Superintendence of a Miss Corney(?) The progress the children are making is highly satisfactory. There is sometimes about 30 scholars, girls and boys from 4 to 8 years of age. After dinner we walked out to the Hot Springs, and picked up several specimens of wood that had undergone a process of petrification. It was so heavy and raining that we could not see any distance. The plains of Rotorua that I discerned are barren and valueless. Mr. Chapman informed me there was a very rich sub-soil, but so deep as not to be available in ploughing. From this gentleman I had some interesting accounts of Hikairo, the native chief; also a short history of the Ngapukiau tribe, who, about 300 in number, still continue heathens.