No. 4.
The Hon. the Colonial Secretary to the Chief Protector.

With reference to your letter of the 20th ultimo, requesting His Excellency's sanction to the purchase of cattle for transfer to the Native chief Jowett, to complete the amount of consideration due to him, on behalf of the Ngatipaoa tribe, for land at Mahurangi, I am instructed to convey to you the Governor's authority for the purchase of four cows for the purpose above mentioned, and for traffic with the Natives generally.

You will therefore have the goodness to furnish the accounts to the Colonial Treasurer in the proper form, to enable that officer to prepare a warrant for the amount for His Excellency's signature.