Minute by Attorney-General.

I add an extract from Native letter alluded to: "Mr. St. Hill has already leased one of our sections there, and receives the rent.^* No portion of it [the rent] has ever been given to us. Governor Grey told us that after nine years we should resume possession of it. At the expiration of that period we went to Mr. St. Hill, and he refused to give it up to us. Hence we discover that your custom is to give and afterwards to take away.—Te Rira Porutu, Ihaia Porutu [and 7 others]."