Extract from the New Zealand Advertiser, Wellington, 10th December, 1866.

The Manawatu Purchase.

(From our own Correspondent.)

* * * "The principal, if not the real owners of the land, the Ngatiraukawa page xcviii tribe were conspicuous by their absence. * * * The Ngatiraukawa have for some time back stated their intention of carefully abstaining from appearing at the meeting, and so determined are they to carry out this policy that the majority have removed to Otaki during the meeting, lest they should be tempted to accept any portion of the purchase money. * * * Probably, when the history of the Manawatu purchase is written, it will be admitted that never has a Government so systematically countenanced an injustice as this attempt at forcible purchase, and never have a body of men, supposed to be on the eve of rebellion, shown more patience in peaceably asserting their own rights than the Ngatiraukawa Tribe."