. I do not suppose that a smaller sum than I have mentioned for the first instalment would satisfy the different claimants, about five hundred in number, who have contracted debts in anticipation of receiving a large amount similar to what they are aware has been recently offered for a less extensive district, at the Wairarapa. Many other natives at the Manawatu, and elsewhere, who are at present tenacious of parting with their land, will be more readily influenced to do so if they find the Ngatiapas are satisfied with their first payment. . From