that a person in constant communication with the Natives on the part of the Government should be under a certain degree of discipline and superintendance I should respectfully take the liberty of suggesting to your Excellency that the person selected for such a situation be place in connexion with the Armed Police establishment to be at all times available for the Resident Magistrates court superintending road parties of Natives when employed by Govt., and in my absence from Taranaki to collect reports of Native proceedings and such other matters as it might be essential to acquaint Capt. King with for Your Excellencys information. I have the honor to remain, Sir, Your Excellencys most obt. humble servt., (Signed) Donald McLean, Inspector of Police. His Excellency, George Grey, K.C.B., Governor in Chief. Wellington, Decr. 13th, 1848. Sir, I have the honor to bring under your Excellencys notice that it would be highly advantageous to the European and Native inhabitants of New Plymouth to have a sum of money expended in opening a public road towards Mount Egmont through the blocks of land that have been acquired by purchase under your Excellencys instructions from the Ngamotu and Taranaki tribes. On these lands the settlers are fast locating themselves and they find that the farther they retreat towards the interior mountain ranges the more fertile the soil becomes. This beautiful district in the neighbourhood of the most peaceable Ngatiawa tribes promises to become numerously inhabited by an industrious and persevering class of settlers, if a road is formed to explore the country so as to enable them to select their lands in the most available parts of it. It will also be the means of consolidating the settlement by preventing the Europeans from scattering over the face of a country where many of the