I have the honor to report that, in accordance with the Surveyor-General's instructions, I proceeded on the 11th instant to Tuimata and assembled the natives, who offered the Maro-o-Hinewai for sale, and obtained the consent of the three parties concerned—Pepene, for the Papakura tribe; Te Nga, for those of Maketu; and Haimona, for the resident natives of Tuimata, as well as the Ngatiteata, to whom they are related.