The various interests that have grown up within the last two years in the shape of purchases of land and leases of runs on which improvements have been made must necessarily interfere to prevent any equitable adjustment of outstanding claims. The decision of the Committee of the House of Representatives which precluded the Settlers of the East Coast from expecting compensation for their losses while similar claims in other parts of the Island have been fully recognised has occasioned fresh difficulties by inducing some of those settlers to appeal direct to the Natives for compensation in land for such losses. In fact the whole of the East Coast question which could have been at one time so easily settled