Wellington March 7th 1872 My dear McLean, I enclose for your information copies of telegraphic correspondence with Grindell relative to his proceedings on West Coast. He is as you will perceive strictly enjoined to keepthe Supt. informed of all his proceedings - to obey any directions he may receive from him, to show no anxiety to buy, but to tell the Natives that Govt. is ready to buy any marketable land offered to them at a reasonable rate by persons whose titles have been recognised by the Court, and for this purpose he is to distribute forms of application to all who apply for them, but he is not to attempt to induce anybody to send them in by persuasion. The