No. 49.
His Honor the Superintendent, Otago, to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary.

Sir,—

As Acting Superintendent of the Province of Otago, and feeling it necessary, though deprived of the advice of my Executive by my absence in Wellington, not to delay an expression of my opinion on the case of the Princes Street Reserve, I have the honor to request that no decision be arrived at by the Government which will tend to the issue of a Crown Grant until such time as the Provincial Government have had an opportunity of appealing to the House of Representatives for a full investigation into all the circumstances of the case, an appeal which I have felt it to be my duty as Acting Superintendent to recommend.