purchase the lands from which these benefits are derived. This place and the Wairarapa are yielding such handsome annual payments to the natives, which is entirely under their own control, without the interposition of any Government, but that of the chief. So that no trifling consideration would induce them to relimquish their rights in favour of the Government, without still claiming the privelege of receiving the pittance allowed them by the settlers. There are about 75 tons of wheat grown by the natives on this river, for which they will get a very handsome