Circular.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 32, 25 November 1843, Page 2

Circular.

London, 13th April, 18431 . Sib, — I have great pleasure in addressin jj to you as a purchaser of land from the JNei ! Zealand Manakau Land Association, t\ \ present Circular. The long period whicj has elapsed since your purchase of land wa | made, has been taken up by a very lengtl jj ened, and for some time, unsatisfactory correspondence with the Colonial Office. (j I the accession of the present ministry tl power in consequence of the arrangement \ made by their predecessors with the Nerv Zealand Company ; they seemed determine*' on being very cautious in treating with tilmembers of the Manakau Association, r need not trouble you with the details of tl [ ' correspondence which ensued between Majcp Campbell on our .behalf and the Colon!? Office. If you wish however, for any (It ? tailed information on the subject. 1 shif be happy to afford it you. I need only stat £ that the correspondence ended after grcij; delay, and not until the middle of last year | in the Government consenting to ouroftf:| repeated solicitations to investigate and tal jj an account of the general expenditure ¥£ incurred prior to November, 1840 ; and J our expenditurein Emigration down to tii;J" time of the Government communication f § us, being about the middle of last year, ac|. in respect of which expenditure we should b| entitled to four acres for every £1 sterli,' | expended according to the terms settled \ i tween the Government and the New Zealaii| Company, it having been the object of os| correspondence to get ourselves placed upa? a footing with the New Zealand CompanjK We accordingly proceeded to prove our ei| penditure before Mr. Pennington, a Com* missioner appointed by Government for tlic^ purpose, and after many meetings with th& gentleman, spreading over a space of 'man^ months, he reported to the Government tb| we had by our expenditure proved good of; claim to 19,924 acres of land, and our rigk to 16,000 further acres on our expending! further sum of about .£4,000 in Emigration^ this report the Government have confirmed; and we have received a letter from tt, Colonial Office, stating that the Governor < s -[ New Zealand has been instructed to mat,., assignment to our Agent in the Colony^ the land on his shewing our title to the saffiThis he will be enabled to do by means , our Title Deeds, which are in his possession My object in addressing you, is in additkj" J to putting you in possession of the above iv formation, to state that wo are now prepani ''•■ to complete the contract on our part for ttf j sale to you of five sections of our land, aih that we havd instructed Mr. TheopliikrJ ' Heale, our agent in the Colony, who resid^ in Auckland, to put the bearer of your lan, % order in possession of his allotment of lan^ on our advising him of the payment of tl^ purchase money, which we propose doing t»J having a receipt for the amount indorsed f 's the land order. If you will forward me }% f land orders, if in your own possession, I tfy; indorse upon them a receipt for the amotf ff of the purchase money* % I remain, Your obedient servant, [:' Robert Rckr Wm. Gibson, Esq., \ St. Andrews, Fife Shire,/ &