Taranaki. New Plymouth. 1st. November 1847. Sir, Herewith I have the honour to enclose, in duplicate, an Account current, shewing the amount paid by me to labourers employed in July and August, on the Survey, amounting to, as per Acquittances forwarded to your office, in September last, to seventeen pounds and thirteen shillings (£17.13.0) I have the honour to be etc., etc., etc., (Signed) Donald McLean Inspector of Police. To:- Capt. H. King R.N. Sub- Treasurer. Taranaki. New Plymouth 1st. November 1847. Sir, I beg to forward to your office, the accompanying vouchers for payments made to labourers employed on the Survey, amounting as per enclosed Accounts current for the month of September and October, to Two pounds, six shillings and sixpence, leaving a balance due to you of one sixpence out of the last advance with which I was favoured out of the Survey Department. I have the honour to remain Sir, (Signed) Donald McLean. To:- Capt. H. King R.N. Sub-Treasurer. Taranaki. New Plymouth 1st. November 1847. Sir, Herewith I beg to transmit to your office the enclosed Accounts of Messrs. Carrington and Harris, shewing the respective sums to which they are entitled for the periods they have been employed surveying, in the months of September and October last. I have etc., etc., etc., (Signed) Donald McLean. Inspector of Police. To:- Capt. H. King R.N. Sub-Treasurer. etc., etc., etc., Taranaki. New Plymouth December 2nd, 1847. (1st. November ?) Sir, I beg to inform you that I have enquired into the claim alluded to by "Te Rangihaeata" in his letter to His Excellency the Governor, referred to you by Mr. Secretary Symonds; and find that he owns a small portion of land near "Tataraimaka. in the Block obtained from the Taranaki natives in May last, for which a brother of his, Pumipi, and a half-sister named Ekia, have received a portion of the first instalment given for that purchase I therefore conceive that Rangihaeata's claim will be considered by his relations