Mr. Commissioner Rogan to the Chief Commissioner.

The Natives in the vicinity of Whaingaroa are improving rapidly in industry, having extended their cultivation last season considerably beyond any previous year. One mill is now finished, the sole property of the Natives, and preparations are being made for another to be completed during the winter. There are several small wooden houses being built for the purpose of establishing Native stores. The feeling of these Natives with reference to the sales of land to the Government is unanimous, and when the existing arrangements with them are concluded, the Government will have purchased nearly 100,000 acres. That they are friendly disposed towards the Government and the settlers may be gathered from the fact that they are anxious for a Resident Magistrate to be placed in the district, for the purpose of settling according to British law any differences which may arise between them and the Europeans.