Enclosure No. 9. Te Rangikupua, an old Native Chief from Port Nicholson, who had some potatoes in a pit at his plantation,- some of which were destroyed by a Mr. Shaw's cattle; and others of them stolen by Europeans,- against whom I could not get sufficiently clear evidence to lay an information against then with the Police Magistrate. I used every endeavour to find proof against the parties who committed the theft; and recommended the Chief to watch his potatoes; and if he found the Europeans taking any of them, to bring them to the settlement, and place them in charge of the Chief Constable. In this they have not been successful; and the native has been a loser of all his seed potatoes, and what he had to live on throughout the Summer. Being a very hard case, I advanced him a small remuneration of 7/-'s worth of print and tobacco for his