apprehended to the Colonists and the setlement from these native disturbances, so long as the Government and Colonists abstain from interference. The natives of Kawiri's party would no doubt, try to involve the Government in the quarrel, but I think the other partv would be careful not to interfere with the settlement as by so doing they would throw a preponderance into the hands of their opponents, if the Government were compelled to interfere, independently of which, natives are very averse to giving the first cause of ruarrel, B.—The active and armed interference of the Government in these native quarrels would I fear be fatal to the prosperity of the settlement for some time to come as the outsettlers would be compelled to concentrate themselves in town tor the protection of their wives and families, and their properties in the mean time would go to ruin. The number of natives residing in the settlement may be estimated at 400 men able to bear arms, of whom from 150 to 200 may be called friendly natives. The natives in the neighbourhood may be estimated as follows 1 St.—Ngatiruanui 50 men, all able to be.r arms, 25 of whom might be de, pended upon. 2nd.—Taranaki natives 150, 50 of whom might be depended upon. 3rd.—Ngatiruanui 400, all of whom would probably join Katatore; added to this many disaffected natives living up the river W'hanganui would be likelv