land for the present; but I think if the Mokau question is not allowed to drop, that you may go on buying until the place is fit for settlement. It would be a great boon to place all this land in the New Plymouth Province. The Aucklandites, through the Southern Cross, are disposed to be liberal towards us by carrying our boundary to Kawhia. This is as it should be; for what matters it whether the land be colonised from Auckland or New Plymouth, so long as the work is done. The land sale, owing to the nature of the country, will make no show in the Revenue Account in our time, which would prevent the only objection our Province would be likely to raise against another receiving more land than an imaginary boundary gives it. Rogan, to whom I had written by a previous mail, received Major Nugent at Mokau, and saw him off by the beach. From the conversation that ensued between them, Rogan received an impression that the Major did not consider troops necessary here. Our natives are still busy with their pas. One