land is taken by the Governor;' I replied, - ''By what means is it taken?' The white people answered, - 'By the Flag Staff, which stands at Maike!''' (See Blue Book 1845.) No uneasiness, however, was occasioned to the natives by the old land purchases, made before the Government was established; for Mr. Shortland, in a letter to Lord Stanley, shewing that the disturbances at the South