This Block is estimated to contain 110,000 acres of land, and comprises Hale's run on the coast, part of Cameron's run, A Sutherland's run, and extending inland to the Wainuiora River, including Smith's run. The Chief Werita, when he offered this block for sale, asked a sum of £3,500 for it. I objected to this sum, as being too high, and proposed that the price should be determined after the extent of the Block was ascertained by survey, and the external boundaries and reserves for the natives marked off. A first instalment of £700 was paid to the natives in October 1853. 157 natives signed the Deed of Sale, as claimants to it. In December 1854 £100 was also paid, and subsequently in January 1855, at the urgent request of the natives, I paid a further sum of £450 on the understanding that the transaction should be final without reference to survey, the reserves for Te Werita having been in the meantime defined. For several years the natives offered no objections to these arrangements; and it was not until a change had taken place in