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

Report—Nanto-Bordelaise, Claimants

Report—Nanto-Bordelaise, Claimants.

The Commissioners have the honor to report, for the information of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, that from the accompanying evidence taken in this claim to "All Banks Peninsula, in the Middle Island of New Zealand, with the exception of the Bay of Hikuraki, Oihoa on the South, and Sandy Beach, north of Port Cooper, on the North, the boundaries," the supposed con[gap — reason: damage]ts 30,000 acres,—

It appe[gap — reason: damage] no deed or memorandum to Captain Langlois, through whom the claimants derive, has been proved to have been executed by the Natives in the year 1838, nor has any Native evidence been produced of the contract for this purchase having been made in 1838; but George Fleuret, a European, deposes to his belief that an agreement was then made by Captain Langlois for the purchase of some quantity of land from the Natives.

No deed has been exhibited to the Court in proof of the transfer made by Captain Langlois to the Company; but such a transfer of his interest may be assumed from the evidence of Mons. S. de Beligny. The Native chiefs, Iuika, Tuauau, Tikao, Parure Nga Mana, and others, have admitted the sale to Captain Langlois in August 1840, of the following portions of land in Banks Peninsula:—