formidable tribe has been effected, with a comparatively small sum of money. Taken in view with the payments the Ngatitias received for their large tracts of land, and which the Ngamotu natives allege ahs been given to them, from fear more than actual right to the country, without considering the immensity of the district they have disposed of it at a rate of 2½d. per acre, when Taranaki land has been paid for (taking the Company's payments into consideration) at as high as 2/- per acre, and even more. The importance of this settlement is not only to be considered in connection with the land to which we hereby acquire an undoubted title; but also permits setting