about the main boundary easily overcome the Surveyor and his party will have the line cut by 11 A.M. tomorrow after which they come here and will commence on the other side of the river. There are 7 native plantations of about 5 to 6 acres in each that are only of 2 to 4 years standing which may probably interfere with some surveyed sections. The piece of waste land not surveyed transferred to the natives will be a great boon to them on this place I met several pits where kumaras have been kept by forefathers of these tribes. "Kawahiroas's can we wonder when all tribes have strong prejudices in favour of the lands of their progenitors that the New Zealanders should be excepted or can we who are now a civilised people deprive those over whom we may have influence to forego their old prejudices when we are aware that the romans and other advanced in civilisation have rebuilt their towns and villages that were laid waste to the ground by sudden catastrophies and eruptions of nature such as the bursting of active volcanoes at Pompei Herculaneum near Vesuvius these places have after many severe inundations of hot mud and lava destroying towns villages and country seats been again rebuilt more especially that of Torre del Greco which tho offered by