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Hitel, Rupterra, Aki Erow, Arangi Eovi,
Epoki, Chiefs of the Natti Ava and Caffea
tribes, by Mr. William Hay, who sold a
tenth part of his interest to the claimant.
Consideration in the first instance-various
articles of merchandise to the amount of £378
sterling, for the entire purchase; and £40 in
cash and goods, stated to have been since given
to the Natives by claimant.
Nature of conveyance-Deed of Feoffment to
Mr. Hay, dated 9th of October, 1839.

Case No. 229—ROBERT TOD, of Port Nicholson,
New Zealand, claimant.

All that piece of land adjoining the sea, and
situated to the south and by west of the Nal-
yaway Village, running parallel to the sea and
up the ridge at the back. Its boundary line
lies to the north and by east, and commences at
the distance of five hundred and eighteen and
eight-twelfths feet from a line drawn from the
Nalyawa Nal yaway church to the sea; the aforesaid piece
of land then measures from north and by east
to south and by west two hundred and fifty one
and a half feet; it measures from the sea at high
water mark to beyond the ridge parallel to the
sea two hundred and thirty-two feet, besides
comprehending the shore down to low water
mark. (Contents not stated.)

Alleged to have been purchased by claimant
from the native Chief Muturoa.

Consideration—cash to the amount of £12,
sterling.

Nature of conveyance—deed to claimant
dated 3rd January, 1840.

Case No. 229.(a)—ROBERT TOD, of Fort Nichol-
son, New Zealand, claimant.

All that piece or parcel of land situated in the
flat, where lies the Nalyaway Church, from
which church it bears by compass, and runs
along the ridge to the south-west half south;
its boundary line runs north-west half north,
and south east half south and is distant from the
Nalyaway church three hundred feet south-west
and by south; its boundary line on the east-south
east is the ridge facing the sea, (to which ridge
the land runs parallel,) and extends to the
south west and by south one hundred and fifty
seven and nine twelfths feet; the boundary line
then runs back from the top of the ridge to the
north-west quarter west, five hundred and twen-
ty seven and three quarter feet; it then turns
away to the west-north-west eighteen feet ten
inches; it then runs to the north-north-west
sixty-three feet; then north east ninety-eight
feet; then north one hundred and thirty-four
feet eight inches at which point it touches the
stream Wye; the land has water frontage ex-
tending eighty feet from this point down the
stream to a tree marked B. T. comprehending
all the land on the right bank of the said stream
Wye, between the point and tree aforesaid; the
boundary line then runs from the said tree in the
direction of south-east half south and to the top
of the ridge five hundred and eighty-five feet.
(Contents not stated.)

Alleged to have been purchased by the claim-
ant from the Native Chiefs Muturoa and Man-
gatuka.

Consideration—Cash to the amount of £30
sterling.

Nature of conveyance—Deed in favor of
claimant, dated 4th January, 1840.

Case No. 241 (b.) - WILLIAM CHARLES WENT-
WORTH, of Vaucluse, claimant 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 River Puniu, and Kokowettu, and Rungipiko;
bounded by the River Puniu on the south-south
east; on the west by the River Rungapiko;
on the south-south-west by the River Hoko-
wittu; the names of the land being Titewa, Tu-
wera-wera, Tuoloti, Paratawa, Witi-witu, Won-
ga poie, Warrahohoro, the name of the whole
being Para Kiohua.

Alleged to have been purchased in December,
1839, from certain Native Chiefs not named
by Messrs. John Jones and Francis Owen
Leathart, who have disposed of four eight- eenths of their interest in the above land to
claimant.

Consideration—not stated.

Nature of conveyance—Deed of Feoffment to
the Original purchasers, dated the 23rd Decem-
ber, 1839.

Case No. 252—WILLIAM WRIGHT Merchant,
claimant in part.

All that land known by the name of Porerooa,
from the rocks upon the north-east side of the
River Porerooa, called Kickatoe, north-east by
north 30 miles, and bounded to the east by a
range of snowy mountains; to the south by a
range of hills three miles from Port Nicholson,
upon the south west side of the River Porerooa
to Teeti Bay, from Teeti Bay south east by east
to the south branch of the Porerooa River.
(Contents not stated.)

Alleged to have been purchased in October,
1839, from Rangi Ako, Rangi Hero, Ran-
gi Hitei, Rupterra, Aki Erow, Arangi,
and Epokie, Chiefs of the Natti-Ava and
Caffea tribes, by Mr. William Hay, who
sold a moiety of his interest in the above to
claimant.

Consideration in the first instance—various
articles of merchandise to the amount of £378
sterling, for the entire purchase; and £200 in
cash and goods, stated to have been since given
to the Natives by claimant.

Nature of conveyance—Indenture of Feoff-
ment to Mr. Hay, dated 9th October, 1839.

Case No. 257.—THOMAS BELL, of Dundee,
Scotland, N. B., claimant in part.

All that piece of land or island known by the
native name of Manna, called by the English
Warspite Island, situated in Cook's Straits,
about fourteen miles south west of Entry Island
and Rowparas. (Contents not stated.)

Alleged to have been purchased on the 25th
April, 1832, from the Native Chiefs, Ropea
and Ranghiatia, by Messrs. John Bell,
Alexander Davidson, and Archibald Mos-
man. Davidson, it is stated, transferred
his interest to John Bell, since deceased,
whose father, the present applicant, claim
as heir-at-law.