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SCHEDULE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland ; a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council ; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George ; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. John Sheehan. Approved in Council.—Pred. Le Patourel, Acting-Clerk of Executive Council.

REPORT. Mat it please Your Excellency,— In obedience to the command of His Excellency the Marquis of Normanby, conveyed to me by a Commission dated the 26th day of November, 1878, I do myself the honor to report that I gave due notice of the opening of the Commission at Greymouth on the Ith January, 1879, that I further postponed it till the 11th January, and actually opened it on the 20th January. It appeared to me that the most convenient form iv which the information could appear would be that of a schedule embracing, as far as possible, the various points forming the subject of the inquiry. I accordingly beg to submit the schedule marked A, attached hereto. With regard to the question of actual partition of the reserves in severalty, I have the honor to state that the Natives iuterested were not prepared with any such scheme of partition as would in any *vay be fair or convenient, aud I am of opinion that without actual subdivisional plans, which they saw-

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