that his tribe should occupy both sides of the river, where their claims were laid originally, and still existed, and descended to them individually and collectively. Called on Colonel Wakefield. Found him father dry and dissatisfied about the native reserves made at New Plymouth, and seemed to think that Governor's proceedings there did not in the slightest promote the good of settlement; and that the large blocks acquired were not in reality beneficial to them, as such vast reserves were made in them. I endeavoured to demonstrate that he was entirely under a false impression respecting the reserves; that they were necessary, and that the purchase he complained of in the Grey block, if so utterly valueless, was mostly surveyed by the Company for settlers. He then evidently began to change his tone, and removed his ground to a variety of other indifferent subjects. He is favourable to relinquishing the North banks of the Waitara, but strongly opposed to New Plymouth falling