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APPENDIX K. To His Excellency the Bight Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow, fa., Governor of the Colony of New Zealand. May it please youe Excellency,— We, the members of the Board of Land Purchase Commissioners for the Land District of Otago, have the honour to report that, in compliance with the directions contained in your Excellency's minute of the 6th instant, we have ascertained the value and suitableness for settlement of the lands mentioned in the schedule hereto, and respectfully recommend purchase of the same at a price of £2 10s. per acre. Given under our hands, at Dunedin, this 14th day of September, 1893. S. Percy Smith. J. P. Maitland. ■ H. TUETON.

Schedule.—Otago. Paets of Blocks XL, XII., XIII., and XIV., Pomahaka Survey District, containing 7,466 acres, more or less, offered by Mr. John Douglas.

APPENDIX L. (Telegram.) 25th September, 1893. Hon. Minister op Lands desires me to offer you two pounds ten shillings per acre for the Pomahaka Downs Estate, 7,466 acres about. S. Pekcy Smith, Surveyor-General, Wellington. John'DoUglas, Esq., Mount Boyal, Palmerston.

APPENDIX M. (Telegram.) 27th September, 1893. Youe telegram received. Try split difference; making price sixty shillings. S. Percy Smith, Surveyor-General, Wellington. John Douglas, Palmerston.

Hon. Minister of Lands. I do not think the Act contemplates your offering a higher price than what the Board recommends. 27th September, 1893. S. Pekcy Smith. Accordingly.—J. McK. 29/9/93.

APPENDIX N. (Telegram.) Wellington, 2nd October, 1893. Your telegram of the 27th has been considered by the Minister. He cannot advance on the price offered already. S. Percy Smith, Surveyor-General. John Douglas Esq., Mount Eoyal, Palmerston.

APPENDIX O. (Telegram.) 3rd October, 1893. Yours of last night received. Have written you fully and conclusively by to-clay's mail. S. Percy Smith, Wellington. John Douglas, Palmerston.

APPENDIX P. Deab Sib, — Mount Eoyal, Palmerston, Otago, New Zealand, 3rd October, 1893. I am this moment in receipt of your telegram of last night, and regret to find the Minister of Lands cannot advance upon your offer of 605., say, fifty shillings per acre, for my Pomahaka Downs Burning Plains Estate, so I must reluctantly accept of this offer. This will prove the most successful settlement the Government has ever touched, and will, I feel, prove as successful as the "Douglas Settlement, Manawatu"; call this one "the Douglas Settlement South." Yours, &c, S. Percy Smith, Esq. John Douglas. P.S.—Shall I ask your agents, Messrs. Haggett, to prepare the conveyance, or will you yourself do so.-^-J. D.

Hon. Minister of Lands. You will see from this that Mr. Douglas will accept £2 10s. an acre or (about) I propose to instruct Crown Solicitor to prepare deeds as soon as possible; also to have the survey put in hand at once, for which purpose I shall want another surveyor for, say, nine months, or two for five months, at usual rates. I propose to give the Treasury notice at once that we shall want the money soon, and a sum for survey and roading in addition. Mr. Douglas will also have to be told. S. Percy Smith. 4/10/93. Approved.—J. McK. 7/10/93. 15—1. sa.