With reference to your letter of the 6th instant relative to gifts of land by Natives to half-caste children, urging the importance of some immediate steps being taken for a settlement of their claims, and stating the bearings of the question upon your present negotiations for land purchases, having brought the subject under the notice of His Excellency's Government, I am directed to inform you that you may propose to the Natives as a term of the contracts entered into with them to secure portions of lands of moderate extent out of the purchased blocks to be granted to half-caste children, all such arrangements being of course subject to His Excellency's approval.