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No. 3. COPY OF DESPATCH FROM flOVEHNOR T. OOEE BROWNE, C.B., TO ills i.R.\rK Tin: DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, K.u. Government House, Auckland, New Zealand, 31st July, 1801. Mv Lord Duke, — I have the honor to forward a Report from Mr. Mackay, Assistant Native Secretary at Collingwood, in the Province of Nelson. It appears that this gentleman, while travelling, saw a plan >>t tin- land purchased at the Waitara, sketched in the sand by Ropoama and other Natives, the former of whom is the most important chief of the Ngatiawa Tribe. The plan indicated clearly where Win. King's patches of land are situated, and seems to have been approved by the whole party. Mr. Mackay having no knowledge himself of the Waitara, copied the plan and sent it to tinNative Secretary, in order that the independent and disinterested evidence of an important section of the Ngatiawas might be compared with that which had been previously received. A Copy of this plan, and the one made by the Government Surveyors on the land are attached, by which your Grace will see that the two correspond, and thai the portions of land belonging to Win. King have been excluded from the purchase. The evidence in this case is thoroughly impartial, the Rev. Henry Halcombe being brother-in-law to Mr. Fox. I have, itc, T. Gore Browne. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K.G., <fec, Ac., ic.

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MAP OF WAITARA.