of which I enclose a copy, and the remaining balance of Fifty Pounds, (£50), to be paid over to them on the fourteenth day of May, Eighteen Hundred and forty-eight, 1848 twelve months after the receipt of the first instalment, the greater portion of which has been judiciously expended by them in the purchase of cattle. That there should be as little deviation as possible from Your Excellency's instructions to extend the payments over three years, and also to obtain a patch not comprised within the present purchase, though naturally connected by the river boundary with the present purchase, I have promised the natives that a third instalment of Fifty Pounds, £50, should be paid them in May 1849, conditionally that within that time they will abandon all their claims and cultivations thereon, to which proposal there is every probability of their acceding. Mr. Carrigton, with a party of natives, and occasionally assisted by the Police, is engaged with the survey of a tract of land owned by the same tribe near the Sugar Loaves, adjoining the Block of 60,000 acres awarded by Mr. Spain to the Company. On this land, the Puketapu tribe have for some years cultivated; but were recently warned to leave, by those of Taranaki; which some of them have done; and the few that still remain will soon be induced, from their precarious tenure, to follow; and this opens up a valuable outlet for the cattle of the settlers; on which they could not have hitherto grazed, without being in many instances subject to the damages for trespass. Sufficient progress has not as yet been made with this survey to enable me to give an accurate idea of its extent, from the uncertain course of a river that forms its Southern boundary,- six to seven thousand acres being all that are yet laid down. From the extravagant and urgent claims of the natives on the one hand, and the various interests of resident and absentee proprietors within the surveyed limits of the company, on the other,- it is with difficulty I have succeeded in obtaining land from the Ngamotu tribe, of sufficient extent to make permanent provision for themselves, and meet the wants of the Europeans. This difficulty is, however, almost entirely obviated by their having surrendered their claim to a considerable tract of country, 11,531 acres of which are partially surveyed; and out of which 970 acres are reserved for themselves in such situations as are least likely to interfere with the settlers.