DEEDS OF PURCHASE OF LAND IN THE MIDDLE ISLAND.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1858 Session I, C-04

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DEEDS OF PURCHASE OF LAND IN THE MIDDLE ISLAND.

Return to an Order of the Honourable the House of Representatives, dated \9>th June, 1858, (Mr. Hall.)

COPIES of all DEEDS of PURCHASE of LAND from Aboriginal Natives in the MIDDLE ISLAND.

C. W. Richmond. Treasury, 6th August, 1858.

AUCKLAND: 1858.

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MEMOKANDUM. 31st July, 1858. Copie3 of original Deeds of purchase of Land from the Natives in the Middle Island, with translations thereof, called for by the House of Representatives, and furnished herewith. 1. Deed of Conveyance executed at Akaroa on the 12th June, 1848, for purchase made by Mr. Kemp of lands between the boundary line of land sold by the Ngatitoa in the Canterbury and Nelson Provinces in 1847, and of the Nelson Block on the North ; —arid the boundary of Mr. Symond's purchase, from Milford Haven to the Kaihiku Mountains, and thence to Tokata on the south ; Receipts for £500, June 12, 1848 ; ditto, £500, February 22, 1849 ; ditto, £1000, December 28, 1849 ; together with copy of the plan attached. There is no record or copy of Mr. Symond's Deed above referred to in this office. 2. Deed of Murihiku Block, purchased by Mr, M antell; lying south of Mr. Kemp's southern boundary, and including the whole of the Southern part of the Middle Island. 3. Conveyance by the Natives of Akaroa, of the remainder of their lands on Banks' Peninsula, executed on the 10th December, 1856. 4. Conveyance by the Natives in the neighbourhood of Canterbury, of lands extending from Kaiapoi on the North, to the Rakahauri River on the South. Copies of the Deeds of Purchases in the Nelson Province have been deposited in the Office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Nelson. I submit, that copies of the Deeds of Purchases in the Provinces of Canterbury and Otago should , be transmitted to the Resident Magistrates of those Provinces ; to be kept as Records, and for reference when occasion may require. I have transmitted the above, as the only Deeds now registered in this office which have any reference to those Provinces. The original Deed of the cession by the Ngatitoa of their claims to land in part of the Canterbury and Nelson Provinces, is most probably deposited with the records of the late Civil Secretary's Office, New Munster. There are copies of the Deeds of cession by the Ngatitoa and others of the Nelson Provinces, executed in 1853, 1854, 185(i ; but as these are recorded in the Nelson Province, it may be unnecessary to furnish copies of them at the present time. (Signed) Donald McLean. No. 1. Hear O all ye people ! We the Chiefs and People of Ngaitahu, who have signed our names and marks to this Deed on this twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, consent to surrender for ever to William Wakefield, the Agent of the New Zealand Company established in London, that is to their Directors, our lands and all our territorial possessions lying along- the shores of this sea, commencing at Kaiapoi at the land sold by Ngatitoa, and at the boundary of Whakatu, and thence on to Otakoa, and on, till itjoins the boundary of the block purchased by Mr. Symonds, running from this sea to the mountain of Kaihiku, and on tiil it comes out at the other sea at Wakatipu Maitai (Milford Haven). But the land is more accurately defined on the P!an. Our places of residence and our cultivations are to be reserved for us and our children after us. And it shall be for the Governor hereafter to set apart some portion for us when the land is surveyed by the surveyors, but the greater part of the land is unreservedly given up for the Europeans for ever. The payment made to us is Two Thousand Pounds, to be paid to us in four instalments : paid to us this day Five Hundred, in the next instalment Five Hundred, in the next Five Hundred, and in the • last Five Hundred, making a total of Two Thousand Pounds. And the signing of our names and marks, being the token of our full consent, is done at this place, at Akaroa, on the twelfth of June, 1848. The names of the Witnesses :— The mark of Tairoa, John Tikao, Maopo, x John Pere, (Signed) R. A. Olliver, Paora Tau, x Tiaki, x, Com. H.M.S. Fly. Tainui, x Ko te Hau, x Koti, x Matiaha, T. Bull, . Karetai, Ihaia, Lieut. Pohau, Waruwarutu, Wiremu Te Rahi, Taki, John Watson, Solomon Pohio, Ko Rirawa, Res, Magistrate. Te 'Whaikai Pokene, Korehe, Rangivvhakana, Poriohua, Charles H. Kettle, J. P., Potiki, x Wiremu, Principal ; urveyor, N.Z. Co. Tiare Weteri, Ko Hape, Ko Tare te Haruru, Pukutrai, If. Tacy Kemp, J. P., Haereroa, Tuav.au, Commissioner. Tiraki, Tuahuru, James Bruce, Te Matahara, Te Hau, ■ Settler. By proxy, Tairoa and Ko Te Uki, Solomon for Topi, Manabi. Kikau, son of Tahawaiki, and Te Korako,

