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Case No. 173 (c.) - WILLIAM B. MOORES, of
Coromandel Harbour, New Zealand, claimant.
2, Two acres, more or less, being a piece or
parcel of land situated in the Paa, at Kauerongo,
(Boundaries not stated.)
Alleged to have been purchased by claimant
from the native chiefs Paterangi, Torowawa
and Te Rangikiwah.
Consideration-merchandise, value not stated.
Nature of conveyance-Deed to claimant,
dated 15th Jaunary: 1836

Case No. 173 (d)-WILLIAM B. MOORES, of
Coromandel Harbour, New Zealand, claimant.
All that piece or parcel of land known by the
name of Pakeuwa, and bounded on the east by
a high range, being the back part of the Nate-
pana tribe; on the west by the Waiau River;
on the north by the Pa Hu-wau Creek to Wa
Ei Ta Wa; then bearing north by east to the
back range; on the south by a creek known by
the name of Ma-ta-wai. (Contents not stated.)
Alleged to have been purchased from Hau
au Eu, Ka-pote, Koinaki, Weoro, A Koka,
Tauware, Pu-ata, Epoke, Waharawe, E
Tara, Eiu, and Tapu Eu, chiefs of the
Natepana tribe,
Consideration-various articles of merchan-
dise, value not stated.
Nature of conveyance-Deed to claimant,
dated 17th October, 1839.

Case No. 175.-DAVID EDWARD MUNRO, of
Sydney, claimant
All that piece or parcel of land, bounded on
the east by the River Thames, running from a
place called Mange-Mange-Roa, to a place
called Otungai, from thence to a mount
called Tarua, from thence to a mount called
Hineraupara, from thence to Mange-Mange-
Roa, aforesaid. (Contents not stated.)
Alleged to have been purchased in November,
1839, from the native chiefs Taharoka,
Te-wero, Ta-ngarara, Te-ngonga, Haua-
uru, Te Kepoli, and Nga-iwnui, by Mr.
William Webster, who sold and conveyed
to claimant.
Consideration-various articles of merchan-
dise, to the amount of £102 sterling.
Nature of conveyance-Deed to Mr. Webster,
dated 23rd November, 1839.

Case No. 178.-JOSEPH NEWTON, of Sydney,
claimant.
12,800, Twelve thousand eight hundred acres,
more or less, being a piece or parcel of land si-
tuated on the west bank of the River Piako,
Frith of the Thames, about forty miles by water
from the sea; having four miles frontage north
and south by the said River Piako, running back
and bounded
on the north by the lands of Mr. Abercrombie,
and on the south by the lands of Capt. M'Lean.
Alleged to have been purchased for claimant,
in December, 1839, from Koenaki, and
other native chiefs, by Gordon Sandeman,
Esq., by means of his agent Mr. W. E.
Cormack.
Consideration-merchandise to the amount of
about £640 sterling.

Nature of conveyance-Deed to Mr. Cor-
mack, dated 31st December, 1839.

Case No. 198.-CORNELIUS PROUT, of Cook's
River, New South Wales, claimant
2,000, Two thousand acres, more or less,
being a portion of land situated on the east side
of Coromandel Harbour, Frith of the Thames,
in the north island of New Zealand, and known
by the name of the Tikki Tikki, marked by a
line from the harbour extending inland. (Boun-
daries not stated.)
Alleged to have been purchased by the claim-
ant in April, 1839, from Horeta, and other
native chiefs, not named.
Consideration-cash or merchandise to the
amount of £60 sterling.
Nature of conveyance-not stated.

Case No. 202.-G. F. ROBINSON, of the Bay of
Islands, New Zealand, claimant.
500, Five hundred acres, more or less, being
all that Island, named Hourakia, situated in the
Frith of the Thames, about two and a half miles
north-west of Motu Tapu.
Alleged to have been purchased on the 11th
January, 1840, from the native chiefs
Adirangi, Howa, Mutu, Paieroto, and
Ngatai, by Mr. Thomas Maxwell, through
whom claimant derives.
Consideration-merchandise to the amount of
about £40 sterling.
Nature of conveyance-not stated.

Case No. 207 (b)-GORDON SANDEMAN, of
Sydney, merchant, claimant.
22,000, Twenty-two thousand acres, more or
less, situated on the east bank of the River
Piako, Frith of the Thames; commencing at
the point of the junction of the River Piako and
Rivulet Waitoa, about thirty miles from the sea;
bounded on the west by the River Piako, and by
lands in the possession of sever. 1 Europeans;
on the south by the Rivitahe hills, on the east
by land belonging to the Ngatiawia tribe, and
by the Rivulet Waitoa, northwards from Ka-
rakka or Pahiamanee to the point of beginning.
Alleged to have been purchased from Koenaki,
and other chiefs, not named, on the 31st
December, 1839.
Consideration-merchandise, value not stated.
Nature of conveyance-not stated.

Case No. 223.-JOHN THAIN, of -- claimant,
7,680, Seven thousand six hundred and
eighty acres, more or less, situated on the west
bank of the River Piako, Frith of the Thames,
distant nearly sixty miles by the river from the
sea, having a frontage of two miles north and
south by the river; bounded by Mr. Gordon's
land on the north; and by land of Wm. E.
Cormack on the south, and running back to the
land of the Waikato tribe.
Alleged to have been purchased on the 31st
December, 1839, from Koenaki and other
chiefs not named.
Consideration-merchandise, value not stated.
Nature of conveyance-not stated.

Case No. 240 (f)-GEORGE WELLER, of Sydney,
merchant, claimant.
480,000, Four hundred and eighty thousand