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No. 3. His Honor the Superintendent, Auckland, to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary. (No. 2337-75.) Sir, — Superintendent's Office, Auckland, 17th July, 1875. Herewith 1 have the honor to enclose a copy of the translation of a letter from the Native Peneamene Tanui, to show that Mr. O'Halloran and Mr. Guilding (or one of them) have agreed to lease from the Natives the reserve of one thousand acres in the Tairua Block, which the Provincial Government have reserved for a township. I have, &c, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington. G. Grey.

Enclosure in No. 3. Peneamene Tanui to His Honor the Superintendent, Auckland. Friend, — Whitianga (Mercury Bay), 29th June, 1875. Salutations to you who now represent the Chiefs of the Hauraki, who are gone from before our eyes. Friend, I greet you. Friend, Wilkinson has come to me for our land at Tairua. You did right to send him, but two other pakehas have come to us for that place, who wish us to lease to them. We have not concluded our talk yet, but I know this, I shall certainly not consent that George Wilkinson may have it, for I have received a payment in advance from those pakehas, and they must not say that I am robbing them by letting another have the land. Friend, I greet you, enough, To Sir George Grey, From your friend, Superintendent of Auckland. Peneamene Tanui.

No. 4 The Hon. the Colonial Secretary to His Honor the Superintendent, Auckland. Sir, — Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, New Zealand, 21st July, 1875. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 2337, of 17th July, enclosing copy of the translation of a letter from the native Peneamene Tanui, "to show that Mr. O'Halloran and Mr. Guilding (or one of them) have agreed to lease from the Natives the reserve of one thousand acres in the Tairua Block, which the Provincial Government have reserved for a township." I should feel obliged if your Honor would .kindly indicate in what portion of Tamil's letter it is shown that an agreement has been made for a lease to Messrs. O'Halloran and Guilding, or to one of them. I have, &c, His Honor the Superintendent, Auckland. Daniel Pollen.

No. 5. Mr. James Mackay to the Hon. the Hon. Colonial Secretary. Sir, — Auckland, 17th July, 1875. I have the honor to inform you that Sir George Grey in his official capacity as Superintendent of this Province, has thought proper to make certain statements respecting the thousand acres of land reserved for the Natives in the Taivua 1 Slock, which reflects seriously on my character. In addition to this a writ lias been issued against myself and others in the Supreme Court by Sir George Grey which was sued out by his Solicitor, Mr. W. L. Rees, and in accordance with an affidavit sworn by the person last named, which contains serious allegations, having no foundation in fact. Having been informed that a writ had been issued against me, I proceeded to the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court accompanied by Major Green, and was shown the writ, the affidavit, and declaration made in support of it by Mr. W. L. Rees. On my Solicitor's Clerk applying to make a copy of these to-day, he was informed that the writ and affidavit only could be copied, and that the declaration was merely lodged there pending an application to the Court for an injunction. If the writ, affidavit, and declaration were not filed, then the Deputy-Registrar had no right to show the letter to me and say that " I could have a copy taken by my clerk without payment of any further fee than the shilling paid by Major Green for the search." As I have been thus deprived of a copy of the declaration in question it becomes necessary for me to endeavour to give its contents from memory. The declaration appeared to me to set out " That the Native grantees absolutely conveyed to the Crown their title to thirty-six thousand acres of land, known as the Tairua Block, without any reservation whatsoever. That the only record of any reservation was an endorsement on the back of the deed by myself that the Natives were entitled to a reserve of one thousand acres to be selected by them within three months, and to be taken in not more than two blocks. That the selection had not been made within the stipulated time by the Natives, and had lapsed. That the General Government had handed over the Tairua Block to the Provincial Government without mentioning the right of the Natives to select one thousand acres within it, and that I had not informed the Government that any arrangement had been made to make such reserve. That I had no right or authority to afterwards cause such reserves to be selected and surveyed. That since the proclamation of the Tairua, Pakirarahi, and other blocks as an extension of the Hauraki Gold Mining District I, without the authority of the General or Provincial Government, had fraudulently made the reserve in a place different from that which had originally been