280 'Transactions.— Miscellaneous. 
however, a considerable number of pieces of burned bone, and a quantity 
of bone earth, or ashes, so that it is probable that bones were often used 
for fuel. Mixed with the Moa bones were bones of the seal and dog, as 
well as a large quantity of fish bones, with pipi and other shells, and a few 
human bones; and, lying about in all directions, but near the ovens, were 
parts of bone fish-hooks, stone net-sinkers, needles of bone and stone, 
flakes of obsidian and flint, and stone adzes of various kinds. Examples 
of all of these are shown in the drawings, by Mr. Hamilton, which illus- 
trate this paper; and it is to be observed that amongst them there is not a 
single bit of greenstone. From this omission I am led to believe that the 
Natives who here hunted the Moa were not acquainted with it. They were, 
no doubt, the first human inhabitants of the place, and were a hapu of the 
Ngatimamoe, who had worked their way down the coast from the Pelorus 
Sound, where, I am told, they first landed. After a time, they were either 
driven off or sueceeded by the Ngatikahungunu, who were not Moa-hunters, 
and were in turn expelled by the Ngatitoa, under Te Rauparaha and other 
chiefs. "These latter tribes had settlements all along the beach, from Lake 
Grassmere to Cape Campbell; and must at one time have lived there in 
considerable numbers. They also fought many battles along this part of 
the eoast. Upon making an examination of their old cooking and camping, 
places, I found a good number of stone tools of various kinds; many of 
them being of greenstone, and intended for a variety of purposes; and all 
of them are, as a rule, of much higher finish than those found with the 
remains of the Moa. Several of them were used for carving in wood ; and 
an old Maori, named Kelly, living at Port Gore, near the Pelorus Sound, . 
explained the uses of most of them to one of my sons a few months ago. 
Some of them are now, I believe, exceedingly rare, the Natives having ceased 
to make any since they became acqainted with the use of steel tools, and. 
all are interesting, as serving to illustrate a chapter in New Zealand history 
now fast drawing to its conclusion. 
Art. XXVI.— Notes on the system of Survey proposed by Mr. Thomson to be 
adopted for New Zealand, from a Legal point of View. By W. T. L. 
Travers, Esq., F.L.S., Barrister Supreme Court. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 24th February, 1877.] 
Tue paper read by Mr. Thomson before this society in September last, in 
which he seeks to justify his adoption of the “ Meridian Circuit system of 
Minor Triangulation,’ used by him in Otago, as the system best adapted 
for use in the survey of the waste lands of the Colony at large, is one which 
requires close criticism, not only at the hands of those who are more imme- 
