(4.) Waikanae and Otaki.

This class of claimants amounts in number to 137. They also abandoned their possessions on this block, and fled South from the Waikato tribes, and, after sojourning some time at Kapiti and elsewhere, settled down at Waikanae and in its neighbourhood. None ever returned to repossess themselves of any portion of this block except Rawiri Motutere, who came back and cultivated the soil since 1840. We therefore admit his claim. We also admit the claim of Wi Tamihana Te Neke, who on the sale of the Tataraimaka Block to the Crown, came back and asserted his right to a portion of the payment. His right was admitted by the tribe, and it has not been proved to the Court that any protest or objection was made by the Agent for the Crown. As the Crown, therefore, has tacitly admitted his right, we do not feel that we can now exclude him on the ground of his never having re-occupied. One letter from Waikanae, purporting to be signed by 125 persons, asserting a title to "land from Waitaha to Mokau, and from Okurukuru to Nukumaru, and protest-page 12ing against the land being stolen (keia, translated "confiscated,') has been referred to us by the Colonial Secretary, and we reject it as in no way being a claim, nor even purporting to be so.