Enclosure 3 in No. 5.
Mr. J. J. Symonds, P.M., to the Agent of the New Zealand Company for New Edinburgh.

Sir,—

In answer to you letter of the 22nd April, in which you request that I will furnish you with the name of any proprietor or proprietors of land at Waikawaite on whose behalf I may have acted in thus prohibiting one of the objects of your present enterprise, I have the honor to enclose, for your information, a copy of a letter from His Honor the Superintendent of the Southern District, in which you will observe that it is clearly defined that no survey is to be proceeded with by the Agent of the New Zealand Company, or any one employed by him, until I am clearly satisfied that the land has been alienated by the aborigines, and purchased by him on behalf of the Company.