I do myself the honour to furnish you with the following information, obtained during my recent visit to Whanganui, respecting the hostile movements of Heuheu, the principal chief of Taupo, who, with Taonui and Potomo, chiefs of Waikato, came with several of their followers to that settlement early in January last. Before I relate the various incidents which occurred, I would first direct page 124your attention to the causes which principally influenced Heuheu's proceedings, who came by invitation of an old chief belonging to that place, named Turoa, a relative of his who had had a misunderstanding with some of the Whanganui Natives about the lands sold there to the New Zealand Company, and for which a sum of money, awarded by Mr. Spain, was in expectation of being paid. Turoa, fearing he would not get a large share of the payment, had written to Heuheu to come to his assistance, stating that a fair opportunity offered to surprise Ihupuku, the Waitotara pa, twenty miles north of Whanganui, inhabited by the Ngaraurus, and avenge the death of some of the Taupos who had been slain there during an engagement in which they were defeated.