Papers Past | Letters and Diaries | The Papers of Sir Donald McLean | Series 2 Inward letters (Maori) | 4 pages to Sir Donald McLean, related to Hone Ropiha, Waiwakaiho, Taranaki (Taranaki Iwi)

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Waiwakaiho, Te Raeiomiti 11 June 1849 Go off there, my kind regards, to McLean. Your letter has arrived setting out your proposals. I have heard that it is all right for the Pakeha parts to be discussed. . .[illegible], and for we the Maori [to have?] the parts of land we all together agree to amicably. Now, listen, I and Halse and Captain King have said about that land at Taurima, the land of Hopere, Timoti and Hone Ropiha, that it be [given?] to the Pakeha. On the 7th of June, when we got there, the Maori had threshed the wheat. When Captain King heard that the wheat had been threshed, then Hone Ropiha said to me that the land had been taken by the Pakeha. The wheat was threshed in January; it was brought in and then taken away. Captain King agreed and he also said to me on the day at Waiwakaiho, 'Our talks did not go well . . . [illegible] lands of Puketotara and Takapoukaka are agreed for

Waiwakaiho, Te Raeiomiti 11 Hune 1849 Haere atu ra, e toku aroha, ki a Makarini. Kua tae mai tau pukapuka me nga ritenga o au tikanga. Kua rongo au e pai ana nga wahi a[?] nga Pakeha kia korerotia kia . . .[illegible] ano, matou nga Maori ki nga wahi whenua ra[?] kua whakatakototia paitia e tatou. Na, kia rongo mai koe, kua korero matou ko Hare, ko Kamu Kingi i taua whenua i Taurima, i te whenua o Hopere raua ko Timoti, ko Hone Ropiha, kia [tukua?] mai taua whenua ki te Pakeha. I te whitu o nga ra o Hune, ka tae atu matou, kua whiua ki te witi e nga Maori. Ka rongo a Kapene Kingi kua whiua ki te witi, ka ki mai a Hone Ropiha kua riro atu te whenua i nga Pakeha. Ko nga witi kua whiua kei a Hanueri, ka riro mai nga witi, ka riro atu. Ka whakaae a Kamu Kingi, ka ki mai hoki a Kamu Kingi ki ahau ki te ra hoki i Waiwakaiho. Kaore a matou korero pai noa iho . . [illegible] whenua hoki me Puketotara me Takapoukaka, kua paitia atu

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