of the Judge because he is appointed by the Queen as a just man and decides without favour or partiality. It is quite true that it would not be possible to bring many of your tribal claims before the Supreme Court in N.Z. but you might establish some system among yourselves which wd. answer the same purpose. In Hindustan when men dispute about land or other matters of this description each party selects two persons to act as their assessors and these assessors meet and elect one more who must belong to neither party. The five then enquire into the question in dispute and give their decision which no one presumes to dispute. Now if two tribes or two Chiefs of different tribes had a dispute why should they not follow this example each tribe might select two from its own body and these four might invite a Chief of name and credit belonging to some distant tribes who had no connection with either of them. Then before any decision is given both the contending tribes should solemnly engage to abide by the decision.