That gentle man will have full justice done to his praise woithy effoits m behalf ot law and oulei, befoie the piesent wai is ended. He had a lai ge meeting of natnes in the to«n of New Plymouth, decl.ned that as British Govcinoi lie would ]iiofcect all of them in then nyhts ; that he had no w ibh to pur chase any of then lands about which they weie ever quai idling, that he would not buy aii3' lands, the title of which was disputed ; but that it any of them were anxious to sell aud could piove their title, they ceitamly should sell , he would piotect them. Immediately Tena offeicd his block of 600 acies at Waitai a, appealing to the assembly as to his l lght to sell, tiny all assented, except "Wircnm Kiugi, the head of the league who, with a few of his people, bat aloof. Te Tena's lepiesentations weio couoboratedby the chief cnmims<nonei, Mr. M'Leau, who knows moie about nntne titles and lights, than any other gentleman in New Zealand. I'cna again urged his oliei, and the Governor, after con sulting with Lhc Cummissionei , and with Ins Execu tive, accepteil it, piovuling that Tena pioved hm title. Tena then jnesented at the feet of his Excel lency a line silky mat as a l atificatum of the agiee ment Kuigi got up m a iage and said — '• Gover noi, jou sha'nt ha\e Wait<na ; it is m my hand; T wont let it go" He was a*-ked, "Was not this piece of land Tena's'" "Yes," said he, "bnthe shan't sell it; Tena has floated the canoe, but I will not let it go to sea "" — and he and his people left the meeting After a delay of nine months, dimng winch Mi. M'Lean, and his i.sn-tant, Mi. Pain-., made dili gent mtpiiiv, theyiepoitel Tuii-. 