Translation.
This Document
conveying land written on this the (11th) Eleventh day of January inWairarapa District.
Kuhangawariwari.Receipt for | £1,000 |
Received cash— 14 Oct., 1853 | 300 |
£1,300 |
Native reserves.
The portion of land as set apart for the Bishop is excepted for him out of this sale of land, also a portion of (1000) one thousand acres is to be given to us at some future time as a cultivation for us and as a possession. These being the only portion for us, We have entirely given up and bidden farewell to this land inherited from our forefathers with its rivers, its streams, its lakes, its springs, its timbers, grass and stones, with its plains and fertile spots, its sterile parts and everything above the surface or under the surface and everything thereunto belonging, we now for ever deliver up and transfer to the Queen of England and to the Kings or Queens who may succeed Her for ever.In testimony of our consent to all the conditions of this Deed we hereunto affix our names and marks, and in testimony of the full consent of the Queen of England to the conditions of this Deed the name of Donald McLean Principal Commissioner for purchase of Native Lands is also hereunto affixed.
Donald McLean,
Land Commissr.
Manihera Rangitakaiwaho.
Ihaia te Wakairu.
Ko Wiremu
Waka.
Te Ropiha te Waitai x.
Wiremu Kingi Tamawhiti x.
Mimoma
te Rangi.
Ihaka Te Aho x.
Paora Rawhatu.
Te Koroneho.
Renata Kaiwaewae x.
Piriki Pou x.
Hapiata Ohau x.
Hanita
Titi.
Tamihana Kawhanga x.
Tamati Hapiman.
Ripeka Ngahe
x.
Te Wharenui x.
Katerina Tokitahi x.
Ko Nini.
Te Kete
x.
Horomona Paraweke.
Ko Poti x her mark.
Matini Warahi.
Hanetaka.
Na Ihaka Watarau.
Witnesses to these receipts of money and signature—
(Signed) Wm. Kirton,
Minr. Scotch Church, Wellington.
John McBeth,
Merchant, Willis St., Wellington.
John P. Russell, Settler, Wangai Moana, Wairarapa.
Purvis Russell,
Sheepfarmer, Ahuriri.
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
Wellington, February 15th, 1876.