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No. 8.
No. 143.
Deed of Sale.
£200.
Ngait hu Tribe.
Ceding claims to land North of Kaiapoi, in the Province of Canterbury and Nelson.
Dated 5th February, 1857.
He pukapua tuku whenua i tuhi tuhia ki Kaiapoi i tenei ra i te tua rima o nga ra o te marama o Pepuere i te tau o to tatou Ariki (1857). Ko te whakaaetanga tenei o nga tangata Maori o Kaiapoi, o te Whakaraupo (Port Cooper) o Kokourarata (Port Levy), o Wakaroi (Pigeon Bay), o Hakaroa o wairewa, o te tuauru* o te motu nei katoa kia tukua to matou tohe mo te whenua katoa i Kaiapoi puta noa ki Wai-au-ua, puta noa ki nga awa puna o Wai-au-ua, o Hurunui o Rakahauri, kia tukua rawatia taua whenua katoa ki a te Kuini Wikitoria ki ona nri, ake, ake, he utu mo nga pauna moni e rua nga rau kua riro mai ki a matou i tenei rangi
Ma matou te whakaaro mo te tangata e puta mai ki te tohe i te whenua, ki te tohe moni ranei mo te whenua, no te mea kua riro rawa mai kia matou nga moni mo te whakaotinga katoatang. page 381
o te whenua ki a te Kuini, i Kaiapoi puta, noa ki Wai-au-ua, puta noa ki nga awa puna o Wai-au-ua o Hurunui o Rakahauri, Koia ka wakaae matou kua tuhituhi hoki i o matou nei ingoa i tenei ra.
Ko te Pa o Kaiapoi o mua, kei te Moture, kua whakatapua, me tona huanui.
Na Paora Tau x.
Paora Taki x.
Hakopa.
John Patterson.
Pita te Hori.
Arapata Koti x.
Te Aika x.
Horomono Haukeke x.
Wiremu te Uki.
Ihaia Tainui.
Hoani Timaru x.
Kaikoura Wakatau.
Ihaia Taihewa.
Henare Pereita Tawiri.
Solomon Pohio.
Matiu Mutoi x.
Hopa Kaukau x.
John Pere.
T. Tikao.
Tukaha
I te aroaro o.
William Congreve, of Christchurch.
John Aldred, Wesleyan Minister, Christchurch.
William H. Revell, Sub-Inspector of Police, Kaiapoi.
G. F. Day, Publican, Kaiapoi.
J. W. Hamilton, of Lyttleton, Collector of Customs, Agent for Purchase of Kaiapoi and Akaroa Lands.
* (Tuauru) this distinctly is understood not to convoy away the lands of the West Coast or Poutini Natives. Whose lands begin at the watershed of the East and West Coasts.—(Signed) J. W. Hamilton, February 5th, 1857.