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"No. 10. The Hon. Mr. Rolleston to Dr. J. Logan Campbell. Wellington, 13th March, 1883. I have received your telegram of the sth instant, expressing the satisfaction of the directors of your company with the terms of my telegram of the 3rd instant. I have subsequently received your telegram of the Bth instant, in which you request me to furnish explanations of Mr. Bryce's letter of the Ist instant, and raise questions which, if I understand them aright, were disposed of by my telegram and by what passed at our conference in Auckland. lam not sure that lam right in my understanding of your telegram, and, in Mr. Bryce's absence, I can only repeat the assurances given in my telegram of the 3rd. instant. I am, further, in a position to say that the communications I have had with the Natives on the subject of dealing with their lands for the purposes of railways and otherwise are so far of a satisfactory character, and that I have no doubt that, if no further interference of third parties take place, and the Natives are brought to understand that all dealings must be primarily with the Government, satisfactory arrangements will be made both for the settlement and cession of lands for railway construction. Will you kindly supply me with correct copy of your telegram of the Bth instant, which contains some errors in transmission ? J. Logan Campbell, Esq., Auckland. W. Rolleston.

No. 11. Mr. W. J. Butler to Dr. J. Logan Campbell. Sir,— Auckland, 20th March, 1883. I am directed by the Hon. Mr. Bryce to express to you his regret that your telegram of the Bth instant should have remained so long unacknowledged; but for some unaccountable reason it has been nine days in reaching him. lam to say, however, that Mr. Rolleston has informed Mr. Bryce that he has replied, and, as Mr. Rolleston has the papers and correspondence, and the administration of the Thermal Springs Act resting with him, a reply from Mr. Bryce is considered unnecessary. I have, &c, W. J. Butler, J. Logan Campbell, Esq. Private Secretary.

No. 12. Rotorua Railway.—Memorandum. A deputation of Dr. Campbell, Messrs. J. M. Clark, Thomas Morrin, T. Peacock, M.H.R., James Stewart (engineer), and J. Batger (secretary), waited on me to-day in reference to this railway. The deputation desired to know what were the views of the Government as to promoting the work. I replied, that the Government desired that the railway should lie made as speedily as possible, and would facilitate the arrangements necessary to insure the construction; and I added that the correspondence I had read between the Minister of Lands and the company showed that that was so in my opinion. I explained that the Proclamation under the Thermal Springs' Act was prepared by myself, and the responsibility of including the quantity of land so much objected to rested with me; and the object was — 1. To embrace all the valuable springs, so as to make them available for the public, and to concentrate the work as much as possible so as to make one strong settlement, and prevent a number of publichouses springing up all over the country wherever- there happened to be a mineral spring acquired by a European; 2. To promote the interests of the railway, by securing an endowment, or rather placing the land in such a position that it could not be bought up by individuals in large blocks, thereby preventing the means of securing an endowment; and 3. To secure that the land should be occupied by numerous bona fide settlers, on the lino of railway especially. The Government had no intention of making any profit out of the land, but would only be recouped the actual expenditure incurred. Mr. Peacock asked if there was any objection to the directors of the Railway Company interviewing the Natives with a view to explain their plans. I replied that the Government could not prevent the directors taking that course if they thought fit, but that it appeared to me premature and unwise, and I advised, it not to be done ; that in my opinion the first thing to be done was to get the land passed through the Native Land Court; that until then no steps should be taken to enter on the land phase of the subject, but when that preliminary step had been taken the Government would be prepared to act in the way they deemed best calculated to procure the construction of the railway and the settlement of the land. 4th April, 1883. • Fred. Whitakee.

No. 13. Memorandum by Dr. J. Logan Campbell for the Hon. the Premier. 2nd. May, .1883. The directors of the Rotorua Railway Company submit that the Government is in a position to acquire under the Thermal Springs Act certain blocks of land which have passed the Native Land Court, and, the said Act providing for the gratuitous cession by the Natives to the Government,

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