SIMILAR DOCUMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 43, 20 February 1940, Page 8

SIMILAR DOCUMENT.

OWNED BY DUNEDIN RESIDENT (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, Monday. The sale of an area of 2000 acres in 1838 at Bluff is recorded in a copy of a deed in the possession of a Dunediu resident, who was reminded of it by the announcement from Sydney that a deed of indenture recording 'the sale of the South Island in 1840 for £ 100 had been discovered there. The parties to the deal in the Bluff territory were Edwin Palmer and John Towack, chief of the tribe of - Kito. Edwin Palmer made his first /visit to New Zealand as early as 1826 and for some years following 1835 was a partner in a whaling venture with John Jones, who was mentioned in the message from Sydney as one of the parties to the 1840 transaction. The deed recording Palmer's transaction is now in the Hocken Library. It was drawn up in Sydney and was signed by the Maori chief with his tattoo mark. "One sealing boat, the sum of £20 sterling, one dozen of axes and adzes, and a quantity of slops in hand, well and truly delivered," constituted the purchase price of the land, which remained in the hands of the Palmer family for 00 years, although Edwin Palmer in 18.il settled on another property «t Otokia.