A compendium of official documents relative to native affairs in the South Island, Volume One.

Contents of Volume I

Contents of Volume I.

Introductory	Page.
Abstract of Purchases made in the South Island	3
Public Documents relating to the Establishment of the Colony of New Zealand	9
Commissioner Spain's Report and Award on the New Zealand Company's Purchase of the Nelson District	49
Nanto-Bordelaise Claim, Bane's Peninsula	75
Return of Land Claims in the South Island	81
Otakou Purchase, and Correspondence	95
a. Dunedin and Port Chalmers Reserves Correspondence	107
b. Lighthouse Reserve, Taiaroa Head, Correspondence	197
Wairau Purchase	201
Kemp's Purchase, and Correspondence	207
a. Mr. Mantell's Report on the Geology of a Portion of the Middle Island	223
b. Complaint by Matiaha Tiramorehu respecting the insufficiency of the Reserves set apart for the Natives within Kemp's Purchase	227
c. Correspondence relative to the Hakataramea Reserve, Canterbury	231
d. Correspondence relative to the exchange of other land in lieu of the Kakaunui Reserve, Otago	235
e. Correspondence relative to claims to Kaitoeete, Canterbury	237
Captain Stoke's Report on the Capabilities of Port Cooper as a Settlement	245
Port Cooper and Port Levi Purchases, with Correspondence	249
a. Correspondence relative to Claims to Quail Island, port Cooper	261
Waitohi Purchase, and Correspondence	263
Captain Stoke's Report on the Southern Part of New Munster	269
Murihiku Purchase, and Correspondence	271
Pakawau Purchase, North of Aorere, Massacre Bay	289
Middle Island Purchases, and Correspondence	293
a. Correspondence concerning the Native Reserve at West Wanganui, Nelson	321
b. Correspondence concerning White's Bay Reserve, Wairau	329
c. Adjustment of the Boundary of the Native Reserve at Wakapuaka	383
d. Correspondence relative to ihe Relinquishment of oertain Sections at Motupipi, Massacre Bay, in favour of the Natives	385