- "It is the Ngatiraukawas" "Do you retain the river?", and with determination they all replied "Ae." "I know what that determination is. Do you consent that the Ngatiapa should have their own land?" Reply, - "Ae." "And that the Pakeha should have the opposite side of the Rangitikei river?" Reply, - "Ae." Turning to the Ngatiapa, - "Ngatiapa, - do you agree to the land being yours?" Reply of the Ngatiapa, - "Ae." "Do you consent that no Europeans should live on this side?" Ten strangers of the Ngatimaniapoto, sitting on the side of the Ngatiapa, said, - "Ae." - and Ihaka, and either one or two of the Ngatiapa claimants, - "Ae.", with the Ngatimaniapoto. The others firmly objected to consent, from having previously ceded their land to the Government." - "Ngatiraukawa, - I wish to hear you again repeat your consent now given that the Europeans shall peaceably occupy the land on the North bank of Rangitikei." They all replied "Ae." "That the Ngatiapa shall also possess their own land, as far as they claimed them at this Meeting?" Assented, - "Ae." "That you shall not disturb or interfere with the Europeans on the North bank of the river?" "Not we. We shall not interfere with them. So. We shall not." Meeting dispersing, when some confused conversation took place between Kawana Hunia, who seemed affected with the proceedings, as if feeling his want of power to entirely establish the right of his tribe to dispose of all their ancient claims and possessions, now in the hands of the powerful tribe before whom he contended. Had a conversation, which I could not distinctly make out, from the hurried manner in which the Ngatiraukawas dispersed.