rivers, I still consider it might not be objectionable at a future period to grant them one in a situation so well bounded, especially if the Southern bank of the Rangitikei is acquired- and that the natives are not disposed to leave that part of the country, to settle on the general Reserve between the Turakina and Rangitikei rivers. At Parananui and Te Awho Pahs, I classed the natives into Hapus, in the order in which they should receive payment on Monday the 2nd. April, a distance of fifty miles, from where I first sighted that river from the Ngongoranui range. On approaching the coast, the country changed very much in appearance, and the soil is chiefly of a light,