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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS LAID BEFORE THE COMMITTEE. Copy of Crown Grant. Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen: To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting : Know ye that for good considerations us thereunto moving, AYe, for us, our heirs and successors, do hereby grant unto Pomare, Tirika Horo, Toroiri Moiri, Tutauanui Te Tauaro, To Teira Mahu, Terehia Tumatauenga, Tukere, Ihimaera Te Kamarata, Hohaia Te Tawhiti, Marata Kairawako, Parete Tawaewae, Te AViremu Tutahi, Petana, To Hoke Taiawha, Miriama Raugiwhakaehu/faituha to Morehu Ngakiekie, AViremu Heti Hetara, Paraone Pehiriri, AVirikake Tatare, Te Ranapia Kahukoti, Te Parehina, Matutaera Kaikore, Pita Te Amotutu, AVhakataua, Matene Ngahuru, Te Matangi, Katerina Te Aria, Harata Tuarawhati Tuihana, Hemi Taiheru, Pcka Titoki, Potaka, AViremu Raukawa, AVata Araroa, and Hono Makarauri, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, their heirs and assigns : All that parcel of land in our Provincial District of Auckland, in our Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement six thousand five hundred and forty-seven acres, more or less, situated in the Tauranga District, County of Tauranga, and being the Ohauiti No. 2 Block. Bounded towards the North by high-water mark of the Tauranga Harbour; towards the North-east by lines, four thousand five hundred and ten links and one thousand nine hundred and eighty-six links, by the Kaitcmako Creek, and by lines, eleven thousand seven hundred and twenty-two links aud forty-eight thousand five hundred and thirty-five links ; towards the South-east by a line, six thousand nine hundred aud eightythree links; towards the South-west by the AVaimapu River, by a line, seventeen thousand four hundred and twenty-eight links, and again by the AVaimapu River ; and towards the AVest by lines, five thousand and eighty links and three thousand four hundred and sixty one links, by the Pukekonui Creek, and by lines, three thousand two hundred links, six hundred and twenty-four links, nine hundred aud forty links, two thousand four hundred and fifty links, one thousand one hundred aud sixty-one links, one thousand four hundred and fifty-three links, four thousand two hundred and ninety-six links, aud eight hundred links : as the same is delineated on the plan drawn iv the margin hereof, with ali the rights and appurtenances thereto belonging: To hold unto the said Pomare, Tirika Horo, Toroiri Moiri, Tutauanui Te Tauaro, Te Teira Mahu, Terehia Tumatauenga, Tukere, Ihimaera Te Kamarata, Hohaia To Tawhiti, Marata Kairawake, Parete Tawaewae, Te AViremu Tutahi, Petana, Te Heke Taiawha, Miriama Rangiwhakaohu, Taituha te Morehu Ngakiekie, AViremu Heti Hetara, Paraone Pehiriri, AVirikake Tatare, Te Ranapia Kahukoti, Te Parehina, Matutaera Kaikore, Pita te Amotutu, AVhakatana, Matene Ngahuru, Te Matangi, Katerina te Aria, Harata Tuarawhati Tiuhana, Hemi Taiheru, Peka Titoke, Potaka, AViremu Raukawa, AVata Araroa, and Hone Makarauri as tenants in common and not as joint tenants, their heirs and assigns for ever, as from the third day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one : In testimony whereof we have caused this our Grant to bo sealed with tho Seal of our Colony of New Zealand. AVitness our right trusty aud entirely-beloved Cousin and Councillor, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, A Tiscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave, of Mulgrave, all in the County of Tork, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ; and Baron Mulgrave, of New Ross, in the County of AVexford, in the Peerage of Ireland, a Member of our Most Honorable Privy Council, Knight Commander of our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand aud its Dependencies, and Arice-Admiral of the same ; at AVellington, this seventh day of August, in the forty-first year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred aud seventy-seven. No. 19180. Normanby. Reg. A. 90.

B. Sir, — Civil Commissioner's Office, Tauranga, 23rd June, 1865. In accordance with your verbal instructions given to me when in Tauranga, I have the honor to report upon the present state of the land claims as far as they concern the Natives in this district: —- In the first place, I will bring uuder your notice the position in which the question was placed when peace was made with the Natives in this district, August 4. AVhen the Natives made their surrender to His Excellency the Governor the Ngaiterangi gave up all their lands into the hands of His Excellency. The friendly Natives were parties to this arrangement, as you will see by reference to records in your office. Before the Governor declared the terms upon which ho would accept the surrender of the Ngaiterangi, I was instructed by tho late Ministers, Messrs. AVhitaker and Pox, to meet the Natives and try to induce them to give up some specific block of land; but so many difficulties presented themselves, chiefly among themselves, that they abandoned the idea, and adhered to their first determination of giving up all their lands. There is also a record of this in your office. His Excellency the Governor, in his reply to the Ngaiterangi, told them that he would return to them three-fourths of their land, retaining the remainder as a punishment for their rebellion. The Natives all expressed satisfaction at the liberality of the Governor. It was afterwards proposed that the block of land to be confiscated was to be that portion of Tauranga between the Rivers Waimapu on the south and Te Wairoa on the north. All their land to the north of the Te Puna the Natives were to bo paid for at the rate of 3s. per aero. A deposit of £1,000 was paid upon it, the receipt for which will be found in tho Treasury. With regard to tho block of land abovo described to bo confiscated, tho Natives, after a little reflection, took exception to the proposition. They stated, with justice, that if it was carried out tho