Translation.
I have received
1856. 17 January. Pahaoa.
from Mr. McLean on this day, the seventeenth 17 of the days of January, in the year of Our Lord 1856 the sum of Three Hundred and Fifty PoundsReceipt for £350.
£350 . 0 . 0 these being part of the monies as specified in the principal deed, as agreed to by Mr. McLean and ourselves, written on the 3rd day of January 1854, and therein specified to be paid to us in this the month of January being the final instalment for these portions of land. The remaining payment is to be given to us when the inland boundaries are perambulated.In token of our having received this sum on this day, we hereunto sign our names.
Witnesses—
(Signed) Manihera R., J.P.
Elwin B. Dickson.
Signed
Hoera Wakataha.
A True Copy of Original Receipt and Translation.
Wellington, January 31st, 1876.