(Enclosure in No. 1.)

The following abstract of title shows the manner in which the area of 1,000 acres (as yet unselected), claimed by Natives, in the Tairua Block, was reserved for them: Crown-granted to Natives 10th June, 1874, but legal title vested in them from 29th November, 1872. Conveyed by Natives to the page 93Queen on the 7th December, 1872, without any reservation expressed in the body of the deed. Proclaimed waste lands of the Crown, and made subject to provincial administration, on the 24th June, 1874. No reservation contained in the Proclamation, which in this respect corresponds with deed. Conveyance above alluded to, from Natives to the Queen, registered 15th July, 1874. Upon this instrument an indorsement, bearing no date, appears reserving 1,000 acres (position undefined) for the grantees. Proclaimed within the limits of the Hauraki Gold-Mining District on the 8th April, 1875. In this Proclamation the exception of 1,000 acres is made.