No. 13.
Chief Te Keene to His
Excellency the Governor-in-Chief.
Friends!
Mr. Geddes has come to me, saying that his land has been given to Kati. We told him that we had no authority over this matter. We gave the land to Mr. Geddes after his giving us property for it, as a place for him and his heirs for ever. Friends! our hearts are very troubled about this matter.
From your Friend,
Te Keene.
The writer is one of the Ngatiwhatua tribe, who sold the land now occupied, or rather laid out as a Native village at Mangere; the real grievance being that the future occupants are to be a tribe or tribes from Waikato, and hence the jealousy of the writer and some of his tribe.
C. W. W. Ligar.
10th March, 1849,