of natives, and occasionally assisted by the police, is engaged with the survey of a tract of country claimed by the same tribe, adjoining the Southern boundary of the 60,000 acres awarded by Mr. Spain to the Company; but as yet the survey has not sufficiently progressed to enable me to form an acurate idea of the extent of the purchase, from the uncertain course of a river that forms its Southern boundary. I have etc., etc., etc., (Signed) Donald McLean. Inspector of Police. To:- The Honourable The Colonial Secretary Auckland. The difference in the order of dates is accounted for by this letter not being inserted here till the date of its transmission. See Prirate Despatch Book. (Signed) D. McL. Taranaki. New Plymouth. 9th. August 1847. Sir, With my letter of the 18th. of June last, I had the honour to transmit to you a copy of the Deed entered into, and concluded, with the Taranaki natives, for a small block of land South of the Sugar Loaf Islands; and herewith I beg to submit, for the approval of His Excellency, a Statement of the arrangements made with the Ngamotu tribe, for a tract of land surrendered by them, with a copy and translation of the Deed prepared for their signatures. From this last-mentioned tract, estimated by Mr. Harris, the Surveyor, to contain Ten thousand acres, the following Reserves, have been surveyed and laid out for the natives:- No. 1. at Motorua 200 acres No. 2. at Rotokari 250 acres No. 3. at Waiwaikai 460 acres No. 4. at Waiwaikai 50 acres Total Estimate 960 acres Reserve No. 1 on the enclosed map of the purchase includes 56 acres of the Estate claimed by the late Richard Barrett, which has been cultivated, and in the possession and occupation of the