1. Cape Colville Block.

This is of considerable extent; the area of unsold lands may be roughly estimated at 50,000 acres. After deducting the pieces required for Native reserves, the area available for settlement is but limited, the greater proportion of the block being hilly, timbered country—unfit for cultivation. Gold has at various times been discovered in several places within its limits, but no mining claims are at present page 323occupied there. Some pieces of land have been sold to Europeans, but they form but a small proportion to the whole. The kauri timber at Cabbage Bay, Tangiaro, Matamataharakeke, and the northern portion of Kennedy Bay has been sold to Europeans owning saw-mills. I have surveyors employed on the external boundaries of this block at the present time. The title is much disputed.