manners and customs would be every way suited to the work. He is a splendid linguist and is generally liked by the natives -- his salary to keep him from starving should be £200 with £25 for travelling allowance -- Will you favorably consider this. I propose to give Booth the whole of this end of the Island -- but not to make him an Interpreter of the Court. This will impose a good deal of extra work upon him in as much as he will have to write a sort of Tribal history as connected with the principal blocks of land. I propose proclaiming the whole of Middle Island as one District with Mr. A. Mackay District Officer -- I propose also defining -- one District between Auckland and the Northern District -- one District at Thames to include Waikato, and one District Bay of Plenty to extend to