| [p.1] | Almanac |
| Notice giving publication and subscription details. | |
| Notice that subscriptions are due. | |
| Includes a proverb, and image of a young child who needs feeding. | |
| News from Taranaki | |
| Reports the arrival of the Governor and his soldiers at Taranaki to deal with Wiremu Kīngi's obstruction of the sale of land at Waitara by Te Teira to the Government. | |
| Criticises Kīngi's actions, and maintains that the Governor is there to protect the land surveyors, not to wage war. | |
| pp.1-2 | The Church after Christ |
| Chapter 6 | |
| The period 400 A.D. | |
| Discusses religious movements which practised segregation and the spread of Christianity in the fifth century A.D. | |
| pp.2-3 | A fund-raising committee at Kaiapoi, from Ngāi Te Rangi |
| From Poihipi Te Aorāhui | |
| Reports a Maori church committee meeting held at Kaiapoi to discuss the providing of Maori land and funding for a [CMS] school and church. | |
| Records speeches from Pakeha such as Bishop Harper and James Stack, and Maori such as Hakopa Te Ata-o-Tū and Īhāia Taihewa. Refers to arrangements made for the land to be given and milling of timber. | |
| A gathering at Ngāmotu | |
| From Kipa Ngāmoke. | |
| Reports a Christmas meeting of Maori leaders and their people at Ngāmotu [Taranaki]. Refers to the presence of Rev. Whiteley and to money collected for spread of Gospel. | |
| Comment on the seemingly small sum of money collected at the aforementioned meeting. Fighting suggested as cause of apparent poverty. Warns of God's anger if money is not collected. | |
| pp.3-4 | Letter from Karepa Kerei, Māhoetahi, Taranaki |
| Reports the deaths of his children, wife and brother from various ailments. | |
| Includes a waiata tangi [lament]. | |
| Read the newspapers | |
| From Hoa Aroha [Loving Friend] | |
| Urges Maori readers to preserve their copies of Te Haeata by binding them like a book for the benefit of future generations. | |
| A Biblical parable | |
| John 10:4,5 | |
| Comment on the Parable of the Sheepfold. |