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Province of Wellington.

District where Date of Extent in Acres. Date of payments made. Dates of payments to be made. Sums Total oi each Tribe from whom purchased. Commissioner Kern arks. situated. Purchase. Description of Land. Sums paid. payable. purchase. negociatiug. I I __ £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Maraekakaho Nov. 20, 1856 3o,oao Plains and hills; agricultural and pastoral Nov. 20,1856 1,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 Ngatikahungunu G. S. Cooper Otaranga April 15,1857 50,000 Chiefly hilly; pastoral land April 15, 1857 1,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 Ngatiteupokoiri Natives for claims on Aorangi, i July 4 1,300 0 0 1,300 0 0 McLean and Cooper f This payment was made to put an end to a quarrel respecting the division of the money previously paid. Te Hapuku has undertaken <j to refund £1000 of this sum out of future sales. — Vide. Chief Commissioner's report, J 14th and 31st July, 1857. i The cost to the Government, is only £300. Otaranga, i> and Maraekakaho Manga a Rangipeke Ruataniwha January 3 and June 29 i 10,000 (■Hilly land, intersected by numel rous small streams; good soil; ( agricultural and pastoral January 3 150 0 0) June 29 500 0 0 j Dec. 31,1856 40 0 0 ) July 13, 1857 3,000 0 0 ] i 650 0 0 >: M f The first payment of £150 was made in Auckland, and represented about 5000 acres. The sale was repudiated by claimants on the spot, and <j it was at last settled that for £500, they were to relinquish all title to the lands at first sold, and throw in about I 5000 acres more, including valuable timber. Euahino Bush Block 1 Dec. 31, 1856 Chiefly forest land, skirted by \ow hills and grassy terraces, running back to spurs offRuahine range 100,000 j 3,040 0 0 y> )) ' This is not a complete purchase. The payment was made to secure the consent of certain Chiefs, but negociations suspended in consequence of the war. Ruataniwha I Chiefly yaluable timber, totara forest, flanked by grassy plains 10 0 0 *t »» unknown! Dec. 31,1856 10 0 0 i Puahanui I Aug. 3, 1857 12,000 Grassy plains, with totara timber, rich soil, good agricultural and pastoral land Aug. 3, 1857 900 0 0 J j 1,000 0 0 J 1 1858 300 0 0 1,200 0 0 1,000 0 0 )» !) Tautane (additional) )> 70,000 Porangahau I n 130,000 13,000 0 0 j 3,000 0 0 I i 402,000 11,900 0 0 300 0 0 12,200 0 0 DONALD McLEAN, Chief Commissio;