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No. 81. MR. COMMISSIONER KEMP TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER. District Commissioner's Office, Bay of Islands, 26th October, 1859. Sir, — I do myself the honor to forward descriptions of the following blocks of land surveyed and purchased within the districts of the Bay of Islands and Mangonui, for the purpose of insertion in the Government Gazette, and are all of them certified copies of the description given in the original Deed. ACRES. f 1. Matawherohia 3,746 \ 2. Kawa Kawa, (North) 15,000 Bay of Islands. 1 3. Te Kauri 289 ) 4. Patunui 188 ( 5. Wharau 18 ( 1. Kohumaru 11,C62 \ 2. Puheke 6,000 Mongonui < 3. Waiake 6,950 ) 4. Ohinu, 2,703 ( 5. Kaiawe 1,375 I have, &c, The Chief Commissioner, H. T. Kemp. Land Purchase Department, Auckland.

Bat op Islands. Mangonui. Forwarding descriptions of Blocks for Proclamation,

No. 82. THE ASSISTANT NATIVE SECRETARY (ACTING FOR THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER) TO MR. COMMISSIONER KEMP. Native Land Purchase Department, Auckland, October 28, 1859. Sir, — With reference to your letter of 13th ult., concerning a requisition for the purchase of the Ahipara block, I have the honor, by direction of the Governor, to inform you that His Excellency has been pleased to prove of the purchase being made, and that the Sub-Treasurer at Russell has been instructed to advance to you, upon your Requisition, the above-named sum for that purpose. I have, &c., 11. T. Kemp, Esq., For the Chief Commissioner, District Commissioner, Thos. 11. Smith. Bay of Islands.

R. 74-82. Ahipara. Purchase of Ahipara has been approved.

No. 83. THE ASSISTANT NATIVE SECRETARY (ACTING FOR THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER) TO MR. COMMISSIONER KEMP. Native Land Purchase Department, Auckland, October 28th, 1859. Sir,— With reference to your letter of 12th ulto., No. 73, I have the honor, by direction of His Excellency the Governor, to request that you will have the goodness to state whether the block referred , to in this Report, under the name of Waiake, is the same as that called Upper Aurere in your Report t of June 7 (No. 68). If this be the case, I am directed to call your attention to the inconvenience arising from having different names to the same block. I am further to request that you will state the circumstances which induced you to exceed the sum authorized, Three hundred and fifty pounds (£350), for the Upper Kohumaru block, and to inform you that in all cases where you find it necessary to exceed your instructions, the circumstances should be fully reported to the Government without delay, with a view to obtaining His Excellency's sanction to the same. I have, &c, H. T. Kemp, Esq, For the Chief Commissioner, District Commissioner, Thos. 11. Smith. Bay of Islands.

vTaiake. Incouvenieuce of giving two names to one block. V. Letter No. 80.

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