request, and commenced at "Patiki waka nui" where "Te Mawai" Horo Kingi, John Williams Ngapara and Kawana required a large tract of land as your Excellency will observe in the accompanying plan, These Chiefs were for the most part present when the boundaries were staked out ''Te Mawai'' and ''Ngapara'' placing the corner stakes themselves. (Enclosure No. 2) Upon this I directed Mr. Wills to survey the Block, who protested against the sections being ceded, having been instructed so to do by the principal Agent of the New Zealand Company. (Enclosure No. 3) This protest I have the honor to transmit, with my answer upon the receipt of which Mr. Wills commenced the survey, whilst I proceeded up the river accompanied by Messrs. McLean and White also Te Mawai Inaua Maketu to visit the Pa of Tunuhaere where many natives of the Pawtakotoko Tribe were collected, where after a very stormy debate they assented to the outer boundary as laid down in the original plan, reserving for themselves certain cultivations which are also marked. I instructed Mr. White to run the outer boundary line, sending with him some influential