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of wood and water for his ship, he gave the natives an old cannon, but drew up in 

 English a deed of purchase of Wairau and its neighbourhood, and put the six-pounder 

 into the document as purchase-money. The deed was mortgaged to Messrs. Unwin and 

 Co., solicitors, Sydney, for two hundred pounds, and as Captain Blunkinsopp was not 

 able to redeem the mortgage, 

 the deed of conveyance was 

 forfeited. The captain was 

 drowned in South Australia 

 before the New Zealand Land 

 Company had agents in New 

 Zealand, and the daughter of 

 Te Pehi, on hearing of his 

 death, had gone north to Hoki- 

 anga. There Colonel Wake- 

 field met her in December, 

 1839, and bought her rights, 

 if any, to the Wairau Valley. 

 Her claim consisted of the 

 copy of the deed of convey- 

 ance, the original of which 

 was in Sydney. 



A warrant to arrest two 

 leading chiefs who disputed 

 the sale of the lands (Rau- 

 paraha and Rangihaeata) was 

 obtained, and a Mr. Thomp- 

 son a police magistrate eight 

 of the Company's settlers and 

 forty labourers, accompanied 

 him to aid the service. Thirty- 

 five of the party were armed, 

 but the majority of them were 

 unacquainted with the use of 

 fire-arms, and were useless in 

 such a contest as afterwards 

 arose. The expedition sailed 

 from Nelson, the third of the 

 Company's settlements, and 

 anchored in Cloudy Bay on 



the 1 5th of June. Two days after landing, Rauparaha was found encamped by a stream 

 with about one hundred followers. A canoe was in the creek, and Captain Wakefield, 

 Mr. Thompson and others, crossed the creek in it to where the natives were assembled. 

 The Police Magistrate told Rauparaha that he had come to arrest him and Rangihaeata 

 for having burned the surveyors' hut ; he had not come about the land. Rauparaha, 



THE CARVED GATE-WAY OF AN OLD " PAH. 



