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beach. I went to Ohau by the lakes with five or six 
of my boys, who found many of their relations at all 
the settlements. Nothing of any consequence occurred 
till we reached Parramatta after I had joined my people 
at ff^aikanae. Here we were detained a day by a 
violent gale from the south, accompanied with heavy 
rain. 
Rauperaha and Hiko were both here, and received 
E Kuru in great state, as he was nearly related to 
them both, through his Ngatiawa mother. I had 
little to say to Hiko, as I had never liked him since 
his false conduct before the Governor ; but I had a 
good deal of conversation with Rauperaha, which he 
rather forced upon me than otherwise. 
He told me that he had resolved to prevent the 
White people from spreading any further up the valley 
of the Hutt, as it belonged to him, and he had not 
been paid for it. I rather laughed at this at first, as 
I did not see how he could stop it. I knew that he 
had never visited Port Nicholson, because he was still 
afraid of \he Ngatiawa, whom he had so often threatened 
to invade. Frequently when I had pressed him to 
pay us a visit there, to come to " Wide-awake's" house, 
and make acquaintance with the rangatira or "chiefs" 
of the White people, he had answered snappishly, that 
he had nothing to do with the White people at Poniki^ 
and that if he were to go the natives would all say he 
had gone to beg. 
He now told me that he had sent a number of his 
people over to clear land and settle in the Hutt, and 
that " Dog's Ear," or Taringa Kurt, from Kai ff^ara 
JVara, had agreed to go and join them in this object. 
I was somewhat startled to hear that the obstruction 
was likely to begin so near home from a totally new 
quarter, and hardly believed what he told me. 
