for the public good, suppose the sum allowed, is disposed of thus:- Rawiri 32 Honi 32 Hakopa 32 Taumati Waka 20 Taumata 20 Te Ngahuru 20 Cook 65 (Should be included in Harbour Dept.) Heale 65 (an old Servant and a large family, most of them getting their own living.) Medland 50 Stewart 50 Newsham 418 102 balance for disposal £500 sum allowed. Paneta 32 Tahana 20 European 50 suggested appropriation of balance. The Report for last fortnight is scanty; but the fact is I have been entirely taken up with small native cases, which do not appear, because scarcely worth entering, although they take time to arrange. Toheroa's letter, I think, means nothing; and for the good he has done here, it would have been better if he had remained away. At first he promised well, but somehow