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With reference to the Special Settlements, the following Extract from a Letter from the Immigration. Agent at Auckland, dated 27th July, 1859, may prove interesting:

"I would also desire to see much of our Immigration conducted on the principle of Special Settlements. People settling down singly and unsupported in the bush, are under great disadvantages. They cannot make roads, and have difficulties that many are unfit to cope with; but a community of a few dozen families would easily overcome all these difficulties. I know places where there is plenty of very good land—and in places that, ere long, must be very important—where I could not advise single families to settle, but where a dozen or two, acting in concert, would do admirably."