ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 638, 26 May 1852, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the New Zealander. Sir, — In your publication of the 15th instant, in your account of " A Tour into the Interior of the Northern Colony of New Zealand," among other descriptions of the Island you mention Papakura and the land belonging to me. I beg to correct some inaccuracies you have fallen into respecting it, and should be obliged by your inserting them in your forthcoming paper, as I conceive they are calculated to injure me, or, at the least, to compromise my interest. " Your remarks are as follows : " This spot was purchased from the Natives by a Mr. Chisholm and on the authority of Governor Fitzßoy's land proclamation, but the purchase was disallowed by Governor Grey and the land seized by the Sur-veyor-General. As Chisholm, however, did not complete his purchase the Native title remains still in force." Now I beg distinctly to state that I did complete my purchase and got the land surveyed at an expense of above twenty pounds, and attended with my witnesses on the day appointed to prove my claim, when it was Sroposed to me that by paying an additional ye shillings per acre I would be entitled to five hundred acres out of my purchase, which I declined to accept. I then went to Mr. AttorneyGeneral Swainson who gave me the same information, which I still declined. Since which, various attempts have been made to induce the Natives to give my purchase to the Government, which they have invariably and honorably refused, always acknowledging my purchase, and informing the Government if they wanted the land to apply to me. Adam Chisholm, Auckland, 21st May, 1852. f The " Notes" to which the above refers were written, not by us, but by a gentleman long and well acquainted with this neighbourhood, and, we are sure, in no degree likely to make any injurious misrepresentation of the matter in question. We, however readily insert Mr. Chisholms letter. His claim, we believe, was one of those which were disallowed after Governor Fitzßoy's days, in consequence of some informality, and the land has recently been a matter of contention between different parties of Natives. But Mr. Chisholm himself appears not to be fully aware of the state of the affair as it just now stands. We have heard that these contending Native claimants have undertaken to sell the land to the Government, and that the parties are actually in town for the purpose of having a settlement effected in this case and three or four others of a similar nature. — Ed. JV. Z.~\