the Mangore as the other, and endeavor to conclude the purchase at once, in order that some land might be immediately available for the settlers, and leave the completion of the survey for more favorable weather. I found during my absence that Mr.Carrington had surveyed the Waiwakaiho reserve of 460 acres and also laid out a section of 50 acres distinct from the general reserve. Mapping, copying and reducing plans now occupied my time, till the weather set in more favorable, when I commenced the Sugar loaf line and cut as far as the Mangore River, surveying down the River towards the part where I had left off and a short distance up when it divides and becoming shallower might he surveyed up its bed easily - On mapping this work I found that a considerable bend must be made from its former direction so as to render it impossible without completing its survey to ascertain with anything like accuracy the number of acres included in the block, but at a rough calculation