mentioned Reserve, I beg to remind you that it was not untill the 11th October 1847 that the purchase was completed and the Deed signed on the 14 of that month I wrote to M.McLean for information as to the transfer of the Block to the New Zealand Company, and on the same day that Gentleman replied acquainting me that the reserves made for the natives were coloured pink on the Government map of the Block on the next day namely 15 Octr. a meeting of purchasers for selection took place and Mr.McLean lent me the Government map shewing these reserves which in your presence was submitted to the Purchasers, upon that plan the two sections in question were marked as reserved for the Natives to the best of my recollection they were not marked in the Deed which I witnessed - and I certainly did not then or since either directly or indirectly receive the slightest notice of any intention to reserve them, the single allusion to these sections which has passed between the Government and