Wellington.

At Wellington there were originally 110 country sections of 100 acres each, and 110 town sections of one acre each. These reserves were in the first instance placed in trust by the Company, the Bishop of New Zealand and the Chief Justice having been at that time acting as trustees; but it was found advisable by Sir George Grey, from the insufficiency, of land in the occupation of the Natives, to cause some of those reserves to be placed at their disposal, by which means he was enabled to continue their loyalty and attachment, and to afford them sufficient inducement to remain at Wellington as permanent and generally industrious settlers and labourers, instead of moving in a body as they contemplated to Taranaki.