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the presence of their assembled tribes, of the tract of land thrown in the said claim, and the Commissioner begs respectfully to recommend, in accordance with the 6th clause of the Land Claims Ordinance, that Crown grants should be given to claimant of two thousand six hundred and fifty acres (2650 acres) of the land situated within the block which claimant purchased from the Natives, as described in claim No. 39.

George Hempleman was not at all pleased with Mr. Commissioner Campbell’s report. He considered that he had fairly bought the fifteen square miles of country for which he dealt with Bloody Jack and the other chiefs, and that the Government should give him a Crown grant. He went to Wellington shortly after the report was made public, to press his claim, and he refused to accept the 2650 acres in compensation. The Government, as a matter of course, stood by the report of their Commissioner. In the meantime the Government gave instructions to have the 2650 acres surveyed, and Mr, Boys was sent instructions to that effect, as will be seen by the following letter:—

Sir,—As I am desirous of not interfering with surveys which it may soon be requisite to make up the country, and regarding which I have fully communicated with Government, I have to request that at your earliest convenience you will be so good as to arrange that the lands shown beneath, situated in Banks Peninsula, may be surveyed for Mr. George Hempleman, of Akaroa, for whom Crown grants of them will as usual be prepared.

Directions will be given to Mr Hempleman to