Enclosure 1 in No. 31.
Mr. H. T.
Clarke to the Hon. the
Colonial Secretary.
Sir,—
Referring to your letter of the 4th April, instructing me to inquire into and report upon certain questions relating to the Native Reserve at Dunedin, I have the honor to inform you that at the same date I also, in connection with another matter, addressed a letter to Mr. Assistant Native Secretary Strode, asking for information on the same subject. Copies of my letter and Mr. Strode's reply thereto I herewith enclose.
As two or three weeks must elapse before the Natives interested in the sale of Stewart's Island can return from their Mutton Bird Expedition, I purpose, to save time, to go to Dunedin by next mail steamer, to inquire into this and other matters relating to the Natives.
I have, &c.,
The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Native Department.
H. T. Clarke.