THE MANAWATU PURCHASE.

Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 109, 16 June 1866, Page 2

THE MANAWATU PURCHASE.

A letter printed in Maori, with the following translation, appears in yesterday's Canter, bury Press:— 6th June, 1866. To Mr. FitzGerald. — I have only just seen what Tamihana te Hauparaha has suid in the newspaper, that I asked Dr. Featherston for money for Rangitikei. This assertion of Tamihana's is quite false. It was fop another piece of land — Eketahuna is the name — at Ruamahanga, near Wairarapa. The perßon who is offering that land for Bale is Peti. This is the land about which I spoke to Dv. Featherston •, that land is not near Rangitikei; that land is 100 miles distant from Rangitikei ; this is what Tamihana has misrepresented. When he sold Mana, did he say the money was for Rapid ? When he sold land on the Middle Island, did he say that the money was for this Island ? Manawatu is twelve miles from Rangitikei. When ho sold land at Manawatu, Rangitikei was not sold (by that sale). Let Tamihana cense telling falsehoods. Will he not be ashamed of his untruths. Tamihana says this because he is jealous of those who still possess farms and runs in Rangitikei. His wish is that they should be sold, that all may be like him who does not possess an acre of laud in Rangitikei. This is all, From Henerb te Herekau. Print this in Maori.