[Mr. Richmond.] Will you tell this House whether you think it would be well to stop supplies going to disaffected tribes, and to stop the purchase from such tribes of their produce, and to compel European traders to leave the districts inhabited by such tribes?

He tika. He kupu tuturu naku tenei, kia tutakina;mana e mahi nei ma te iwi tutu; ko te hokohoko me tutaki. Me i pa tana ringaringa ki te whawhai Pakeha, katahi ka tika te tutaki. E tika ana, no te mea i takahia tera tutu whawhai i te Kawanatanga.

It would be well. This is a fixed word of mine, that it should be stopped; let the disaffected tribes see about it; let trade also be stopped. If their hand took part in fighting against the Pakeha, then it would be right to stop supplies. It is right, because those turbulent fighters trampled upon the Government.

Do you think that stopping trade with tribes hostile to the Government would make them wish for peace, or would it make them more hostile?

Ki ahau, purua nga taonga. Akuanei, ka purua te taonga, kahore he turanga mo te whawhai.

I say stop trade. If trade is stopped, there would be nothing for a war to stand upon.

[Mr. C. H. Brown.] Would the tribe who were forbidden to trade, receive supplies from neighbouring tribes who were not forbidden to trade?

Kei te whakawa te tikanga mo tera. Ki te mea ka aroha au ki aku whanaunga ki roto i te whawhai, ma te whakawa te tikanga.

The Court would have to deal with that. If I show love for my relatives in the war, that would he for the Court to see to.

If tribes permitted to trade, supplied tribes forbidden to trade, do you think that they would charge enormous prices for their goods? or do you think that out of friendly feeling they would be content with a moderate profit on what they themselves had given for those goods?

Ekore tena e taea e ahau—e apopo te utu.

That I cannot answer,-I will answer it to-morrow.