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Hakaroa, February 22, 1849. On this day was paid to us the second instalment for our lands, herein described. Five Hundred Pounds (£500) were handed over to us. Mr. Mantel!, Commissioner for extinguishing Native Claims, divided the money among us. The nanies of the Witnesses : — (Signed) Robert Stokes, The mark of Tairoa, x Rawiri Te Mamaru, Captain H.M.S. Acheron, Pohau, Maharuharu, D. Lyall '• r ° ,lll Ka!}lau . * Kahuti. x Surgeon H.M.S. Acheron. John Tikao, Ko Karutai, T , w , Paora Tau, John Topi, x John Watson, _ Tarawata, x Paitui, Resident Magistrate. I?awiri Te MamarU) Matthias Tiramorehu J. W. Hamilton, Noa Paka, H. S. Cudland, John Rere ' Architect and C.E. Je One le Uk, ' Walter Mantel], Commissioner.

Received from Walter Mantel!, Esquire, Commissioner for extinguishing Native Titles to land in the Middle Island, New Zealand, the sums set opposite to our respective names being the distribution of the third and the last combined instalments on the purchase of the Ngaitahu block, including the whole of the lands specified in the Deed of Conveyance executed at Akaroa, on the twelfth day of June, 1848. *

Witnesses to the signatures and distribution at Akaroa, December 28, 1849 :— (Signed) John Watson, Resident Magistrate. Oeta Canington, Henry Joseph, T. Lillwood, Walter Mantell, Commissioner, Henere.

Names of Chiefs to whom paid. Tribes. Amounts Signatures. QP4 Witnesses to payment. Karetai Hoani Korako Hoani Korako Noa Paka Haereroa Kahuti Te Marama } Wiremu Potiki ( TareWetereTeKahu f Paitu I Horomona Mauku ) Paihi ) Tarawata Horomona Pohio Taiaroa Pohau Tiakikai Timaru Tainui Te One Te Uki Wiremu Karavvheke Topi John Tarawata Taiaroa Horomona Pohio Tiakikai Timaru Matiaha Tiramorehu Ilawiri Kapuanui Tanahira Waruwarutu Te One Tβ Uki Ihaia Taiawa Tainui Kiri Tawha John Topi Pita Te Hori Aperahama te Ahika AViremu Hape Tawha Hone Paratene Gatihawea Gatimokihi Gatimokihi Gatihurihia Gatihuirapa Gaiterakiamoa Gaiteruahikihiki Gaitaoka Gatimamoe Gatihuirapa G aiteruahikihiki Gatikoko Gatihurihia Gatiwaewae Gaiturakipawa Gatirakiamoa Gaitaoka Gatimamoe Gaiteruahikihiki Gatihuirapa Gatihurihia Gatihikatutai Gaitamahaki Gaituahuriri Gaiturakipawa Gaitekahukura Gaitewaewae Gatiaioki Gatimatamata Gaitaoka Gaituapawa Gatihurihia Gaiteaotamarewa Gaituhaitera Gaiterakimoa £ 30 30 30 30 110 60 80 30 30 30 20 20 80 80 40 40 40 20 20 20 10 10 K) 10 10 10 i0 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 20 10 10 10 10 Karetai John Wesley Korako John Wesley Korako Noa Paka x Witness, A. C. Strode x Witness, A. C. Strode x Witness, A. C. Strode i Witness, A. C. Strode Kahu Pitoo Koromana Mauku x Witness, A. C. Strode x Tarawata Koromona Pohio x Tiiiaroa Pokau x Tiakikai Tunaru g x Tainui <J x WiremuKorawheko Te One te Uki John Topi gf x Tarawata g x Taiaroa £? Solomon Pohio w> x Tiakikai J^ Matiaha Tiramaehu t£ x Rawiri [warutu^J Natauahira Waru- cL Te One Te Uki w Ihaia Taihura |jp x Tainui S x Riri - I Tawa o x John Topi ►§ Pita Te Hori F" x Aperahama Te Ahika William Wihil Tawha Hoani Paratene O o CD I cr o CD < CD 0 $ d> 3 d5' I Sγ" c eu a* § p5 s •f 8. a George Whitby, A. S. Collins, A. C. Strode, J.P., Dep. Imp. Police, Walter Mantell, Commissioner for Ex. Native Claims, John Macarthy, !->ub. Collector H. M. Customs, Ko Papakone, John Watson, R.M., Henry Joseph, Octa Carrington, T. Lilwood,

