their own attempts have been, either to extend our borders, or to introduce any means, except in theory, calculated to have the effect of establishing law and order among the New Zea- -land tribes. Mr. McLean's services were greatly appreciated by all the old settlers. We owe the settlement of the complicated claims of the New Zealand Company at Whanganui, and elsewhere, to his untiring energy; at a time when a settlement of that question had been given up as hopeless. The Wairarapa, occupied by squatters, would, in all probability, have remained in the hands of the native proprietors till now, had it not been for his efforts. Hawke's Bay would certainly never become an English province, from the opposition evinced by the natives, to the sale of their land, if Mr. McLean had not exerted himself to secure it for systematic colonisation; and it