Copy. New Plymouth. 26th. August 1844. Sir, I have the honor to acquaint you that during His Excellency the Governor's visit to this place, he desired me to obtain what information I could, relative to the Land claimed by the New Zealand Company; and which claims are now disputed by the native owners thereof. In pursuance of which I proceeded, on the 18th. inst, to the Taniwha and Waitara, - being the Northern boundaries of the New Zealand Company's claims to land in this District. Having visited the natives at their different Pahs in that neighbourhood; and having afterwards had several of them collected together at the Waitara river, I made enquiries of them as to whether the lands there had been sold to the Company. They informed me that they had never consented to a sale of any portions of their lands in that neighbourhood. and further stated that the few natives who assumed the right of sale to those lands, were not the owners thereof, but merely adduced a claim there to from having had two relatives killed and buried there, during some engagement with their rival tribes, the Waikates. It is evident that there were fifteen natives residing on the Waitara river at the time the sale was effected; who were unacquainted with it till some