No. 8.
Mr. B. Hawes, to M. Mallieres.

Sir,—

With reference to the correspondence which took place with you in the year 1845, on the claim of the Nanto-Bordelaise Company, in which correspondence it was mutually agreed that a tract of 30,000 acres should be selected in Banks Peninsula, in New Zealand, for the purpose of being granted to the Company in satisfaction of its claims, I am directed by Earl Grey to inform you that no intelligence has yet been received of the selection of a tract of land in pursuance of this arrangement, and that as it must be expedient for the Company, as well as desirable for the public interests, that this matter should be settled with the least delay which circumstances will admit, the Governor has been instructed to use his efforts to select and appropriate a tract of 30,000 acres to the Nanto-Bordelaise Company, in communication with M. Belligny, whom you named as the agent of the Company for this purpose, if he be still in the Colony; and if not, taking the best means in his power for securing a just attention to the interests of the Company in the selection of the lands to be set apart for their use.