Services therein as by Us shall from time to time be prescribed by Instructions to be issued in pursuance of the said Act of Parliament, under our Signet and Sign Manual, with the advice of our Privy Council -"

And whereas, by the said Letters Patent, We did reserve to ourselves, our heirs, and successors, full power and authority to amend, and for that purpose to add to, or, if necessary, repeal the said Instructions :

And whereas it is expedient that the hereinbefore recited clause of the said Instructions should be amended:

We do therefore declare, by these our Instructions, given under our Signet and Sign Manual and approved in our Privy Council, that so much of the said recited clause as prescribes the mode of expending the net balance therein referred to, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that the said net balance shall be by Us held in trust for defraying the cost of introducing into the said Colony Emigrants from the United Kingdom, or in trust for defraying the costs of such other public services in respect of the said colony as shall be from time to time prescribed by or in pursuance of any Instructions issued by Us, under our Signet and Sign Manual, and approved by our Privy Council.

And whereas by virtue of certain proclamations issued or to be issued within the colony of New Zealand, certain parts of the said colony have been or may hereafter be divided into Hundreds:

And whereas it may be expedient that part of the proceeds arising from the sale of Crown Lands within, the said Hundreds, should be applied in such manner as may be specified by the Wardens or other proper authorities thereof :

We do hereby further declare that it shall be competent for the Governor or Officer administering the Government of the said Colony, to authorize the application of any proportion not exceeding one-third of the gross proceeds of the sales of Crown Lands effected within the limits of any such Hundred, towards such purposes as shall be signified to him by the Wardens of such Hundred, or by such other authorities thereof as shall be designated for that purpose by any Ordinance to be passed by the Legislature of the said Colony, subject nevertheless to such restrictions and regulations as shall be imposed by such Ordinance.

V. R.

No. 50.
Downing Street,
August 13th, 1850.

Sir,—I have not failed to bestow my most careful consideration on your despatches of the numbers and dates specified in the margin, explaining the grounds on which you had been induced to propose to the Legislature an Ordinance "for Quieting Titles to Land in the Province of New Ulster," and sending a copy of that Ordinance itself, to be submitted to Her Majesty.

2. The effect of this important measure is to confirm to the numerous land claimants under direct purchases from the natives, the large tracts of land to which they assert a right, or, in cases where this may be impossible from the previous rights of the natives themselves, to confer upon the European claimants an equivalent out of the general landed territory of the Crown. It is needless for me to recapitulate on this occasion, the slight grounds, in equity, of many of the claims in question, or the injurious tendency to the public interest of finally placing in the possession of individuals such extensive tracts of land for which they have mostly given but a trifling consideration. These views have often been stated before. The best proof of the extent to which you have been alive to them has been evinced by the resistance which, in spite of much obloquy and unjustifiable opposition, you have properly offered to the establishment of these large demands.

3. The more deliberate and persevering your resistance to these demands has been, the more I am now disposed to place confidence in the conclusion at which you have arrived, to relinquish further opposition to them; and I agree with you, that the state of the law, as declared by the Judges of the Supreme Court, renders it indispensable to settle rather than to dispute these claims any further. And, I feel that to expose the colony to some years more of uncertainty and litigation on this agitating subject would do more injury to the colony than protracted discussion, though ultimately successful, could do good.

4. As I concur in this opinion, I have only to convey to you my sense of the skill and foresight, and the regard for the various interests concerned, with which the details of the measure appear to have been framed, and I am satisfied that the colony will hereafter appreciate the advantages which will be derived from the settlement you have effected; I trust that it may be productive of peace and content in the Province of New Ulster, and that the animosities to which the question gave rise, may speedily be laid aside and forgotten.

5. I have not seen sufficient reason to introduce any Bill into Parliament for the purpose of giving additional authority to the Ordinance.

6. It only remains for me to apprize you that I have laid this Ordinance before the Queen, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to confirm and allow the same, and I have to instruct you to publish it by proclamation, in the usual and most authentic manner.

I have, &c., &c.,

(Signed)
GREY.

Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.,
&c., &c., &c.

No. 58.
Downing Street,
13th August, 1850.

Sir,—With reference to my Despatch, No. 48, of the 5th instant, I herewith transmit to you additional instructions, which the Queen has been pleased to issue, under the Royal