pass, said to be a short and easy route into the valley of the Wairarapa. Should the Company's Agent coincide in the views expressed by the Council, on this point, I will at once give Mr. McLean the necessary instructions; or I shall be glad to receive from Mr. Fox, any other suggestions which he may consider more desirable. I cannot close this communication without bringing under Mr. Fox's notice, that in your letter of the 13th. current, no statement was made as might be inferred from Mr. Fox's reply, that the Governor-in-Chief had to put the Native Land Purchase Ordinance in force; but simply a statement to the effect that I had received from him no specific instructions on the subject; and that in certain instances in the Manawatu neighbourhood, His