[Translation.]

Friend! Salutations to you. Do you hearken ? I have arrived here, and I have heard that the poles put up by Nepia and the European have been taken down by Wiremu and Tamihana To Whareakaka, and the European sent away. He persisted and persisted on. At last Wiremu said, "if you still persist I will strike you (or kill)." Tamihana then said, "let it end." The white man would not hear; the white man and Maoris still persisted.

If you should receive a letter from the withholders of land do not heed it: their work is to obstruct yours, Mr. Buller's, and your Maori friends. Ended.