✨ Land Claim Hearing Notices
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
OF WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5th, 1843.
Published by Authority.
VOL. III.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1843. [No. 14.
NOTICE OF HEARING.
Land Commissioners' Office,
5th April, 1843.
I, MATHEW RICHMOND, a Commissioner
appointed to examine and report upon
Claims to Grants of Land in New Zealand, do
hereby give Notice, that I shall proceed to In-
vestigate the following Claims at Hauraki,
River Thames, the residence of Mr. Preece, of
the Church Missionary Society, on the 8th of
June, 1843, and following days, at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon.
The Sittings of my Court will be continued
at the aforesaid place until the 8th of July,
1843.
All Parties interested are hereby summoned
to be in attendance, with their witnesses and
original deeds and documents, and copies thereof,
(with translations if in Maori), the latter to re-
main with the Commissioner; and Claimants
are reminded, that the fee of Five pounds must
be paid to the Commissioner before the investi-
gation of any Claim, or of any opposition thereto.
Case No. 28.- CHARLES ABERCROMBIE, of
Sydney, claimant in part.
80,000, Eighty thousand acres, more or less,
being all that piece or tract of land, situate and
bounded in manner following; (that is to say)
commencing at the mouth of a creek called
Orua, on the left bank of the River Piako, which
empties itself into the Frith of the Thames, to
run from the mouth of the said creek due west
by compass to the summit of a hill Mangakawa;
then south by west to the summit of a hill called
Tukenui; then S. by W. to another hill called
Pukunoko, then south by west along the division
line of the Piako and Wakato land to a point
due west from the western extremity of a low
ridge of hills, called Panawhaw; then due east
from the said peint to the west extremity of the
said range of low hills, and along the said range
to the eastern extremity; and then due east to
the River Piako, and then to follow the River
Piako downwards northerly to the mouth of the
said creek Orua to the commencement.
Alleged to have been purchased on the 31st
December, 1839, from the native chiefs
Koinaki, Hanuari, Pekoe-hoe, Tetware-
ponga, Hwareteatoa, Ngatireuhea, Tuma-
koe, I Tamaho, Tekeraki, and Ngatihwata,
by Mr. William Webster, who sold a moiety
to Mr. Peter Abercrombie, who sold a
tenth part of his interest to Mr. Charles
Abercrombie, who thus claims a twentieth
part of the land above described.
Consideration-various articles of merchan-
dise, value not stated.
Nature of conveyance-Deed in favor of Mr.
Webster, dated 31st December, 1839.
Case No. 29.-PETER ABERCROMBIE, of Sydney,
claimant in part.
A tract of land situated and bounded in man-
ner following; (that is to say), the half of the
island which forms Coromandel Harbour, com-
mencing at a rock called Ti Perau, on a beach
called Tawiti, and running from the said rock by
compass north-west to the opposite shore, and
in continuation to the north-east point.
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🗺️ Notice of Hearing for Land Claims Investigation at Hauraki
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey5 April 1843
Land Claims, Investigation, Hauraki, River Thames, Coromandel Harbour, Deeds, Fees
15 names identified
- Charles Abercrombie, claimant in land case 28
- Koinaki, alleged native chief seller
- Hanuari, alleged native chief seller
- Pekoe-hoe, alleged native chief seller
- Tetware-ponga, alleged native chief seller
- Hwareteatoa, alleged native chief seller
- Ngatireuhea, alleged native chief seller
- Tumakoe, alleged native chief seller
- I Tamaho, alleged native chief seller
- Tekeraki, alleged native chief seller
- Ngatihwata, alleged native chief seller
- William Webster (Mr.), initial purchaser of land
- Peter Abercrombie (Mr.), sold moiety interest in land
- Charles Abercrombie (Mr.), claims fractional interest
- Peter Abercrombie, claimant in land case 29
- Mathew Richmond, Commissioner