under the Waste Lands regulations of the Province; and of this there seems little hope, as the Provincial Authorities have declined to take the Confiscated Lands subject to the claims upon them. I was induced to agree to the arbitration in the belief that I would be able to get a sheep run for my son at Poverty Bay - But must now look out for what it is possible to get out of the Lands remaining unsold by the Provincial Government - I have just heard that there is a block of land