mana such for instance, as at Mr. Cookes farm at Te Hua where an old savage mustered a large force, felled the Timber and cultivated the soil for years afterwards. This was the time when the Natives said "The News were returning to Jerusalem" at any rate the Maoris came back in great numbers and took actual possession I may say of the entire district thereby producing the melancholy state of affairs in connection with the land question in Taranaki, when the settlers became exasperated and desponding and their industry entirely paralized. Then came Mr. Commissioner Spain who awarded 60,000 acres to the Company for some reason within the lines first cut by the Surveyors of the Company. Subsequently in 1844 the late Governor Fitzroy visited New Plymouth and gave back the entire district to the Maoris, which at once and for ever annulled the arrangements by which the settlement was originally founded. I have no desire to disparage when I point to the error of, the punchase of the Company which very probably was conducted without a knowledge of the Natives and their custom of