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sion line of the Piako and Wakato lands to a
point due west from the western extremity of a
low ridge of bills called Panawhau; then due
east from the said point 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, northwardly, to the
mouth of the said creek Orua to the commence-
ment.

Alleged to have been purchased on the 31st
December, 1839, from the native chiefs
Koinaki, Henuri, Tekoe-hoe, Tetware-
ponga, Hwareteatoa, Ngatireuhea, Tumakoe,
I Tamabo, Tekereko, and Ngatihwata, by
Mr. William Webster, who sold a moiety
to Mr. Peter Abercrombie, who sold a tenth
part of his interest to Mr. Robert Aber-
crombie, 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. 33.-The Reverend THOMAS AITKEN,
of Jamison-street, Sydney, claimant.
7670, Seven thousand six hundred and se-
venty acres, more or less, situated on the east
bank of the River Piako, Frith of the River
Thames; commencing opposite to the mouth
of a creek or brook called Awarroa, 40 miles
and upwards, by water, from the sea; having
4 miles frontage north by the River Piako;
bounded on the north by the land of Alexander
M'Innes; on the south by the land of Mr.
M'Donnell, and running back to the east three
miles.

Alleged to have been purchased for the
claimant on 31st December, 1839, by Mr.
W. E. Cormack, from Konaki, and other
native chiefs.

Consideration-various articles of merchan-
dise, value not stated.

Nature of conveyance-not stated.

Case No. 37 (a)- SAMUEL ASIIMORE, of Sydney,
claimant.

A certain piece or parcel of land, situate on
the River Thames, and known by the name of
Copoo, bounded as follows: from the point of
a creek from which the River's mouth bears
north 41° 40' west, say one mile; a peaked
holl in the back land, north 42 east; the
River running thence north 27 west for 732
feet, as the western boundary; a line thence
north 48° 40' east to the creek forming the
northern boundary, and the creek forming the
eastern boundary. (Contents not stated.)

Alleged to have been purchased from Amoco
of Paterangy, Teporooa, Hæroopoa, and
Tetunnewah.

Consideration-merchandise, value not stated.

Nature of conveyance-Deed in favor of
claimant, dated the 4th October, 1831.

Cate No. 37 (6)-SAMUEL ASHMORE, of Sydney,
claimant.

A certain piece or parcel of land known by
the name of Ternoto, or otherwise the Pea, and
bounded as follows: on the north by the river,
a line running thence south 20 west, 162 feet,
as the western boundary; a line from thence
south 80 west, measuring 84 feet to the creek,
as the southern boundary; the said creek form-
ing the eastern boundary. (Contents not stated).

Alleged to have been purchased from Teroho,
Pehoho, and Toedee, chiets of the River
Thames.

Nature of conveyance-Deed from the above.
named chiefs in favor of claimant, dated the
15th October, 1831.

Case No. 43.- GEORGE BEADON, of —
claimant.

15,360, Fifteen thousand three hundred and
sixty acres, more or less, situated on the east
bank of the River Piako, commencing at about
fifty-five miles from the sea by the River Piako;
has a frontage of four miles south or upwards
by the River; is bounded on the north by Mr.
M'Donnell's land; on the south by land of Mr.
Alexander M'Gregor, and runs back six miles.

Alleged to have been purchased from the na-
tive chief Koenaki, on 31st December, 1839.

Consideration-merchandise, value not stated.

Nature of conveyance-not stated.

Case No. 71 (a)-GEORGE COOPER, of the Bay
of Islands, New Zealand, Esq., claimant in
part.

80,000, Eighty thousand acres, more or less,
being all that piece or tract of land described in
Case No. 28.

Case No. 73.-W. E. CORMACK, of Sydney,
claimant

16,000, Sixteen thousand acres, more or less,
lying on the banks of the River Piako, and com-
mencing at about sixty miles by the river from
the sea; bounded on the east by the river, on
the south by lands of the Ngatiawa tribe; on
the north by land of Mr. Thairn; and on the
west by the lands of the Waikato people.

Alleged to have been purchased on the 31st
December, 1839, from Koenaki and other
chiefs.

Consideration-merchandise, value not stated.

Nature of conveyance-not stated.

Case No. 73 (6)-W. E. CORMACK, of Sydney,
claimant.

3,200, Three thousand two hundred acres,
more or less, situated on the east bank of the
River Piako, Frith of Thames, and distant from
the sea by the river about thirty-five miles, hav-
ing a frontage north and south of two miles and
a half by the said river, and running two miles
back; bounded on the south by the land of Mr.
John Mackay; on the north by land of Gordon
Sandeman, Esq.

Alleged to have been purchased from Koenaki
and other native chiefs, on the 31st De-
cember, 1839.

Consideration-merchandise, value not stated.

Nature of conveyance-not stated.

Case No. 80-W.DRAKE, of Sydney, Merchant,
claimant in part.

80,000, Eighty thousand acres, more or less,
being a tract of land situated and bounded in