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petitioners' former establishment, and from which place the Kawhia Natives, so alleged to be rebels as aforesaid, can be, your petitioners believe, easily and regularly traded with. That your petitioners have lost a very large quantity of goods, and have been prevented from collecting large sums of money due to them from Natives in the District of Kawhia by the above mentioned circumstances, and that particularly the property of your petitioner, Charles Davi3, which he holds under Grant from the Crown has been rendered almost valueless, the houses and other buildings thereon being left without protection. Your petitioners therefore pray that your Honorable House will cause the facts of your petitioners case to be enquired into, and will take such other steps therein as to your Honorable House may seeem meet, and for the relief of your petitioners from the great hardship and injury inflicted upon them by the course pursued by His Excellency's Government. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c. CHAS. DAArIS, FREDERICK TAXES, LEOPOLD YATES.

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