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SUPPLEMENT (A)
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

OF WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1842,
Published by Authority.

VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1842. [No. 14.

I, WILLIAM SPAIN, a Commissioner ap-
pointed for investigating and determining
Titles and Claims to Land in the Colony of New
Zealand, do hereby give Notice, that I shall pro-
ceed to investigate the undermentioned Claims
in the Port Nicholson District, at the Court House
in Wellington, on the day of
1842, and following days, at eleven o'clock in the
forenoon.

All Parties interested are hereby summoned to
be in attendance with their Witnesses, and they
will be required to produce before me all original
Deeds and Translations thereof, relating to their
Claims, with attested Copies of the same, the
latter to be left with me.

The Claimants are reminded, that the fee of
£5 must be paid to me before the investigation of
any Claim, or of any opposition to it.

Case. No. 49 (c)—JOHN CREGOE BROWN and
ROBERT CAMPBELL, of Sydney, merchants,
claimants in part.

16,000, Sixteen thousand acres, more or less,
being all that piece or parcel of land in the
Northern Island of New Zealand, situate on the
Rivers Piunu, Kokowitta, and Rungapiko;
bounded by the River Puinu on the south-
east; on the west by the River Runga-
piko; on the south-south-west by the River
Kokowitta; the names of the said land being
Titewa, Tuwerawera, Tuoloti, Paratoua, Wito
Witu-ununga-poie, Warraraboro, the name of
the whole being Parakiahua.

Alleged to have been purchased in December,
1839, from the Native Chief John Towack,
by Messrs. John Jones and Francis Owen
Leathart, who have disposed of their inte-
rest in the above land to the claimants.
Consideration—not stated.
Nature of conveyance—Deed of Feoffment
to the original purchasers, dated 23rd Decem-
ber, 1839.

Case No 70 (a)—DANIEL COOPER, of the City
of London, Merchant, JAMES HOLT, of Syd-
ney, Merchant, and WILLIAM BARNARD
RHODES, of Sydney, Master Mariner, claim-
ants.

All that tract of land known as Entry Island,
or Kapiti, situated in Cook's Straits, New
Zealand. (Extent not stated.)

Alleged to have been purchased by the
claimants on the 31st October, 1839, from
Robulla Rangeiata Echo Tuma Eaheao,
Okie Ranhihero.

Consideration—cash to the amount of £100
sterling.

Nature of conveyance—Deed of Feoffment,
of the above date, in favor of claimants.

Case No. 70 (c.)—DANIEL COOPER, of London,
Merchant, JAMES HOLT, of Sydney Merchant,
and WILLIAM BARNARD RHODES, of Sydney,
Master Mariner, claimants.

All that tract of land in the Northern Island,
New Zealand; bounded on the west by the
waters of Cook's Straits, commencing at the
mouth or entrance of the Waihonai River, (Ka-
piti bearing north-west by north, and west by
south half south magnet); thence in a northerly
direction along the coast, to the Otakie River,
and from thence turning to the eastward along
the banks of the Otakie; on the north by the
said river to its source, or to the termination of
an easterly line 40 miles into the interior from
the entrance of the Otakie; thence turning
south parellel with the west coast, until it meets
a line running 30 miles from the aforesaid mouth
of the Waikanai opposite Kapiti; and on the