myself, is contained in a letter from Mr.McLean dated 13th Septr. last where the following words occur "The reserves and cultivations will be more distinctly shown on a map with which you will shortly be furnished, and on which you will perceive that there are two sections chosen by absentees intersecting the Waiwakaiho reserve, the selection of which I should wish you to postpone untill I am instructed by His Excellency as to the disposal of them, I did not think it necessary to notice this at the time, because it was obvious that I could not postpone the selection of land which had been already chosen and also because there was no intimation of any intention to reserve them for the natives, But that letter was written a month before the purchase was concluded. I was never furnished with the map therein alluded to and Mr.McLeans letter of the 14th October when the purchase was concluded contained no allusion whatever to these sections, I therefore protest against their being now at the last moment excepted from the Block, nor can I see the slightest ground for such a reserve being made. Though nominally the purchase comprises 9800 acres there is not one half of that extent as you are aware available for cultivation yet