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Xi A Te Karaka, — Tauranga, Pepuere 28,1875. E hoa c hiahia ana matou kia hokona to matou piihi whenua ko te Karaite ingoa ki a Kapene Morihi he tono tenei no matou kia kce ki a pataia c koe kite Kawanatanga kia whakaaetia kia ruritia c matou taua whenua kia hokona hoki ki a ia. Heoi, Na Hiria Timoti. Contents of documents aud signature acknowledged.—H. Clarke, 6th November, 1875.

Xi a Te Karaka, — Tauranga, Pepuere 27, 1875. E hoa c hiahia ana matou kia hokona to matou piihi whenua ko Pukehouhou te ingoa ki a Kapene Morihi he tono tenei na matou kia koe ki a pataia c koe kite Kawanatanga kia whakaaetia kia ruritia c matou taua whenua kia hokona hoki ki a ia. Heoi, Na Marata Parete. Contents of document, signature, and mark acknowledged.—H. Clarke, 6th November, 1875.

Xi a te Karaka, — Tauranga, Pepuere 24, 1875. E hoa c hiahia ana matou kia hokona to matou piihi whenua ko Pukemanuka te ingoa ki a Kapene Morihi he tono tenei na matou ki a koe kia pataia c koe kite Kawanatanga kia whakaaetia ki a ruritia c matou taua whenua kia hokona hoki ki a ia.—Heoi, Na, Matene Ngakuru, Matanoi Materoa. Contents of document and signatures acknowledged.—H. Clarke, 6th November, 1875.

Xi a Te Karaka, — Tauranga, Pepuere 17, 1875. E hoa c hiahia ana matou kia hokona to matou piihi whenua ko Pukemanuka te ingoa ki a Kapene Morihi he tono tenei na matou ki a koe kia pataia c koe kite Kawanatanga kia wkakaaetia ki a ruritia c matou taua whenua kia hokona hoki ki a ia. Heoi, Na AViremu Tutahi. Contents of documents and signature acknowledged.—H. Clarke. 6th November, 1875.

Xi a Te Karaka, — Tauranga, Pepuere 6, 1875. E hoa c hiahia ana matou kia hokona to matou piihi whenua ko Pukepoto te ingoa ki a Kapene Morihi he tono tenei na matou kia koe kia pataia o koe kite Kawanatanga kia whakaaetia kia ruritia c matou taua whenua ki a hokona hoki ki a ia. Heoi, Na Tatare AVirikake. Parehiua Tatare. Contents of document and signatures acknowledged.—H. Clarke, 6th November, 1878.

Mr. E. Douglas to the Hon. Sir G. Grey. Sir, — Mohaka, Hawke's Bay, 15th November, 1877. Having had almost endless correspondence with the Natives and other Government officers regarding some land belonging to my wife, Te Korowhiti Tuataka, of the Ngaiteahi tribe, near Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, but without having got any satisfaction from one or the other department, I take tho liberty and furnish your Honor with a full statement from my first application up to the present time, and hope that your Honor will, by a careful inquiry into my wife's claims to the land, be able to judge whether my exertion to obtain satisfaction for my wife and children deserves your Honor's attention, and the rights of children. In March, 1871, my wife and her near relations, and well-wishers of my children, requested me to go and see Mr. Clarke, and request him to let the blocks of land, Ohauiti and Pukepoto, be put through the Native Lands Court, so that my wife, ou behalf of her children, could get her name inserted into the Crown grant, Mr. Jonathan Brown being in possession of the aforesaid land through a temporary lease made out by Mr. Clarke, then Native Lands Commissioner. Having arrived at Mr. Clarke's office, I stated my errand to him in presence of four Native chiefs. Mr. Clarke asked me who my wife was, and her father's name. I told him "Te Rangi Tuataka, of the Ngaiteahi tribe ; but he is dead." Mr. Clarke said he knew deceased very well when alive, but said that he thought Te Rangi had a son, whose claim would go before my wife's; but, when told that Te Rangi's son was also dead, he said his children would have a prior claim to my wife ; but, when informed that there were no offspring of the son (Te Irimana), he said my wife was the claimant of her father's landed property. Mr. Clarke addressed himself then to those chiefs present regarding the claims of Te Rangi (my wife's father) to the aforesaid blocks of land, to which my wile lays claim, when Hamiora Tv replied that he never knew that any one else but Te Rangi laid claim to those lands, and never heard any one dispute his rights. Mr. Clarke then addressed himself to me, saying, " AVell, why did not your wife apply about this before. I quite acknowledge her right, but the land in question has passed the Native Lands Court some years ago [which, of course, proved incorrect, as your Honor will see further on, and I think was only said by Mr. Clarke to mislead me] ; so do not bother me; leave my office." Of course I did as I was ordered, without a murmur; for in those days officers of the Native Department were almost despotic. However, Sir, about twelve months or thereabouts after my interview with Mr. Clarke, Captain Morris appeared on the scene, and Mr. Clarke went to effect a new leaso for this gentleman from the Natives ; but, probably remembering the claim my wife laid to the blocks Ohauiti and Pukepoto, everything was kept as quiet as possible until the lease had been effected,