New Zealand Gazette – 1860 – No. 8

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✨ Land Claims Adjudication

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 51

IN THE COURT OF LAND CLAIMS COMMISSIONERS.

WHEREAS pursuant to the Lands Claims Settlement Act 1856, and the Land
Claims Settlement Extension Act 1858, all persons interested in or claiming title
under any of the Crown Grants specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed, were, by notices
duly published by Her Majesty's Attorney-General in the New Zealand Gazette, required to
produce or cause to be produced the said Grants before the Land Claims Commissioner at
certain times and places in the said notices respectively prescribed: And Whereas in the said
notices all such persons were duly warned that in default of the production of the said Grants
(unless the non-production thereof should be accounted for to the satisfaction of the said Com-
missioner) such Grants would be declared null and void and become so to all intents and
purposes in like manner as if the same had been repealed in the Supreme Court by process of
scire facias: And Whereas the said Grants have not nor any of them has been produced before
me pursuant to the said notices, and no sufficient reason has been assigned to my satisfaction
for the non-production thereof;

Now I, FRANCIS DILLON BELL, a Land Claims Commissioner duly appointed by Letters
Patent under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, DO HEREBY in pursuance of the
authority in me vested in that behalf Adjudge and Determine all and singular the said Grants
specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed to be absolutely null and void, and I hereby require
all persons holding the said Grants or any of them forthwith to deliver up such Grants in order
that the same may be cancelled pursuant to law.

And I hereby further give notice, that if the said Grants be not within three months after
the publication of this adjudication in the New Zealand Gazette delivered up to be cancelled
as aforesaid, this Court will without further application from or notice to the persons in whose
names the said Grants were originally issued, proceed finally to determine the quantities of land
which pursuant to the said Acts may be granted in the respective claims of the said persons, to
determine the boundaries within which such quantities of land shall be granted, and to direct
the issue of new Grants accordingly, either to the said persons or to any persons deriving title
from them respectively, as may be ordered in that behalf.

Given under my Hand and Seal of Office at Auckland, the
twenty-ninth day of February, 1860.

(L. S.)

FRANCIS DILLON BELL,
Land Claims Commissioner.

SCHEDULE OF GRANTS.

Grantee.	Date of Grant.	Locality of Land Granted.
James Busby	16th May, 1844	270 acres at Waitangi.
James Busby	16th May, 1844	25 acres at Waitangi.
James Busby	16th May, 1844	500 acres at the western shore of the Bay of Islands.
James Busby	16th May, 1844	217 acres on the west shore of the Bay of Islands.
James Busby	16th May, 1844	100 acres at the Bay of Islands.
James Busby	16th May, 1844	60 acres at the Bay of Islands.
James Busby	16th May, 1844	868 acres at the Bay of Islands.
James Busby	16th May, 1844	1074 acres at the Bay of Islands.
James Busby	16th May, 1844	150 acres at the Bay of Islands.
George Thomas Clayton	16th May, 1844	25 acres at Kororareka.
George Thomas Clayton	16th May, 1844	3 acres near Kororareka.
George Thomas Clayton	16th May, 1844	8 acres between Korerareka and Oneroa.
Thomas Joyce	19th July, 1844	4 acres on the river Waitangi.
Joel Samuel Polack	12th September, 1844	152 acres on the Waitangi river.
James Shepherd	22nd October, 1844	2000 acres at Tauranga near Wangaroa.
John Scott	22nd October, 1844	1 acre at Paramatta, Kororareka.
Thomas Spicer	22nd October, 1844	4.acres at Kororareka.
Thomas Spicer	22nd October, 1844	1/2 acre at Te Puna, Bay of Islands
David E. Munro	1st May, 1844	550 acres on the river Thames
Peter Abercrombie	30th December, 1844	150 acres at Koupu, river Thames.
Jeremiah Nagle and John Wrenn	1st May, 1844	150 acres on the West bank of the river Piako.
John Lette	12th September, 1844	1/4 acre at Kororareka.