and fifty. There is one European settler, (a Mr. Aubry) living at Waitara; who is considered by the natives as living on sufferance. They have not shown any desire to remove him from there. 2nd. Waiongana. This land is occupied by fifteen natives of the Pukitapu tribe; two of whom have received a share of the payment given by the New Zealand Company for land; and have been desirous to make compensation in land for the goods they have received. One of them, an old man named Hamahona, is willing that the Europeans, - towards whom he has always shewn himself friendly, - should possess all the land he owns. He says, - "Having no children to inherit my lands, I wish the Europeans, who have always been my friends, to possess them."