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No. 2. Let all the nations know, We the Chiefs and all the people of all the lands lying within the boundaries hereunder written, derived through our ancestors from whom it descended to us, the plan whereof is hereunto annexed, have written our names and marks as the act of consent of us, for ourselves, for our relations, for our families, for our heirs now living, and our descendants who shall be born after us, —entirely to give up all those our lands which have been negotiated for the boundaries of which have been described, and the plan whereof is annexed to this Deed of Conveyance to Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, Her Heirs and Successors for ever, as a lasting possession for Her or for the Europeans to whom Her Majesty, or rather His Excellency the Governor shall consent that it shall be given. And whereas we have agreed entirely to give up our land lying within the boundaries hereunder written ; Walter Mantel! the Commissioner for extinguishing Native Claims (by virtue of the authority given to him by His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, to arrange and determine the price to be paid for these lands), agrees that he will pay us the sum of Two Thousand Pounds sterling ; the manner of payment to be as follows :—The money shall be divided into two portions. In the first instalment there shall be One Thousand Pounds (£1000), which shall have been paid to us at Otakou when all the people shall have assembled. The second instalment of One Thousand Pounds (£1000), shall be paid at Awaroa in the month in which the money arrives. The whole of the monies of these payments being added together, they shall amount to the sum of Two Thousand Pounds (£2000), as agreed upon above. Now these are the boundaries of the lands which have been alienated. The boundary commences at Milford Haven (the name given to that place in Mr. Kemp's Deed is Wakatipu, but by the Maories it is called Piupiutahi) thence to Kaihihu, thence to Tokata, strictly following the old boundary line of Messrs. Kemp and Symonds, and by the Coast from Milford Haven round to Tokata, with Tamaka .Rawtoka Motupiu and all the islands lying adjacent to the shore (excepting the Ruapuke group) and all the lands within those boundaries with the anchorages and landing places, with the rivers, the lakes, the woods, and light bush, with all things whatsoever within those places, and in all things lying thereupon. A more accurate description and rej resentation of the land is given in the plan hereunto annexed. All the lands and all other things above enumerated, and which lie within the boundaries above recited have been entirely surrendered to Her Majesty the Queen for ever and ever. But those portions of land which have been set apart by Mr. Mantell and surveyed by C. Kettle, Esq., J.P., Government Surveyor at Tuturau, Omaui, One, Aparitna, Otaka, Kawakaputaputa, and Onetoto, marked with the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7, and coloured yellow, are for ourselves as lasting possessions for us and for our children for ever. The only portions for ourselves are those just named. We also agree that the portions which have been reserved for us shall not be sold without the consent of His Excellency the Governor. And if His Excellency wishes at any future time to cause a road to be made through the land reserved for us, we agree to give up some portions thereof without any payment being made, that the roads which he thinks necessary may be properly laid off. And in testimony of our true and unreserved assent to all the conditions of this Deed which has been read aloud to vs, we have signed our names and marks. And in testimony of the consent of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, Walter Mantell, Commissioner for the extinguishment of Native Claims, hereunto signed his name. Our names and marks were signed to this Deed on the seventeenth of the days of August, one thousaud eight hundred and fifty-three at Dunedin. Dated at Dunedin, Province of Otago, j (Signed) ■ Walter Mantell, this 17th day of August, one thou- > Commissioner, sand eight hundred and fifty-three. ; Witness to the signatures and (Signed) Taiaroa, Te Marama, marks :— Koau, Maraitaia, (Signed) Edmund Hook Wilson Ihaia Whaitiri, Bellairs, Dunedin, Otago. garetai, Kahu Patiti b Potiki, Horomona Mauhe, James Fulton, J. I •» . Tare Wetere te Ka- Hoani Korako TVestTmen. a]m> John Topi PaLki, Robert Williams, JP., Reihana, Manihera Tutaki, Dunedin. Huriwai, Matene Manaia,' A. Chetham Strode, R.M., Tiare Ru, Te Pae, Dunedin, Otago. W. Rehu, Pokene, Charles H. Kettle, J. P., Paitu > Timoti Whiti, Dunedin. Akaripa Pohau, Horomona Pohio, wir nvn i Matewai Hoani, Paororo William G. rilleul, „. . „., ' „. . , __ Dunedin Elwai Plhar0 > Matiaha Kukeke, TV i- ja v. -p-ii i ' Paororo, Takurua. Richard Anthony Idled, Ko Matewai, Huruhuru, Dunedin. Tare Au> Hahnona Pakipaki, Robert Chapman of Dunedin, Makaia, Eawiri Te Awha, Clerk to the Bench. Whaiti Pirihira, Ratimira Tihau, '

