No. 11.
Mr. Commissioner
Johnson to the Chief Commissioner.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th instant, conveying his Excellency's authority for concluding the purchase of the Wainui Block, and forwarding the sum of Six hundred pounds (£600) for that purpose. This sum has bee paid by me this day to the claimants assembled at the village on the Native Reserve, and the subsequent further division of the same amongst themselves, and the amounts which have been devoted to appease the jealousy of the Ngatiwhatua has entirely set at rest any apprehension which may have existed of uneasiness in that quarter.
I beg to enclose the deed from the Natives to the Crown, duly signed and executed according to your general instructions and precedent furnished, as far as the circumstances will permit.
I have, &c.,
John Grant Johnson, District Commissioner.Donald McLean, Esq., Land Commissioner.