(326)

Allotment No. 10, containing 5 acres, 3 roods,
and 9 perches.
Allotment No. 11, containing 5 acres, 2 roods,
and 33 perches.
Allotment No. 13, containing 6 acres, 1 rood,
and 13 perches.
Allotment No. 15, containing 5 acres, 1 rood,
and 28 perches.
Allotment No. 16, containing 5 acres, 1 rood,
and 37 perches.
Allotment No. 17, containing 5 acres, 2 roods,
and 5 perches.
Allotment No. 18, containing 7 acres, 1 rood,
and 80 perches.
Allotment No. 19, containing 6 acres, 3 roods,
and 37 perches.
Allotment No. 20, containing 5 acres, 1 rood,
and 11 perches.
Allotment No. 21, containing 9 acres, 3 roods,
and 24 perches.
Allotment No. 22, containing 9 acres, 0 roods,
and 19 perches.

By command of His Excellency
The Officer administering the Government,
(For the Colonial Secretary)
WILLIAM CONNELL

NOTICE OF HEARING.

Office,
Kororareka, 14th November, 1842.

MATHEW RICHMOND, a Commis-
sioner appointed to examine and report
upón Claims to Grants of Land, do hereby give
notice that I will proceed to investigate the
undermentioned at Hokianga, on Thursday, the
1st day of December, 1842, being in addition
to the list of Claims advertised for hearing in
the Government Gazette of the 17th August,
1842.

All parties interested are hereby summoned to
be in attendance with their documents and wit-
nesses, and they are reminded that the fee of five
pounds must be paid to the Commissioner before
the investigation of any Claim, or any opposi-
tion thereto. Claimants are also required to
bring all original deeds (and translations thereof,
if in the Maori language,) relating to their
claims, with copies of the same the latter to
remain with the Commissioner.

Case No. 448,-ELEANOR BAKER, of Hoki-
anga claimant.

60. Sixty acres, more or less, being a piece of
    land called Kohe Kohe, bounded on the north by
    land claimed by Mr Makings; on the south by
    a ridge of high land, on the east by the river
    Orida:

Alleged to have been purchased from certain
native chiefs not named, by Mr. John Monk,
from whom claimant derives.
Consideration given to the natives-not stated.
Nature of conveyance-not stated.

Case No. 449. -THOMAS M'DONNELL, of Hoki-
anga, claimant.

A tract of land, contents not stated, known
by the name of "Te Horeke;" the river fron-
tage of which extends from the entrance of the
Wairere creek to a sloping point of land and
down to the water's edge, called Wai Kashan-
ghinui-from the latter place a line running to a
remarkable patch of ground called Mataka,
forms the northern boundary-from the Mataka
patch, a line running by compass until the head
or source of the Wairere creek bears forms the
inland or eastern boundary-from the position
when the head or source of the Wairere creek
bears by compass, a line in the same bear-
ing, and including all the land on the east or left
bank of the Wairere, to the river Hokianga,
where the first position was taken, is the southern
boundary.

Alleged to have been purchased by claimant
from Messrs. Jones & Walker, who were
managing trustees for Messrs. Rann &
Ramsay, the original purchasers from the
natives, 20 in number, by whom the boun-
daries were defined in 1836.
Consideration given to the natives-upwards
of £400.
Nature of conveyance-not stated.

Case No. 449 (a).-THOMAS M'DONNELL, of
Hokianga, claimant.

A piece of land, contents not stated, adjoining
the preceding claim, known by the name of
Mataka, bounded as follows:-from a position
on the right bank of the Hokianga, where the
entrance of the Orida river bears by compass
W. N., a line running to a mark made by the
Tao Nui, and from the latter, rounding or
skirting the woods including the Tay, and on to
the west extremity of a tabooed wood, the line
then bending round the base of a sloping hill,
and then running east-south-east to the skirt of
wood, and a full English mile through the
same, is the northern boundary; from the point
where the mile into the wood terminates, a line
running south-west by compass until the Mataka
patch bears north by compass, is the inland
boundary; the northern boundary of the prece-
ding claim, Houreke, is the southern boundary
of the present claim, and includes Paki Tarete,
Tukirange, Puka Taraiče, and Motu Skokie.

Alleged to have been purchased from the
native chiefs, named in the preceding
claim, by present claimants in 1836.
Consideration given to the natives-not stated,
Nature of conveyance-not stated.

Case No. 449 (b).- THOMAS M'DONNELL, of
Hokianga, claimant.

A piece of land, contents not stated, known
by the name of Matou Karaka. The river
frontage extends from the Islet of Matou Karaka,
situate at the entrance of the Tora Mera Creek;
passing the Wai Eupe Creek, Poporete, and
through the Narrows, with all the intermediate
places on the left bank of the Hokianga river,
and on to the entrance of the Wai ho hui Creek,