1873. 29 March.Wairarapa District. This Deed made the twenty ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy three Between Her Majesty the Queen of the one part and Nireaha Tamaki, Kerei te Panau andMangatainoka No. 2. Meretene te Panau his wife, Horima Mutuahi, Renata Paehora, Pauroa Kaihinu, Tutere Tiweta, Wi Waka te Rangi, and Miriama te Rangi his wife, Urapane Pakaha,(Claims in Block.) Manahi Paewai, Teira te Panau, Wiremu Mahuri, Te Koeti te Harakoa, Mikaera Te Rangiputara, and Ihaka te Rangimauriora, aboriginal natives of New Zealand (hereinafter styled the partial vendors) of the other part, Whereas the partial vendors are or some or one of them is entitled to the parcel or block of land described in the schedule hereto in whole or in part, And whereas the partial vendors have contracted with His Honor William Fitzherbert Esquire Superintendent of the Province of Wellington acting on this behalf for and on account of Her Majesty the Queen that the said Superintendent shall make advances of money and goods to the partial vendors and as they may direct to be paid for and repaid respectively whenever such land shall be sold or allowed as part of the purchase money thereof in case the said William Fitzherbert or his successors Superintendents as aforesaid shall on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen become the purchaser or purchasers thereof, And whereas there has already been so advanced money or goods or both to the amount of Two hundred pounds sterling, Now these presents witness that in consideration of the sum of Three hundred and eighty pounds sterling by Her Majesty the Queen in manner aforesaid at or before theReceipt for £380. execution of these presents to the partial vendors paid and advanced (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged) they the partial vendors do and each of them doth hereby convey and assure and surrender unto Her Majesty the Queen her successors and assigns All the right title and interest of the partial vendors and each and every of them of in to or out of All that the piece or parcel or block of land in the Province of Wellington and Colony of New Zealand more particularly described in the schedule hereto and delineated in the plan drawn hereon, Together with all and singular commons and rights of common mines minerals furzes trees woods underwoods and the ground and soil thereof mounds fences hedges ditches ways waters water courses streams fishings fisheries fowlings, surface rights of shore and foreshore (if any) And all and singular other the appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or appertaining, to the intent that the same land mines and appurtenances may henceforth be and continue unto Her Majesty the Queen her successors and assigns as a security for the said sum of Three hundred and eighty pounds sterling and all other sums and sum of money or the price or prices of goods on the behalf of Her Majesty the Queen to be hereafter paid or delivered to the partial vendors or any or either of them or to any person at their request, In witness whereof the said parties hereto have hereunto set their hands.

Boundaries. [62,000 acres.] All that parcel of land being a portion of the Manawatu-Wairarapa block commonly known as the Seventy Mile Bush and estimated to contain sixty two thousand acres more or less, Bounded on the North by the Manawatu River on the East by the Makakahi and Tiraumea rivers and by Government land on the South by Govern-page 397ment land known as Manawatu block in the district of Wairarapa and by a portion of Pahiatua block and on the West by the Mangohao River and by Government land.

Declaration of James Grindell. I, James Grindell, of Wellington, in the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, a Licensed Native Interpreter, do solemnly and sincerely declare,—

1.

That I am a duly licensed Native Interpreter under "The Native Lands Act, 1865," and "The Native Lands Act, 1867."

2.

That I was present when the within-named Nireaha Tamaki, Kerei te Panau, Meretene te Panau, Horima Mutuahi, Renata Paehora, Pauroa Kaihinu, Tutere Tiweta, Wi Waka te Rangi, Miriama te Rangi, Urapane Pakaha, Manahi Paewai, Teira te Panau, Wiremu Mahuri, Te Koeti te Harakoa, Mikaera te Rangiputara, and Ihaka te Rangimauriora, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, duly executed the within-written Deed, and that before they executed the same I faithfully translated and explained the said Deed to them, and they appeared to perfectly understand the purport thereof, and executed the same in my presence and in the presence of James Thomson, an adult male European. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, under and by virtue of the provisions of "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1866," and "The Native Lands Act, 1867."