Mr Kettle and his staff deserve the sincere acknowledgments of the Province for retaining the Maori names of the different districts of the settlement in the prosecution of their survey. The large proportion of suburban and rural divisions have the old native name attached to them, and only in the subsequent details do we stumble on an imported title having no local significance whatever, bestowed at the time, pandering to the vanity of some already forgotten aspirer to notoriety. One exception must, however, be made.

The name Molyneux was given to the river by the celebrated discoverer Captain Cook, and on that account it is well it should be perpetuated. The more generally accepted name Clutha was bestowed by the surveyors, and is said to be the Gaelic for Clyde, as is the name recognised and used in all official documents. The exact meaning of Clutha has not been satisfactorily explained; it occurs frequently in old Jacobite songs and history. The Inch (island), a very common one in Scotland, was given at the same time. There is a little difference in opinion regarding the original Maori names, to which reference will be made.

The names of the first purchasers, with the year, are as follows:—

Clutha District.

Name.	Block.	Section.	Date.
George Ross and Andrew Mercer	1	1	1847
James Williamson	4	17	1847
[Both these choices were made in Edinburgh.]
William Chalmers	14	5	1848
John Law Baker	54	2 & 4	1848
William Chalmers	51	8	1848
Robert Craig	19	2	1849
James Houston Stirling	19	3	1849
William Perkins	23	11	1849
Chalmers Brotherton and Mav Taylor	19	2	1849
Charles Metcalf Taylor and William Graham Taylor	51	6	1849
T. B. Archibald	15	4	1850
Alexander Swan	23	5	1850
Samuel Blyth	50	6	1850

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Inchclutha.

Name.	Block.	Section.	Date.
Howard Lakeman and Herbert Lakeman	4	8	1848
Thomas Ferguson	8	4	1848
Thomas Tavlor	8	6	1848
W. H. Valpy	8	7	1848
Peter Murdoch Napier and David John Napier	13	1	1848
James McHardy	14	3 & 4	1848
Thomas Redpath	13	9 & 11	1848
John Ramage	13	12	1848
D. and W. Laing	13	2	1849
Robert Duncan Smith	12	9	1849
Francis Scott Pillans	10	12	1849
William and Peter Smith	10	11	1849
David and William Laing	4	7	1849
James and Archibald Barr	8	8	1849
James Stevenson	10	10	1849

South Molyneux.

Name.	Block.	Section.	Date.
John Brown and others	1	3	1847
Rev. John McDermid	1	4	1847
William H. Cutten	1	5	1847
David Garrick	2	1	1847
William A. Mosley	2	2	1847
Charles Smith	2	3	1847
[Choices made in Britain.]
W. F. Fulton	5	4	1848
James Smith	4	4	1849