Address to His Excellency by the Chiefs of Ngapuhi assembled at Waimate.
Friend Governor,-We bid you welcome, welcome,—welcome ;—welcome thou visitor from a far country,—we bid you welcome to Waimate;-come and visit the land of our forefathers. Friend Governor;—we are looking to yon because youare out Parent;-Nowtherefore! U Governor, our interests are in your hands; --bepleased then to advance Ibis end of oar Island. _ Listen.—This is Hie district in which a European settlement was first planted in the very early days,--that is the district of the Bay of Islands. Now therefore, O Governor, we are desirous to receive a distinct promise from vou: even now that we shall have a Township on this the inland side. We ask you now to look carefully and to select a site suitable for a Township, with a convenient harbour for ships, so that the tribes laiand near mav haveaccess to it. We hope your Excelled will also appoint a Magistrate to reside there 1^ 0 ™ l M Native Assessors and the Chiefs of the several Tribes a person to whom hey and the Traders also may look. Finely, O Governor, the chief point in our address to you is this;-listen^-You lit ™fL2™ one; T™ are incorporated with you, and you with us. at ° f % P** l **"** l * ihh January, 183$.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 4, 1 February 1858, Page 15
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217Address to His Excellency by the Chiefs of Ngapuhi assembled at Waimate. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 4, 1 February 1858, Page 15
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