Enclosure 7 in a Despatch from Governor Sir George Grey, K.C. B., to the Right Hon, the Duke of Buckingham. No. 44, 6th August, 1867.

Letter from Mr. Puckey to Mr. Rolleston.

"M. R. Rolleston,—

"With reference to the account of the interview between His Excellency the Governor and Parakaia Te Pouepa, appended hereto, I beg to state, that when it first came under my notice, I was under the impression that it must have been some other interview, and not the one at which I interpreted; nor was it until I saw the words, 'the Governor then turned to Puckey,' (the interpreter), that it became apparent to me it must be an account of the meeting at which I was present, though such an account as must give any one not there an exceedingly wrong impression of what took place.