(Enclosure in No. 409.)
Conveyance from Te Kiwi to J. V.
Cowell, of Kawhia.
1840. 11 January.Kawhia District.Ponewe.This Indenture made the eleventh day of January in the Year of
our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty, Between E Kiwi Chief of the tribe
of Waicatto in
J. V. Cowell. New Zealand and John Vittoria Cowell of Kawhia in New Zealand Merchant,
page 377Witnesseth that in consideration of
one cask of Tobacco, forty Spades, forty Axes, eight Casks powder, Ten pieces
print, ten pieces Handkerchiefs, forty Iron pots, ten pair Blankets, six Muskets,
twenty Cartouch Boxes, one dozen pair trowsers, one dozen frocks, one dozen
shirts, one thousand flints, one thousand pipes, two cedar chests &c.
&c. to the said E. Kiwi Chief of the tribe of Waicatto New Zealand, given
and paid by the said John Vittoria Cowell, at or immediately before the execution
hereof, the receipt whereof the said E. Kiwi Chief of the tribe of Waicatto doth
acknowledge,
Receipt. He the said E. Kiwi Chief of the tribe of Waicatto doth give grant sell
enfeoff make over and confirm unto the said John Vittoria Cowell all that parcel
of Land containing Twenty Thousand acres of land more or less situate at Kawhia in
New Zealand, bounded
Boundaries. [20,000 acres.] towards the North porero, houraki, kareri atua, and the sand hills,
towards the East, by the river Kawhia, towards the South, manahihi, taiia te moko,
and the sand hills, and towards the West by the sea side, Together with all rights
privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging and all the estate right title and
interest of him the said E. Kiwi Chief of the tribe of Waicatto therein and
thereto To hold the same unto the said John Vittoria Cowell as tenant in common
and his several and respective Heirs and assigns for ever in as full ample and
beneficial a manner to all intents and purposes whatsoever as he the E. Kiwi Chief
of the Tribe of Waicatto could have held and enjoyed the same, if these presents
had not been made. In Witness whereof the said parties have hereunto set their
hands and seals the day and year first above written.
his E. x Kiwi.
mark his Porima x mark.
Signed, sealed and delivered by the above named E. Kiwi having been
previously fully explained to him in the presence of—
Witness—
John Smith.
Edward Stockman.
No. 1,353.O.L.C. A True Copy of Original Deed and Enclosure.
H. Hanson
Turton.
Wellington,20th August, 1878. [Note.—The claim for 20,000
acres founded on this Native deed was not referred to any Commissioner for
investigation.—Ed.]