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NEW ZEALAND LAND COMMISSION.

Commissioners of Claims' Office,
Auckland, 10th July, 1841.
NOTICE OF HEARING.

THE COMMISSIONERS hereby give Notice, that
they intend to enter into the investigation of
the under-mentioned Claims to Grants of Land
in New Zealand, at Auckland, immediately after
the cases advertised in the Government Gazette
of the seventh instant have been heard. They
will be taken in the Order in which they are in-
serted in the Gazette, and all Parties interested
are hereby summoned to be in attendance, with
their Documents and Witnesses.

Case No. 136.—WILLIAM JAMES LEWINGTON,
of the Bay of Islands, claimant.

2,000 Two thousand acres, more or less, situ-
ated on the River Thames, about 12' south-east
from the town of Auckland, called Toapoa.

Alleged to have been purchased from the tribe
Ngatipawa, (names not stated), in February,
1839.

Consideration—cash and merchandise to the
amount of £100 sterling.

Case No. 269. (a)—WILLIAM THOMAS FAIRBURN,
of the River Thames, claimant.

40,000, Forty thousand acres, more or less,
being a portion of land lying in the Frith of the
Thames, within five or six miles of Waitemata,
known by the name of Tamaki situated between
the rivers Tamaki and Wairoa.

Alleged to have been purchased from certain
native Chiefs, (names not stated), in January,
1836.

Consideration—merchandise to the amount of
£400 sterling.

Case No. 207. (c.)—GORDON SANDEMAN, of
Sydney, merchant, claimant.

2,500, Two thousand five hundred acres, more
or less, situated on the east bank of the river
Piako, Frith of the Thames, commencing at Kene-
pehi, at the mouth of a rivulet called Waite, about
fifteen miles by water from the sea.

Alleged to have been purchased from Matapihi,
and about thirty other Chiefs, not named, on
the 31st December, 1839.

Consideration—merchandise, value not stated.

Case No. 212.—ALEXANDER BRODIE SPARK, of
Sydney, merchant, claimant.

2,500, Two thousand five hundred acres, more
or less, being the whole of the North-head at the
entrance of the river Waitemata, in the Frith of
the Thames, called Takapuna.

Alleged to have been purchased from the native
Chiefs Pehata and Te Awa, on the eighteenth
November, 1839.

Consideration—Cash and merchandise to the
amount of £100 sterling.

Case No. 212. (a.)—ALEXANDER BRODIE SPARK,
of Sydney, merchant, claimant.

60,000, Sixty thousand acres, more or less,
situated on both sides of the river Weiti, in the
Frith of the Thames.

Alleged to have been purchased from the native
Chiefs Te Horo, Tuaca, Te Ruamuta, Te Ani-
auinga, Te Tumahiki, Puhata, Hearinge, Tau-
wane, Maka, Patuone, William Jowett, Ra-
wini, Kahutoti, Te Kanamu, Hohepa, We-
remu, Ta Kapuma, and Te Awa, on the eigh-
teenth November, 1839.

Consideration—cash and merchandise to the
amount of £250 18s. 6d. sterling.

Case No. 212. (b.)—ALEXANDER BRODIE SPARK,
of Sydney, merchant, claimant.

100,000, One hundred thousand acres, more or
less, being a tract of land situated on the River
Thames, called Aroka.

Alleged to have been purchased from the native
Chiefs Hopia, Makirawe, Tapuru, Tana, Tu,
Winimu Hoate, on the eleventh January,
1840.

Consideration—cash and merchandise to the
amount of £310 sterling.

Case No. 191. (b.)—FREDERICK PETERSON, of
Sydney, merchant, claimant.

2,000, Two thousand acres, more or less, being
all that piece of land bounded on the north by the
Harbour of Manukau, east by a place called Wai-
nuhawakakai, south to a place called Kote Kauru
Oti, Tapui, and west by Huanui, Panawaunu,
Ko-puena, Kote-tukura, and Komankanta.

Alleged to have been purchased from the native
Chiefs Kawaw and Kaihan, on the first
January, 1840.

Consideration—£20 in cash, and merchandise,
value not stated.

EDWARD LEE GODFREY,
MATHEW RICHMOND,
COMMISSIONERS.

Printed and Published by JOHN MOORE, for the
Trustees of the Auckland Newspaper, and
General Printing Company. Wednesday, July
14, 1841.