WHEREAS the Native Affairs Committee of the Legislative Council, reporting on the twenty-second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, on a petition of Horomona Paatu, recommended that he should be granted certain unappropriated swamp land on the Aparima Reserve, in satisfaction of all his claims to the said reserve, but the said Horomona Paatu has refused to accept the said land; and various efforts having been made to arrive at a satisfactory arrangement in the matter, the said Horomona Paatu has consented to accept the lands hereinafter mentioned in full satisfaction of his claims as aforesaid, and it is expedient that the Governor, should be authorised to make a grant of the last-mentioned lands accordingly: