✨ Provincial Council Native Correspondence
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THE
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF HAWKE'S BAY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
T. H. FITZGERALD,
Superintendent.
VOL. 2.] WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1861. [NO. 37.
KO TE
NUPEPA NO TE KAWANATANGA,
NO TE KOTINGA KI AHURIRI.
NA TE KAWANATANGA I PEREHI.
NO TE WENEREI, 13 O MAEHE, 1861.
Provincial Council Chamber,
Napier, March 5, 1861.
THE following letters from the Natives to the Provincial Council of Hawke's Bay, are published for general information:—
G. T. FANNIN,
Superintendent's Clerk.
6th February, 1861.
"Karaitiana, Tareha, and Renata, did not design, in the first place, to lease lands to the Europeans, but the trespassing of the cattle and sheep belonging to Europeans brought it on. They (the natives) required payment for these sheep and cattle grazing on their lands; and when they found that, in consequence of the law, they would not be allowed to receive payment, they said,—Well, then, the stock must go off. It was their desire that their claims for past years should be satisfied; and, when this was done, it would be right and proper that the Council and the natives should meet together, and arrange a law which would be satisfactory to all parties. After they (the natives) received such payment, they would better be able to
No Ahuriri,
No te whare Runanga nui,
No te 5 o Maehe, 1861.
TENEI, ka taia nei enei nga pukapuka no nga Rangatira maori ki te Runanga nui ki Ahuriri, kia kitea ai e nga tangata:—
Pepuere 6, 1861.
"Kahore a Karaitiana, a Tareha, me Renata i mahara i te timatanga, kia retia o ratou whenua ki te Pakeha, na te pokanoa o nga hipi me nga kau i nga Pakeha i timata. Ko ratou ko nga Maori i tono utu atu i nga Pakeha mo te kainga aa ratou hipi me nga kau i nga tarutaru o ratou whenua. A no te kitenga, i runga i te tikahanga o te ture, e Kore e marama te rapa utu, ka ki ratou,—kati, ra, ko nga kau me nga hipi me whiu atu. Ko ta ratou i i pai ai, ko nga reti mo nga tau kua hori atu me whakarite; a, ka oti ena, ka tahi ka tika, ka pai kia huihui te Runanga Pakeha me nga Maori, ka whakarite i tetahi ture e pai katoa ai nga Pakeha me nga Maori. Ka tango ratou (nga Maori) i ena utu, (ara i nga utu o nga tau ka hori atu) ka tahi ka tino ahei ratou, ka ata kite hoki i te painga i te kinonga ranei o te reti i o ratou whenua ki nga Pakeha. (Ko te tikanga o
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Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette 1861, No 37
✨ LLM interpretation of page content
🪶 Publication of letters from Natives to the Provincial Council of Hawke's Bay
🪶 Māori Affairs5 March 1861
Native correspondence, Provincial Council, Hawke's Bay, Land leasing, Grazing rights
- Karaitiana, Native correspondent regarding land and grazing
- Tareha, Native correspondent regarding land and grazing
- Renata, Native correspondent regarding land and grazing
- T. H. Fitzgerald, Superintendent
- G. T. Fannin, Superintendent's Clerk