TE PUNA.
We have made further inquiries about this purchase, an I find that the .Vgiitili.uu.is have an undoubted clnim to Innti in that Nuiuhbmir* liood. It has been the fishing place of the tribe for m«ny years, and not man v years ago Thompson himself lived there. And yet it is pretended that this laud was purchased. We shall be told that Ihompson was .i rebel, and we had a right to take his land. W believe the Natives do not deny the Queen's right to the land she has confiscated. Hut Te Puna was expressly m>t confiscated, it was b nig t ; and ab id title cannot be made good by saying that we might have confidta el the land if we had plianrd. W.- did not confiscate i», but pretended to buy it ; and we must stand by our own acts — Canteibury Press
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Evening Post, Issue 89, 23 May 1865, Page 3
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146TE PUNA. Evening Post, Issue 89, 23 May 1865, Page 3
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