provisions been superceded by subsequent enactment. I am convinced therefore that my application is quite legal, and within the power of the Comr. to grant it. All is quiet and dull up here. Old Hutana and Wi Whiri Whiri of Waipukurau are bothering about certain imaginary claims at the top of Ruahine, for wh. each expects to get £250; their claims are within the Block sold by Paraone known as the "Ruahine Bush Block" for £3000, and they come down on the Govt. in the usual way because they didn't get as much as they thought they shd. have had at the division of the money, wh. you may remember took place at Wakatu just before the fighting when there were a good many people present, and the cash was not long in disappearing