falls due for the Rangitikei purchase, on the 15th. inst. I would, at the same time, request that this sum should, if convenient, be furnished to me in bags, each containing £5 in silver, as this would greatly facilitate the distribution of the amount to the different claimants. It may be necessary that the receipts of the natives for this, and the succeeding payments, should be endorsed, or attached to the original Deed; which, if sent to me, I shall afterwards carefully