More Errors Respecting Renata!
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Sin,—ln your issue of this evening you have the following item of news (mentioning iho residence of tho Into Mr Alexander Kennedy), ifou say : — " Tho house at tins foot of tho Shake-speare-road was build by tho lato Mr Kennedy thirty years ago, on land that he boujyht from licuata. It was on tho site of mi old pah." I In this short sentence, an I view it, there iiro .several urrorn. 1. Mr Kennedy could not have bought tho said piece of land from Rcnata,' as Rcnatn never possessed a foot of laud in Seindo Inland (now .Napier.) 2. Tho chiefs (owners) cold it in its entirety to tho then Land Purchitae Commissioner, Sir Donald McLean. There was no row-rvo. . :). The mid land was oariy lciitl oil' in town uections, ufi iiwy he scon in the (old) 'Government map of tho town. ~& I. There was no " old pah" on that spot, 1-ut'below—seaward from tho hotel adjoini,,_thero rl wa« a very small fishing village, only occasionally inliabited. "Moreover, tint law wtissuch at that period (and forTi'iiiy after), that no European could noßftibly nurc-liHMe land from a native chief. Alas ! poor Itenatu ! s?oth living and dead, errors are foisted upon thee ! —liitn, &c, WIILIAM COLENSO. Napier, July 2-1,1888.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5280, 25 July 1888, Page 3
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