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lua te Meihana, Tiare Te Au, llohaia Poheahea, Wiremu Rehua, Irai Tihau, Korako Turinaka, Fukuhau Teoti Rauparaha, Tare Te Ao, Tipene Pepe, Wiremu Te Raki, John Wesley Korako, ) Witness, Kereopa Totoi, Kaikai, x I Hugh Tiare Hape, ) Eobinson. Moihi Hamero, Pitako Eota Pikararo. James Rikiriki, The payment of the first instalment has been made, that is, One Thousand Pounds have been received by us on this the third of the days of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-threo at Koputahi. It was handed over to us by Walter Mantell, Esquire, Commissioner for extinguishing Native Claims. The names of the Witnesses :— (Signed) Ko Taiaroa, Ma raua ko te Atui, _ Karetai, Ko Papahaka, Witnesses to the payment and Akaripa Pohau, Tauira, signatures. Ira ; TikaUj Korako Tumaka, Edmund Hooke Wilson Bellairs, Eriapa Taheke, ' Eiria Hinerawa, Dunedin. Potiki, John Wesley Korako, James Macandrew, J.P., Te Whaikai, Knikai, Dunedin. Wiremu Rehu, Eawiri te Mamaru, A. Chetham Strode, R.M., £ c , X ? a £ , , S* Taituha ' A - C - S> ' Dunedin Jtiohaia Pohepohe, lipene Tete, x ■itt i! m , 11 Ecihana Tuarea, Teoti Eauparaha, Walter Mantell, rr • ■ ~ . ,A . ' r, '■ ■ Hunwai, Matene Manaia, Commissioner. o , n 1 ■ m t. Solomon Pohio, Pc Pae, Henry Charles Hertelet, J.P., Kahuti, Pitoko, Dunedin. Haereroa, Na Matewai, Henare Mauhera, Wiritia, Matiaha Tiramorehu, Timoti, Wi Turoa, Tare Te Ao, Hoani, Tiare te Kaliu Ru, John Topi mo Kihau, Wiremu Te Raki. Manihera Tutakai, x At Awarua on the fifteenth of the days of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, the second payment has been made, that is, One Thousand Pounds have been received by us this day, having been handed over to us by Walter Mantell, Esquire, Commissioner for extinguishing Native Claims. The names of the Witnesses:— (Signed) Hemi Eihirihi, x Tikini Pahau, . Kahupatiti, x Te Oti Ture, Witnesses to the payment and p aitU; Te Qti Miramauhej signatures. Titikura, Mehana te Awiro, Henry France, Rakatira, Matanahira, Corporal of the Armed Kauaha, x Te Oti Wena, Police of Otago. Patara, Te Raki, x Walter Mantell, Wakatepe, x Tapu, x '"ommissioner, Otago. Tohe > x Kitoitai, 6 Te One Taketi, x Mahera, x Tare te Au, Riria, Huruhuru, x Henere Huruhuru, Paroro, Rawiri Te Awha, Hoani Wakaruru, Tikau, Matiaha Taukeke, Pokurukuru, Takurua, Horomona Pakuketi, Hakihaid, Hira te Kuataiki, Aperahama Kaimate, Meri Wehikore, Tutaraira, Tawira Poutu, Horomona Ate, Mikoni, Rora, Tinana, Kaikatakata, Ruku Pohatu, Tiopira Tura, John Topi Patuki, Te Watakiore, Hoani Koiako, Ni Rehua, Ihaia Waitiri, Mare, Maraetai, x Ihaiani, Heneri Kurukuru, Pirihira, Tare Hape, x Maikaia, x Te Marama, x Pake-, Mohi Hamero. Riwai Piharo,

