Instructions requested.

10. Having stated the above circumstances for the information of the Governor-in-Chief, I have now the honor to request that I may be favored with His Excellency's instructions as to whether I should continue negotiations for the blocks at present offered, or whether the extension of the boundaries inland should be made a sine quá non; also as to whether, in the event of Takerei consenting to extend his boundary to a distance corresponding with the Manga Harakeke stream, His Excellency would approve of my re-opening the negotiation without reference to a purchase at Mokau.