Native meeting about 600 present. His. Exc. the Lt. Gov. told the Natives through me that he had merely come there to see them as a visitor not to talk about their land but if they desired to dispose of the lands they did not require for their own use that I was fully empowered to negotiate for them. He should be glad to see them at Wellington and to answer any question they might have to ask him respecting the intentions of the Govt. I then told them that I intended proceeding