ready, and accompanied me. This night we slept at Hari Hari. In the morning we christened a young child that had been very ill. After the Rev. gentleman had performed the christening, he gave a beautiful and appropriate lecture on the uncertainty of life. On Tuesday we arrived at the Company's settlement, Ruatoki. On the 31st. accompanied by Mr. Turton and Mr. Whitely, visited the native Chief Katatori, at Mangaraka. On the 1st. visited the natives at and about the settlement, urging them to be in readiness for His Excellency, the Governor's arrival among them, to hear their several complaints. On the 2nd. His Excellency the Governor arrived and helf a meeting with the Europeans at the Devon Hotel, Mr. Flight acting as Chairman of the Deputation. Attended Mr. Boland's church. His Lordship the Bishop preached the forenoon sermon. His Excellency held a public meeting at the Police Office, where the natives in the neighbourhood and a tribe from Waikato, with the native Chief Te Pakau attended, as well as most of the European settlers. The Minutes of what took place taken by Private Secretary. A deputation waited on the Governor, before taking his departure. On this occasion, the Governor wished me to make enquiries into the state of the disputed lands, till his return. Visited Capt. King, the Police Magistrate, when a Memorandum was handed to me by that gentleman, of a complaint brought to him, by a European named Sutton, against a native, Te Iwitutua, for having taken 3 blankets, 1 fustian coat, 1 bed-cover, 1 shirt, and 3/4 cwt. of pork. Capt. King also referred a letter of Messrs. St. George's to me, complaining against natives at Waitara. I hired a horse from Dr. St. George, for 5/6 per diem, and proceeded to Waitara, to make enquiries into the charges brought against natives,