considerable benefit accrued to their employer from a Legal Union with his concubine, took it into their heads to follow his example, one of them a man of the name of Bandy married a woman he had been previously keeping belonging to the Pukitappu tribe, another called Crawley took a girl, native of Nga Aitene, in the neighbourhood of Otago; there is a person also named Robert Sinclair at Maturoa who is living with a female of Nga Tiappa tribe, Manawatu, but not legally married to her - All these men are benefitted in a greater or less degree by these connexions, their partners besides supplying them with Pork and potatoes manage the interior of the domestic establishment equally as well as European women and the offspring from the two races are as fine a specimen of half castes as can be seen. I cannot dismiss the subject of Mr. Barrett and his party without acknowledging the readiness with which Mr. Barrett afforded me information on every required topic, and before we parted he requested me to assure you that he should always feel the greatest pleasure in rendering you any assistance that lay in his power - In reference to the cultivations, those in the immediate neighbourhood of Moturoa are few belonging to Europeans, this part of the settlement not being in the block purchased by Government will account for the small proportion of land broken up. Mr. Barretts farm is the only one of any consequence - proceeding inland from Muturoa in a S.E. direction by a good road there is a beautiful spot known as Barretts Lagoon, it has even now in its natural state