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Hakeka selling his land to the Europeans. I was sorry I did not see this Chief who had only left there two days before. Heuheu's conversation had no influence on the Ngatiapa chief, whi is most anxious to dispose of his land. He has erected a house for Dr. Best, of Manawatu, who intends having a cattle station there. This gentleman tells me that it is only within the last year and a half that Hakeka has had a voice in the land which Watanui, the Ngatiraukawas chief claimed by conquest, and erected a pole on the Turakina river to show his boundary. This land, however, has been now relinquished by the conquerors; and the Ngatiapa boundary is now acknowledged to come