I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 109, of the 29th August, transmitting a memorandum from your Responsible Advisers, containing the details of a plan which they have formed for the introduction in the Northern Island of a large body of settlers, to whom it is proposed to assign land on a species of military tenure in the Waikato, and hereafter probably in the Taranaki districts. You also enclose a copy of your reply, authorizing the immediate raising of 2,000 men for active service, pending the meeting of the General Assembly, together with copies of the conditions under which they are to be enrolled.