"I have the honor to request that you will have the goodness to submit for the information of His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, the following report connected with my late visit to the Rangitikei and Manawatu districts. At a general meeting of natives on the 29th May last, I handed over the third instalment of £500 to the Ngatiapa tribe, for the Rangitikei purchase.* * *

The sums expended among the Rangitikei tribe for their land, the location of English settlers among them, and the consequent demand for their produce and labour, has greatly stimulated their industry, and wonderfully improved their disposition and circumstances. Formerly they were notorious for petty quarrels with the surrounding tribes, and plundering the English travellers who passed along the coast; they are even now a rude race. But since their treaty with the Government for the cession of their country, &c.* * *

There is a fine rich district of land situated between the Rangitikei and Manawatu, the acquisition of which, in the course of a few years, will be found very desirable. The remaining portion of the coast from Manawatu to a stream forming the boundary between the Ptaki (Otaki) natives and those of Waikanae appears more peculiarly adapted for a native reserve than for the purposes of English colonisation. * * *