A compendium of official documents relative to native affairs in the South Island, Volume One.

[No. 18.]

No. 18.

Receipt for £1,000, Second Instalment of Murihiku Purchase.

I Awarua ki te tekau ma rima o nga ra o Pepuere, i te tau kotahi mano ewaru rau e rima te kau ma wha, kua oti te tukunga tuarua ara, kotahi mano pauna (£1,000), kua riro mai ki a matou ki tenei rangi ano na Walter Mantell, Esquire, Commissioner for extinguishing Native Claims, i túku mai ki a matou.

[ Translation.]

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 by Walter Mantell, Esq., Commissioner for extinguishing Native Claims.

[Here follow the signatures.]