The work of a Land Court is to discover all Native owners of any given piece of land, and to insure to a European purchaser a title with quiet possession. The political importance of this cannot be over-estimated. What greater boon to both races than an inexpensive and safe means of exchanging page 36surplus lands for cash, or other property, with mutual satisfaction? The machinery to effect this ought therefore to be simple, inexpensive, and well adapted to its work. The following points I believe to be the more important:—