So, following the confiscation, Ngāti Maru continued to live on their lands that they still managed to have left, and in the early 1870s, the Crown attempted to promote European settlement on that confiscated land by paying some Ngāti Maru compensation for the rights that the confiscation had extinguished. These deeds of cession, covering about 60,000 acres, created significant divisions within the iwi, compounding the damage already caused by the loss of the land. But it seems a lot of the promises and a lot of the conversations that were held in the early days never really came to fruition. 