to convince the old men particularly, that it must be abandoned to give place to better and more permanent arrangements. I conceive that the Government is pledged to the chief's and tribes who have already sold their land as well as in vindicating the law of the country to put an end to such a system and I am really glad that it has been already checked in this Province to the extent of Seven hundred and fifty pounds a year. I have witnessed even during my short stay here some of the evils of this system, at Mr.Kellys I observed that the natives regarded him in his own house as a mere tenant on sufferance that could be at any moment ejected, one of his servants was struck by an insolent native having no claim to the place because he was prevented from taking all the food he wished out of the kitchen. At Mr.Gillies' station where I am now stopping the Chief Ngatueri from a caution by Gillies to some of his natives not to break his mill, with which they were grinding, was violently attacked and knocked down by that chief and ordered to move off the premises that night with all his family goods and chattels leaving the house for his