There are two or three other matters at Wainuioru, at Vallance's and a few others that have yet to be arranged, but I look upon these as minor affairs. The 5 per cents is a very sore point and one on which I have been assailed by every Maori I have met. Dan especially is in a great fog about his and he has been charged with sums that he does not remember nor admit receiving. He is writing to you about them. Swainson has been makingup the a/cs and I don't think what he has done has tended to clear up matters much. Old Wereta claims a promise of yours to give him a piece of land in the block that I have just been settling at Wainuioru. Hoera also says he has a written promise of a piece also. I have told them both that they must apply to the Govr. as I have no power to give back the Queen's land, nor Featherston either. They also want a general reserve out of the Block, but I have given them the same answer about that. All manner of claims have