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(Enclosure 2 in No. 48.)
Claims ofTe Hapukuand Tareha finally extinguished.
Kua riro mai i a mana i tenei te 11st o nga ra o Noema 1874 nga moni e Rima
Rau1873. 11 November. pauna Na Tanara Makarini i utu mai ki a maua mo o maua panga piringa
ranei ki teneiSeventy-Mile Bush. whenua i roto i nga rohe o te whenua e mohiotia ana Ko Tamaki Ko te 70
tekau maeroReceipt for £500. puihi. Ko te ahua o taua whenua kua whakaaturia i roto ite pukapuka hoko
o Tamaki[Claims of Te Hapuku and
Tareha.] ki a te Kuini o Ingarangi tuhia i te 16th o nga ra o Akuhata 1871. A ko
tenei e tino tuku rawa atu ana i o maua panga piringa ranei ki taua whenua kua
whakahuatia imua ake nei ki a Kuini Wikitoria ki ona kai riwhi i muri iho i a
ia.
[ko te tohutoro i roto i te reo Māori]
Translation.
We have received this Eleventh day of November One thousand
Eight hundred and1874. 11 November. Seventy four (1874) the sum of Five hundred (£500) pounds, which the
Honorable SirSeventy-Mile Bush.
Donald McLean has paid to us, in
consideration of all our claims to land contained within the boundaries of the
land known as Tamaki or Seventy Mile Bush Block,Receipt for £500 . the full description of which land is contained in the Deed of Sale of
Tamaki Block to the[Claims of Te Hapuku and
Tareha.] Queen of England dated the sixteenth (16th) day of August One thousand
Eight hundred and Seventy one (1871) We hereby finally surrender all our claims
to the above lands to Victoria the Queen of England and Her Successors for ever.
Hapuku.
Tareha.
Signed by the said Te Hapuku and Tareha the deed having been first translated and explained to them in the presence of—
J. P. Hamlin, Licd.
Interpreter of Napier.
S. Locke,
J.P., Napier.
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation, Two Enclosures, and Endorsement.
Wellington, July 18th, 1877.