NOTICE.

WHEREAS by the “East Coast Land Titles Investigation Act, 1866,” it is enacted that the provisions of the “Native Land Act, 1865,” respecting the powers and proceedings of the Native Land Court, shall, except as therein is otherwise provided, be applicable to the proceedings of the said Court under the said Act now in recital; and it is further provided that within the District, the boundaries whereof are defined in the Schedule to the said Act and hereunder, the Native Land Court shall have full power and jurisdiction to enquire into and determine the title to all and any land or lands, whether claimed by or belonging to Aboriginal Natives or other British subjects, and whether or not such investigation shall be required on the part of any person or persons claiming title thereto, and to award by certificate, issued under the direction of the Court, that grants of land may be made to such Natives or other persons respectively who shall be found to be entitled thereto as shall not have been engaged in the rebellion, and in those cases in which it shall be found that Natives who have been engaged in the rebellion are, or but for such participation in rebellion, would have been entitled to hold jointly with other Natives who shall not have been so engaged, to make an equitable partition of such land, to assign to the Natives so entitled who shall not have been so engaged their just portion of such land, and to ascertain and certify what lands are, or but for participation in the rebellion, would have been the property of persons who have been engaged in rebellion.

And whereas on or about the 26th day of April instant a requisition was made to the Honorable James Crowe Richmond, one of the members of the Executive Council of the Colony, to fix a sitting of the Native Land Court for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned.

Now, therefore I, Francis Dart Fenton, Esq., the Chief Judge of the said Native Land Court, in execution of the power vested in me under the “Native Land Act, 1865,” and the rules made thereunder, and in pursuance of the said recited Act, do hereby fix a sitting of the Native Land Court, to be holden at Turanganui, in the Province of Auckland, on the third day of July next, for the purposes hereinbefore set forth, with reference to the said block of land described in the Schedule hereunder written.

Dated the thirtieth day of April, 1867.

F. D. FENTON,
Chief Judge.

SCHEDULE.

All that territory within the Province of Auckland, bounded as follows:—To the North and East by the sea from Lottery Point to the Northern boundary of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, thence by the said boundary to the summit of the Maunga Haruru Range, thence by a line to Haurangi, thence by a line to Purororangi, thence by a line to Hikurangi, and thence by a line to Lottery Point.

PANUITANGA.

Ko te mea, i te Ture i huaina nei tona ingoa ko Te Ture Whakawa i Nga Take Whenua o Te Tai Rawhiti, i kiia, ka tika kia whakahaerea nga tikanga o te Ture Whakawa Whenua Maori, 1865, ki roto ki tenei kooti, i runga i te Ture kua whakahuatia ake nei. A, i whakaritea ano hoki kia tino whai mana te Kooti Whakawa Whenua Maori ki roto ki te Takiwa kua Whakaatua danet ona rohe i te Pukapuka e tapiriihonet, heikimihei whakawai nga take wheretokatoa o tuna Takiwa, ahako ana te Maori na tetahi atu tangata ranei, ahako ana te tangata i te ona tile part of any person or persons claiming whenua i tono te whakawakahore ranei. Ma te Kooti e men, me puta he Karaati whenuaki nga tangat~ i tikaki rungaki aua whenua, ara, nga tangata ki hali tuftki te whawhaikite Idawanata.nga. A, i nga wahi ibuudtobe entitled thereto as shall nothave beenengagedin the rebellion, andin those casesin whichit shallbe foundthatNatives whohavebeenengaged intherebellion are,or butforsuchparticipation in rebellion, would havebeenentitled to hindjointly withother l~atives whoshallnothavebeenso engaged, to makean equitable partition of suchland, to assignto the Nativesso entitledwho shallnot have been so engagedtheirjust portionof suchland,mad to ascertain andcertify whatlands are,or butforparticipation intherebellion, wouldhavebeentheproperty of personswho havebeenengagedin rebel- lion.

Na, no te 26 o nga ra o Aperira, 1867, ka tono a Hemi C. Retimana, tetahi o nga tangata o te Runanga o Te Kawana kin whakaritea he rae noho ai te Kooti Whakawa Whenua Maori, hei wl~akahaerei ngatikanga kua korerotla i runga akenet.

Na, ko au, ko Penetana, te Kai Whakawa me by Tumuaki o te Kooti Whakawa Whenua Maori, i rung~i nga mannkua tuknamat ki au ete Ture Whakawa Whenua Maori, 1865. ete Ture ano hoki kua whakahuatia i runga, net, ka whaka:.’it~ net kin naha ~o Kao#, i Whakawa Whe~ua Maori ki Turanganui, i te Porowini o Akarana, ate3 o ngara a Hurae, I867, hei whakahaerei ~ga tikanga kua whakahuatia akenet, i rungaite piihiwhenua e mau net ona robe ite Bukapuka Tapirie. I tuhituhia i tenei30 o nga ra Aperira~ 1867.

NA PENETANA,
Tumuaki Kai Whakawa Whenua.

PUKAPUKA TAPIRI.

Ko tana whenua katoa i te Porowini o Akarana, e mau nei ona rohe ; ko te rohe o te taha ki te Raki, ki to Rawhiti hoki, ko te meana, ka timata i Lottery Point, ka rere, a tae noa ki te rohe whakararo o te Porowini o Ahuriri, ka rere atu i tana rohe, a tac noa ki te tihi o Maungaharuru, ka maaro atu i reira, a Haurangi, ka maaro atu i reira, a Purororangi, ka maaro atu i reira, a Hikurangi, ka maaro atu a Lottery Point, te wahi i timata ai.