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Turanganui 23rd January 1859 My dear Sir, I arrived here yesterday afternoon to pay the interest of Wi Tamehana's and Raniera's Money and find that I shall have some bal. in my hands after the Interest due is paid, on this subject I require some explanation as to what I am to do with the bal. in hand. Kelly has presented me with the enclosed acct. against you for payment. I have however thought it better to refer it to you, your answer on the matter had better be addressed to him as I shall, before an answer can possible arrive from Auckland be out of this part of the country. I have duly received the Official respecting the Waikanae Purchase and beg mostrespectfully to state that I am very well aware of how the survey of the purchased block is to be done that it is not advice but a surveyor that I want. I am happy to hear that it is likely that you will pay Wellington a visit soon as I am getting on very unsatisfactorily to myself I have succeeded in arranging for the purchase of about 40,000 acres of the Maungaraki Block the price I have settled to pay is to the Natives very unsatisfactory, and will amount to about fourteenpence per Acre and this price tho apparently high is not much considering their increased knowledge of the value of their land's and I think if a more correct acreage of other blocks in the valley be taken into consideration with the amts paid for them that the price of 14d per acre is not in excess I am trying to get some of the difficulties of Wairarapa cleared away as my time here is but short I have been completely laid up lately having caught cold in my eyes during the time I was making a traverse of the Maungaraki Block, which has prevented my completing it. I will let you know ween the purchase is completed. and am, very truly yours, Will N. Searancke Donald McLean Esqre, AUCKLAND.
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4 pages written 23 Jan 1859 by William Nicholas Searancke in Turanganui to Sir Donald McLean in Auckland Region, Inward letters - W N Searancke

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Key Value
Document date 23 January 1859
Document MCLEAN-1013594
Document title 4 pages written 23 Jan 1859 by William Nicholas Searancke in Turanganui to Sir Donald McLean in Auckland Region
Document type MANUSCRIPT
Attribution ATL
Author 45250/Searancke, William Nicholas, 1817?-1904
Collection McLean Papers
Date 1859-01-23
Decade 1850s
Destination 66181/Auckland Region
Englishorigin ATL
Entityid 21
Format Full Text
Generictitle 4 pages written 23 Jan 1859 by William Nicholas Searancke in Turanganui to Sir Donald McLean in Auckland Region
Iwihapu Unknown
Language English
Name 45250/Searancke, William Nicholas, 1817?-1904
Origin 464741/Turanganui
Place 464741/Turanganui
Recipient 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Section Manuscripts
Series Series 1 Inward letters (English)
Sortorder 0006-0091
Subarea Manuscripts and Archives Collection
Tapuhigroupref MS-Group-1551
Tapuhiitemcorpname 84904/King Movement
Tapuhiitemcount 58
Tapuhiitemcount 2 14501
Tapuhiitemcount 3 30238
Tapuhiitemdescription 60 letters written from Waiuku, Ahuriri, Waipa, Auckland, Awhitu, Wellington, Masterton, Wairarapa, Otaki, Manawatu, Tuaranganui, Te Purupuru, Greytown, Rangitikei, Waikato, Whangarei, Ngaruawhaia. Includes piece-level inventory (1969 accessions not added). Contains letters from Searancke to McLean with regard to the purchase of Maori land in the lower North Island in the 1850s and 1860s, in Wairarapa, Horowhenua and Manawatu; the letters also contain information about disputes that arose from the sales among Maori and between Maori and the Government; there is also information about the disposition of Maori, and their attitudes towards the King Movement, in these areas during the New Zealand wars of the early 1860s There are also some letters about Searancke's work in the Waikato district as a resident magistrate, with information about his observations of the Kingitanga
Tapuhiitemgenre 3 230058/Personal records Reports
Tapuhiitemiwihapu 32130/Ngati Apa
Tapuhiitemname 291802/Piharau, Rawiri, fl 1850s-1880s
Tapuhiitemname 3 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Tapuhiitemplace 66392/Manawatu-Wanganui Region
Tapuhiitemref MS-Papers-0032-0565
Tapuhiitemref 2 Series 1 Inward letters (English)
Tapuhiitemref 3 MS-Group-1551
Tapuhiitemsubjects 3 1446/New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872
Tapuhiitemtitle Inward letters - W N Searancke
Tapuhiitemtitle 2 Series 1 Inward letters (English)
Tapuhiitemtitle 3 McLean Papers
Tapuhireelref MS-COPY-MICRO-0535-089
Teiref ms-1298-159
Year 1859

4 pages written 23 Jan 1859 by William Nicholas Searancke in Turanganui to Sir Donald McLean in Auckland Region Inward letters - W N Searancke

4 pages written 23 Jan 1859 by William Nicholas Searancke in Turanganui to Sir Donald McLean in Auckland Region Inward letters - W N Searancke

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