Mr. Borlase's Land.

I wrote to Manihera last week telling him not to mix himself further with the dispute about Borlase's land. He has, I think, done all he can be called upon to do in the matter. It would be well to caution the Natives that, as they have not paid for the land, £200 of the £440 paid by them to Mr. McLean having been returned, they can only have a claim to a very small portion of the land. I enclose a letter from Romana te Pehi, setting up a claim to Karaitiana's land. Inquire into it.