would under judicious management make a profitable homestead. Only 20 acres of the whole reserve have been cultivated by the natives during the last 10 years, nor does it appear likely that the quantity will be materially exceeded, as some of the natives for whom the Reserve was made are dead and others contemplate leaving for Nelson, amongst them Wiremu Kawaho himself. The principal motive, assigned by Poharama and W. Kawaho for wishing to sell the land, is the recent death of the two surviving sons of W. Kawaho. He is now childless and careless