At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board' yes terday plan-* and schedules were laid before the Board of certain confiscated lands. Mr Tole then read the letter, and submitted the docu ments. The total area of land composed 01,600 acres, SOOO of which were surveyed. After some discussion, it was resolved that the Govern ment be requested to pla ;& the land under the administration of the Board.—The Chairman said the amended terms on which the Board had decided to make an additional grant of land to Mr George Vesey Stewart, had been ap proved by the Governor. A letter had also come to hand instructing the Board to deal with the land under the special clauses of the Waste Lands' A ct of 1874. fiThe Board thereupon passed the necessary resolutions in relation to the land. Five Tenders had been received for the right to dig for gum iv the dis tricts of Tairua and Ohinenmri. —Mr Tonks considered the sums offered as ridi culous, and moved that the tenders bo not accepted, which was carried. The report of Mr Campbell, surveyor, was read in relation to Urawhao Block, stating that a portion was good, and a portion swampy, but which could be remedied by draining. Mr Percy Smith confirmed this opinion. The Board resolved, " That the land should be offered for sale in lots of 300 acres each: that a voad should be laid out throughout the block, and provision made for drainage by two cross roads,"

Thames Settlement Association. — A com munication was read from Mr Davis, Chairman of this Association, respecting a number of suitable blocks of land, for which a previous application had been made. As the Hoard could not deal with the matter at present, the Chairman was desired to write to Air Davis, ex plaining the circumstances. SUNDRY Matters. —The remaining business consisted in reading letters from Mr Balk, of Monyonui. respecting- compensation in land; Messrs Waller and Co., asking that land at Muddy Creek might be put up for sale, which was granted ; a^d respecting the dangerous state of Mount JKden gravel pit. With respect to the latter, the Board resolved that endeavours Should be made by prison labour to put it in a safe condition. It was also resolved that the Governor be desired to reserve Mount Hobson as an ornamental pleasure ground.
