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the stream near my house. AVliile doing so, the Natives on the opposite side shook the plank and caused him to fall into the stream. At the same instant I saw Mr. A 7olkner hoisted up to a willow tree. After being suspended for about two minutes he was lowered, and I saw Kereopa go up and shoot him through the body ;he was then run up again with a jerk. A great many Natives had hold of the rope, and ran the noose up into the block several times with a jerk. When Eauapia heard the gun he knew he was too late, and he came back to the house. In about a quarter of an hour I saw them take Mr. Volkner's body down and it was then carried to the Protestant Chapel. While this was going on, the Ngatiawa Chief Hiki, the Chief of the Roman Catholic party at Opotiiri, remained in his pah. AVerapaka forbid them to go and see Mr. Volkner put to death. His orders were " Kaua c haere kite titiro ite mate oTe AVakaua. Tukua ma tona iwi ma to Mihanare (the Protestant party) c whakamate engari kia mate katahi ka haere koutou kite titiro." These orders were obeyed. The Ngatirua, the Soman Catholic Natives, took no part in putting Mr. A'olkner to death. After Mr. A'olkner was dead, Kereopa went to Hiki telling him to come and see. Hiki asked him " Kua mate ?" Koreopa replied "Ac ka ora ahau akiranei i ona karu." Hiki and all his people, the Ngatirua, then went to the chapel. Kereopa then said to Hiki I have killed him, now you cut his head off. Hiki did this, and Kereopa then called on all the hapus, men, women and children of Nguatuahine, Ngaitama, Ngatipatu, Te Puirakau Ngatira and all the hapus to come and taste Mr. A'olkncr's blood. AVerapoaka would not allow the Ngatiruas to do this, but all the others did it. Kereopa then took up the head, scooped out the eyes with his fingers and swallowed them. My wife, who is a Ngatirua woman, saw what I have now related and told me. She went with the others to see Mr. A'olkner after he was dead. Kereopa went away immediately after this (the same day) to the place whence he had been fetched after the arrival of the " Eclipse " and waited there for Patara's return. He sent off a messenger with a letter to Patara to tell him what he had done, and Patara arrived at Opotiki the same evening. Before Kereopa went away he left orders to take all the Pakehas and put them in the " wharc herehere." AYe were accordingly all taken to Hooper's house and tied. About an hour afterwards one of Kereopa's party named Tatute, a " Tiu," hearing what had been done came to us. He cut the ropes with which we were tied, saying, " There is a time to bind and a time to loose." Rura is before RiJci. Patara is Rura. Kereopa is but Riki, but he is trying to make himself the big man. Patara did not give orders to confine the white men and who is Kereopa ? AVheir Patara arrived he called the people together and said, " This is Kereopa's work, not mine. Kereopa is a Ngatiwhakane man. 'He aroha mona ki tona iwi i whawhai nei koutou i Waihi mo kona tenei whakakekenga toto kite rua o Opotiki hei kukuma i nga Pakeha ki konei hei patu i a koutou.'" He said also I will send and fetch him that we may have it out here (kia whawhai ai mana). He sent three letters to Kereopa telling him to come back to Opotiki, but Kereopa did not come. At last Patara said "If he will not come I will go to him," and he started. As soon as Kereopa heard ho was coming he was oft' to Turanga and Patara followed him. He said he wished to prevent his killing Bishop AVilliams. The above statement was made before Mr. Commissioner Smith at Maketu. J. Mackay, Jun. Civil Commissioner. Enclosure 2 to No. 7» MEMORANDUM OF A STATEMENT MADE BY MR. A. AGASSIZ, OF OPOTIKI, RESPECTING KEREOPa'3 PROCEEDINGS, AND THE MURDER OF MR. JAMES FULLOON, ETC. I am a member of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, London, and resided at Opotiki, where I have been carrying on business as a storekeeper. I have just left Opotiki on account of the lawless state of the Natives. Things appeared getting worse every day, and if I had remained longer would have been killed. I was at Opotiiri when the Eev. Mr. A'olkner was murdered, and had lived there since and up to the present time. I remained there because I had a quantity of goods which I could not afford to lose. I have now left produce and goods to the value of six hundred pounds (£600), also ten (10) horses, one (1) working bullock, and five (5) cows. All the murderers of Mr. A'olkner are at present at Opotiki. They have been fighting the Queen's Nath es at Te AVhaiti since Arama Karaka's retreat at Tarawera. Kereopa informed me that they had killed 400 Queenites, he losing two (2) men only. These latter belong to the TJrewera of AVaiinana. The fanatics had in their possession the heads of four (4) Native chiefs, the eyes of which had been swallowed by Kereopa. They had also Mr. A'olkner's head with them. Kereopa is reported to have bitten a piece out of a dead maori and eaten it uncooked. The Opotiki Natives have not made any pahs or fortifications. They say if any soldiers came their god will defend them. They instance the retreat of the crew of H.M.S, "Eclipse" .as one of the interpositions of their god in their behalf. That steamer had landed several soldiers ; they marched up to a pa occupied by 12 natives, and they were frightened by the god and ran away. (In ansicer to a question), I believe the number of Natives in that pa is correctly stated. A sailor was shot by his own comrades. The Natives assert they never fired a shot on the night "when the sailors landed ; the firing was all done by the Pakeha. They found on the beach some

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PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE MURDER OE THE REV. CARL