pay him before a witness, but that I doubt this satisfying the Treasury. The other Natives who had former claims in the Opako block would know nothing of it, as I have refused to pay ''per acre'' - or to take a conveyance for it, because ''it is confiscated land'' - and I have promised something extra to a few, to make them swallow the confiscation, which they do very well when the pill is gilded at the expense of the others. Lucy Grey did very well for a time and has not, that I am aware of, gone against me since. But the last time I went to see Titokowaru with her, she told me (Blake had been some weeks at Wanganui, Turner says after a Mrs. L.L. Levy that he gave £30 for one night) that Warerata and the Mawhitiwhiti natives, were very vexed with Blake and wanted to take her from him and give her to me. At that time I was on another tack (marriage)