narrowed when the Grey Block was purchased from the natives! Mr. Wm. Bayley claiming the whole width, and about some Town allotments in Captain Fitz Roy's N.A.'s. These things I only mention as shewing the desperate straits the originators of the movement were put to connect you by hook or by crook with something, even although it might be an arrangement made in the name of Governor Fitz Roy or Grey. Mr. Chilman took a most unfortunate step for himself, when he moved in the affair of the swamp. I think I told you that evidence in this case was almost precluded by the manner in which the first Summons to witnesses was worded. The second reference from Auckland compelled an alteration in this respect, by allowing the fullest opportunity to those who could give evidence to do so. That which I brought forward, traced the claim from the year