Two months later Te Rauparaha and Rangihaeata arrived in Nelson, urging that the issue of the land ownership be left to Land Commissioner William Spain, who had begun investigating all the claimed purchases of the New Zealand Company.
Two months later Te Rauparaha and Rangihaeata arrived in Nelson. The issue of the land ownership be left to Land Commissioner William Spain. This was what Te Rauparaha and Rangihaeata were urging. Land Commissioner William Spain had begun investigating all the claimed purchases of the New Zealand Company.