Wellington 12th. April 1848. Sir, I beg to inform your Excellency that there is a sum of One hundred pounds (£100) due to the absentee natives of the Ngamotu tribe; which was promised to them by Governor Fitz Roy, as their share of compensation for the block of three thousand five hundred acres purchased at New Plymouth in 1844. This sum, the absentee natives object to receive for their claims, unless they also receive an instalment of One hundred and thirty pounds (£130), due on the 11th. of next October, as their share of compensation for the additional block of nine thousand seven hundred and seventy (9770) acres, recently purchased from the resident natives at New Plymouth, and in which they have a large interest. I should therefore submit to your Excellency that as there are several Ngamotu claimants (independent of those who are resident at Wellington) at present collected here from Arapaoa and other parts of Cook Strait, in consequence of the Waikanae migration to Taranaki, that a most favourable opportunity is offered for settling their claims, and finally extinguishing their rights and those of the Wellington natives to the lands at Ngamotu, by paying them the One hundred pounds, together with the