crop and recrop the channel. It would be difficult to find a more pleasant spot for fishing shooting yachting than Kawau the Island has 4 beautiful barbors with deep water sufficient in one of them the middle harbour to float the Great Eastern and run a plank from her side to the shore, and in this harbour the smelting operations of the Kawau copper mining company were carried on, the one being taken from the Southern harbour. Sir George Greys residence is the