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This Meeting, however, has been productive of more important results than may be gathered by reading over the Minutes. The Ngatiraukawas, who, at several public Meetings of their tribe, held at Manawatu and Otaki, declared their determination to prevent the sale of any land South of Wangaehu, - have, in the time elapsing from the first of January to the fifteenth of March, so far altered their determination, that they have acknowledged the right of the Ngatiapa to sell, as far South as Rangitikei, thereby placing the original proprietors and legitimate owners of that district in a more favourable position for the Government to treat