▲ meeting of the Native Committee was held at the City Board Boom en Saturday forenoon. Mr. Kwa-ison sUted that he hud gone to Onehungaon th> preceding day to see if the large canoe lying thtra, the • Toke a-Tapiri,' could be made available on the approaching virit of his Royal Highness. j This oanoe, we may Msate, was bonght by the Ngati* ttata, of Waiuku, from a southern tribe, for the sum of £500 cash, which, we believe, was considered ft moderate price. At the beginning of the war, a party of Naval Volunteers went out on the Manukao, and, finding the ' Toke-a-Tapiri' in the creek, seized her. Mr. H. Monro, now Judge Monro, accompanied the expedition as interpreter, and told the volunteers on no account to tonoh the canoe, us she belonged to friendly natives. His remonstrances were, however, unheeded ; the volunteers wanted a trophy of tbeir valour, and brought the canoe in triumph to One* hnnga. There she was drawn up in the Custom house yard, and being carelessly placed, and ex posad to all weather, has received considerable damage. The Ministry of that day offered the canoe aa a present to Sir George Grey, who said that if they would put her in order he would give her back again to the Waiuku people, from whom she ongbt never to have been taken. Nothing was done by the Government, and the Waiuku people h*re now a claim o£ £500 before Mr. Beckham's Court for the canoe, and there can be no doubt they are entitled to the money. In the meantime Paul, on behalf of the Ngatiwhatua of Orakei and Kaipara, says that if the cracks in the body of the canoe are repaired so th«t she can float, he will decorate her so as to be available for the approaching visit of the Prince. But the com mittee feel a difficulty in the matter. The General Government lament that the canoe was ever touched, and will not hare anything to do with her. His Excellency says, we believe, that he never accepted her j the Waiuku people state that the Government took the canoe, and that now they have nothing to say ia the matter. However, the $Tative Committee will take steps to ascertain what it would cost to have her brought over to the Waitemata and re paired. 