[Translation.]

Salutations to you. Your surveyor, Mr. Brunner, has arrived, and has surveyed the boundary about which we conversed with you. We have seen his survey, and the boundary is quite correct, according to our idea, as it has been laid down on the plan; and we have signed our names to it. The part coloured red is that which has been reserved for us; the white is that for the Pakehas; and the boundary is between.

This is all we have to say to you. By us,