of the adjustment of the question. I shall, if the Company's Agent approves of the recommendations, be prepared to pursue the course advised by the Executive Council, - subject of course, to any directions which may be received from the Governor-in-Chief. The Council has advised that Mr. McLean should be employed, if possible, in preference to any other Commissioner; and that they consider as the Manawatu question may probably occupy some time, and it would not be necessary for Mr. McLean to be always on the spot, that that Officer may undertake the two negotiations contemporaneously, by passing from one district to another, as occasion may render advisable; through the Rangitikei