for immediate settlement, is not extensive. As nearly as I can estimate, the district claim of this tribe does not exceed 12,000 acres. I have sent a private messenger to Rangihaeata, to tell him if he desires to see the Ngatiapa payment, (as he had indirectly expressed a wish of the kind, by a message he sent me), that I should be glad of his presence. His coming, however, is questionable; as I hear he is gone to Porirua. But the invitation will probably moderate his opposition, and afford me an opportunity of doing something with him respecting the Manawatu. There are only two points respecting native Reserves, on which I should respectfully solicit advice from Your Excellency. First, - whether Your Excellency would permit me to recommend, with a view to future purchases, and the protection of settlers locating on the banks of the Rangitikei near the road frequented by natives travelling to Taupo, - to have a right reserved by Government, of retaining two blocks, each containing about 300 or 800 acres of land, for the location of friendly natives, if such a step should be hereafter found advisable. Secondly, - the natives' right to such Reserves being entirely extinguished by the present purchase, it need not be surveyed, excepting at such time and place as Your Excellency approved; and then only apportioned to such natives as would be found most deserving of such indulgence. Hoping, under Your Excellency's important engagements, I may be forgiven for intruding these subjects, I remain, my dear Sir, Your most faithful and obedient servant (Signed) Donald McLean. P.S. It may be desirable to have sections of a hundred acres surveyed at the present ferries, for public houses and paddocks, as public Reserves, with a right of re-selecting such reserves in future, wherever the great line of road through the purchase, connecting the different settlements, may run. (Signed) Donald McLean. To:- His Excellency Lieut. Governor Eyre. Wellington. Wanganui 19th. May 1849. Sir, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st. inst. desiring me to state, for the information of the Auditor General, whether the receipts from the natives, for the sums paid to their account of the Wanganui purchase, are in my possession; and if not, where they are to be found, in order that the Auditor may be enabled to adjust the advance made to me in May 1848. With the exception of Te Mamaku, who was absent during the negotiations, the only receipt which I considered it necessary to take from the Wanganui natives, is that embodied in the final Deed of Sale, in which the principal Chiefs, and the natives, 210 of whom signed that document. acknowledge to have received from me the sum of One Thousand pounds, in full satisfaction for their claims. For the amount of compensation awarded to Mamaku for his claim, I took a distinct receipt from Hamarama, the person deputed by Te Mamaku to represent his interests. A copy of this receipt, with its translation, the original being now in my possession, was duly