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No. 3. This , is a Deed conveying land : written at Akaroa, on this tenth of the days of the month of December in the year of our Lord 185(3. This is the consent of the aboriginal inhabitants of Akaroa, of Pigeon Bay, of Port Levy, of Port Cooper, of Kaiapoi, of Wairewa, of the Island extending to the south, extending to the north, entirely to surrender the pieces of land now disputed at Akaroa to the Queen Victoria, to her Heirs for ever and ever, in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds in money, received on this day. These only are the places reserved for us for the Native people : the four hundred acres (400 acres) at Onuku, four hundred acres at the head land on this side of Wainui; the four hundred acres (400 acres) at Wairewa. With us will be the consideration for any person coming to claim the land, or to demand money, because we have entirely received the monies for the full and final surrender of the lands at Akaroa. Wherefore we consent on this day and sign our names to this document. In the presence of (Signed) Wiremu Karawea , x Enoka, x (Signed) J.W.Hamilton, Hone Taupoki, Hoani Pita, Akaroa, Collector of Customs, Matlm Pawltl > x Eh J ' lhau > Lyttelton. Tuauau, x Paurim, Tamati Tikao, x Hoani Wetere, x William Alymer, _ Rangimakere, x Hakiaha, Offidatmg Minister, Hori WaitutUj x John p attersonj Akaroa. Te Teba> Solomon Pohio, John Aldred, Ropoama, x Raihania, x Wesleyan Minister, Enoka, x Hona, x Lyttelton. Te Wakapiri, x Heneri Watene, x Robert Grenvel, Tamati Tipene, x Hoani, x Sub. Col. Customs, Na Marutai, Paora Tangi, x Akaroa. Henere Te Paro, Horopapera, x r _....,. „ -r, , Raniera, x Paora lav, William George Poole, Ekaia> x Hoane> G. Davie. Hamuera, x Te Oti William. Hoani Timaru The boundaries of the piece for the Natives at Wairewa, to commence at the ridge called Waipaua thence to Oweka, thence to the hill Karawera, and afterwards to liukahuka te roa, An agreement relative to the roads and the seaside paths. We, Wiremu Koraweko of Onuku, Hoani Papeti of Wainui, and Mautai of Wairewa, agree that the Queen's roads should be (dug) formed upon'our lands, and we also agree that the roads by the seaside should always remain open. Witnesses to signatures, December 10, 1856, at Akaroa, (Signed) J. W. Hamilton, (Signed) Hoani, Akaroa, Robert Grenvel, . Mautai, x John Aldred, Wiremu Korawheki, x G. Davie,

No. 4, A Deed conveying land, written at Kaiapoi, on this day the fifth of the days of the month of February, in the year of our Lord 1857. This is the consent of the Natives of Kaiapoi, of Te Whakaraupo (Port Cooper), of Eokorarata (Port Levy), of Whakaroi (Pigeon Bay), of Akaroa, of Wairewa, of the west side of all the Tsland, to give up our claim of all the land at Kaiapoi, and on to Waiarua, and on to the sources of Waiarua, Hurunui, and I'akakauri, entirely to give up all that land to the Queen Victoria and her descendants for ever, in consideration of the sum of two hundred pounds paid into our hands on this day. With us will be the consideration for any person coming forward to claim the land, or demanding money for the land, because we have finally received the monies for the entire surrender of the land to the Queen, at Kaiapoi and on to Waiau, and on to the sources of Waiarua, of Kurunui, of Rakahauri. Wherefore we consent and sign our names on this day. In the presence o£ The old pa of Kaiapoi at Te Moture has been reserved, —made William Congreve, sacred, -with its road also. of Christchurch. (Signed) Faora Tau, x Kaikoura Whakatau, John Aldred, Paora Taki, x Ihaia Taihu, Wesleyan Minister, Hakopa, Heneri Pereita Tawiri Christchurch. John Patterson, Solomon Pohio, William H. Revell, Pita Te Ure, Matiu Hutoi, Sub. Inspector of Police Arepeta Koti, John Pere, at Kaiapoi. Te Aika, Hopa Xaukau, G. F. Day, Horomona Haukeke, T. Tikao, of Kaiapoi, Publican. Wiremu Te Uki, Tukaka. J. W. Hamilton, Ihaia Tainui, of Lyttelton, Col. of Customs, Hoani Timaru, Agent for purchase of Kaiapoi and Akaroa lands.