expended by them, in the purchase of thirty horses, agricultural implements, a variety of different articles, including clothing, - of which they very much needed a supply. The Deed of Sale, with its translation, is herewith forwarded, in which it will be perceived the terms of payment are inserted, as authorised in your letter of the 25th. ult., that is, that the total purchase money should be two thousand five hundred pounds. One thousand pounds of the said amount to be immediately paid in three subsequent equal annual instalments, falling due on the 15th. day of May in each year. Attached to the Deed, there is a plan, showing the probable extent of the purchase, and the position of the Native Reserves. A more accurate map will be furnished when Mr. Parke has completed a contemplated survey of the Interior of the Rangitikei river. From the desire of the natives to possess the whole of the land between the Turakina and Wangaehu rivers, I considered it advisable to acquiesce in their wishes, as the place is peculiarly adapted, from its well defined natural boundaries, for a Reserve; and, from its extent, will also render it a sufficient and desirable situation for the eventual settlement of the whole tribe. There are already several villages, and native cultivations on this Reserve and the Chief of Turakina informs me that in the course of a few years, he will dispose of the Turakina Reserve of eight hundred acres, as he intends, at my suggestion, to make immediate preparations to settle between the rivers. The right of eel-fishing, in such places as may not be drained by European settlers; the village and cultivations including sixteen hundred acres of land at Parewanui; Kawana Hakeki's burial ground; fifty acres near some fishing lagoons, (coloured red on the map); the right of cultivation till March, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, on some spots of land, opposite the Awahou, and a similar right for a period of three years, on two places on the North bank of the Wangaehu, - comprehend the whole of the Native Reserves within the purchase, and specified in the Deed of Sale; which further provides that the Government have a right of constructing a public road or roads through all the Native Reserves. Mr. Park, whose experience as a surveyor rendered him most efficient in discharging his duties, is at present engaged in making maps for the natives; which, with copies of the Deed, I shall leave with the Chiefs as records of reference, in which the arrangements now concluded, are detailed. The Ngatiapa are as yet a rude uncultivated race, whose improvement as a tribe has hitherto been much neglected. Consequently