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training, and instruction in the English language shall be given to youth educated therein or maintained thereat. In testimony whereof we have caused this our grant to be sealed with the seal of our said Province. Witness our trusty and well-beloved Sir George Grey, X.C.8., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of our said Province and its Dependencies, at Government House, Auckland, in New Ulster aforesaid, this twenty-third day of September, in the fourteenth year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty. (1.5.) G. Grey. Entered on record this twenty-fourth day of September, 1850. Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary and Begistrar.

(No. 48 of Eeg. No. 4.) Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and so forth : To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas a School hath been established by the Government at Taurarua, in the suburbs of Auckland, under the superintendence of the Bishop of New Zealand, for the education of the children of our subjects of both races, and of children of other poor and destitute persons being inhabitants of the islands in the Pacific Ocean : And whereas the Government have given funds for the establishment and support of the said school, and out of the funds so given the Bight Beverend Father in God George Augustus. Lord Bishop of New Zealand hath paid the sum of one hundred and fourteen pounds seven shillings and sixpence (£ll4 7s. 6d.) for the allotment or parcel of land hereinafter described : Now know ye, that for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fourteen pounds seven shillings and sixpence (£ll4 7s. 6d.) from the aforesaid funds by the said Lord Bishop of New Zealand so paid, we, for us, our heirs and successors, do hereby grant unto the said Bishop of New Zealand and his successors, Bishops of New Zealand, all that allotment or parcel of land in our Province of New Ulster, containing by admeasurement nine (9) acres two (2) roods and five (5) perches, more or less, situated in the suburbs of Auckland, Parish of Waitemata, County of Eden, and being allotment No. nine (9) of section two (2), bounded on the north-west by No. seven (7) six hundred and fifty (650) links, on the north by No. eight (8) five hundred and fifty (550) links, on the east by No. twenty-three a (23a) one thousand six hundred and twenty-three (1623) links, and on the south-west by a road one thousand five hundred and seventy-five (1575) links, together with the rents, issues, and proceeds thereof, to hold unto the said Bishop of New Zealand and his successors, in trust nevertheless and for the use or towards the support and maintenance of the said school, so long as religious education, industrial training, and instruction in the English language shall be given to youth educated therein or maintained thereat. In testimony whereof we have caused this our grant to be sealed with the seal of our said Province. Witness our trusty and well-beloved Sir George Grey, X.C.8., Governor of our said Province and its Dependencies, at Government House, Auckland, in New Ulster aforesaid, this fourteenth day of April, in the fourteenth year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. (1.5.) G. Grey. Entered on record this twenty-third day of April, 1851. Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary and Begistrar.

No. 2. Grant for St. Mary's College, North Shore. (No. 30.) Victoria, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and so forth : To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : Whereas a School hath been established by the Government in the Parish of Takapuna, in the suburbs of Auckland, under the superintendence of the Bishop of the Boman Catholic Church at Auckland, for the education of children of our subjects of both races, and of the children of other poor and destitute persons, being inhabitants of the islands in the Pacific Ocean: And whereas it would promote the objects of the said institution to set apart certain pieces or parcels of land in the immediate neighbourhood thereof for the use and towards the support and maintenance of the same : Now know ye, that we, of our especial grace, for us, our heirs and successors, do hereby grant unto the said Bishop of the Boman Catholic Church at Auckland, and his successors, Bishops of the Eoman Catholic Church at Auckland, all that allotment being No. twenty-two (22) in the Parish of Takapuna, in the County of Eden, in the Province of New Ulster, bounded on the north by a road seven hundred and eighty (780) links, on the east by a swamp by No. twenty-three (23) two thousand and thirty (2030) links, on the south by a road six hundred and ninety (690) links, and on the west by a road two thousand five hundred and eighty (2580) links, and containing nineteen (19) acres, three (3) roods, and thirty-three (33) perches, more or less : All those allotments being