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from a distance came and openly rented the land from the natives, which would be neither more nor less than is now done by them.

There is not, in my opinion, nor can there be any real justification for a continued trespass on native lands, and I believe the majority of the inhabitants of this Province are agreed in the desirability of putting an immediate stop to it, whenever it can be shewn to exist. In order to effect this, I would suggest that persons should be appointed for different districts to lay informations under the Act, at the instance either of the Native Land Purchase Commissioner of the District, or of the Superintendent of the Province, for the time being; as, in some cases, where a single Commissioner might, from the disagreeable nature of the duty, feel disinclined to act, no such difficulty would be felt by a Superintendent, supported by his executive and the public opinion of those who are most interested in future acquisition of the rest of the land still unpurchased from the natives.

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
(Signed) T. H. FITZGERALD,
Superintendent.

The Honorable
The Colonial Secretary,
Auckland.

60-89.
Superintendent's Office,
Napier, March 3, 1860.

SIR,—I had the honor to address you on the 12th December, on the subject of putting strictly in force for the future the Native Land Purchase Ordinance in this Province—the necessity of which being felt more and more every day,—I have the honor to request a reply at your earliest convenience.

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
(Signed) T. H. FITZGERALD,
Superintendent.

The Honorable
The Colonial Secretary,
Auckland.

No. 219.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, May 7, 1860.

SIR,—With reference to your Honor's two letters and to Mr. Stafford's reply, of the dates noted in the margin, on the subject of strictly enforcing for the future, the Native Land Purchase Ordinance (Session 7, No. 10), in the Province of Hawke's Bay, I have to inform you that under a Gazette Notice by Governor Grey, dated the 6th November, 1848, Officers of the Armed Police Force are authorised to lay informations in terms of the 1st Section of that Ordinance; and, to avoid any question as to this authority, I enclose a Warrant of Appointment under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, authorising all Officers of the Police Force of the Province of Hawke's Bay to lay informations under the Ordinance in question.

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
(Signed) HENRY JOHN TANCRED,
For the Colonial
Secretary.

His Honor
The Superintendent,
Napier.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-admiral of the same, &c., &c.

In pursuance and in exercise of the power vested in me in that behalf by an Ordinance passed by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand and the Legislative Council thereof, in the tenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled "An Ordinance to provide for the Prevention by Summary Proceedings of Unauthorised Purchases and Leases of Land" (Session 2, No. 19,) I, Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor of New Zealand, hereby authorise and empower every Officer of the Police Force of the Province of Hawke's Bay to lay informations and complaints under the Ordinance.

Given under my hand at the Government House at Auckland, this eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
T. GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command,
HENRY JOHN TANCRED.

Entered on Record in Register of Patents, No. 2, Folio 253, this eleventh day of May, 1860.
(Signed) W. GISBORNE,
For the Colonial Secretary and Registrar.

NATIVE LAND PURCHASE
ORDINANCE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the provisions of the above Ordinance, the principal clauses of which are