Repeated cases of theft have been committed at the settlement, by natives who escaped the vigilance of the police, and found their way to Pukehika; where a certain degree of dissatisfaction still exists. With the aid of the Chiefs, I apprehended the most notorious of those characters, and caused them to be brought to the Resident Magistrate's Court, where they have undergone their several sentences. From the evidence adduced by the natives, it appears that they were encouraged by a European, who is in gaol on a charge of sheep-stealing, - to commit these depredations, and there is reason, to believe, from their having frequently associated with this man, that such has been the case. The houses on a Native Reserve fronting the