ing on actual occttpltftn ipU lianji&vement ; ai^WF. vidJiaJagtheyC'ihould'Pß ai.ftee if ally other of th« * inhabitants tff New Zealand to acquire and dispose of property in land." , _ .There is nothing but a local enactment, which can be repealed by a local legislature, to hinder the free pur chase from natives holding land in several ty Governor Grey, in his despatch to the Secretary of State"for the Colonies, dated 21st June, 1846, writes as follows, in favour of direct purchase :—: — "I propose to allow Europeans to purchase land directly from the natives on paying to the Govern ment a fee of 15s. an acre for every acre ot land so purchased. I propose, farther, that natives desirous to dispose of lands to Europeans should be required, in the first instance, to make application to the Government, stating the position and extent of the land they desire so to dispose of, and naming their own upset price for it. The native will then be required to prove his title to this land. If there it a probability of its being sold, it will be surveyed by the Government, and offered for sale at public auction, after proclamation made in the manner pre scribed by the Crown Lands Act. The purchasers will be requited to pay one-tenth of the fee, and one-tenth of the purchase-money immediately after* the sale, and the remaining portions of these sums within one month from that date, when the con firmatory grant will be issued, and the Government will pay' the natives the money for which the land was sold. If the land is not purchased at auction, it may, unless withdrawn from sale by the natives, be at any time purchased on the payment of the upset price and the Government fees. These regu lations will in fact place the native exactly in the position in which the- Crown stands under the Waste Lands Act of Australia, with the difference of the fees .paid to the Government, and the land sales will in every respect be conducted in- accordance with. ihejterms of that Act. 