New Zealand Gazette – 1869 – No. 16

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✨ Estates Administration and Land Claims

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

A TRUE and PERFECT SCHEDULE of all BALANCES paid into the Treasury of the Colony of New
Zealand at Otago, on the 21st day of April, 1865, on account of Deceased Persons' Estates
administered by ROBERT CHAPMAN, Esq., Registrar of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, as, Official
Administrator.

Names of Intestates.	Colonial Residence.	Supposed British or other Residence of Family.	Money received.	Payments made.	Balance in hands of Registrar.	Balance paid into Treasury.
			£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Thomas Griffiths	Tuapeka Gold Field	Not known	51 3 1	5 14 0	...	45 9 1
Anthanasey	Dunstan Gold Field	Cluthara, Greece	10 15 6	9 2 6	...	1 13 0
Johnny Wahn	Dunedin	Not known	14 2 0	10 4 0	...	3 18 0
William McKinnon	Queenstown	Scotland	44 12 4	7 6 0	...	37 6 4
George Jack	Wakatip Gold Field	Not known	116 18 6	32 11 3	...	84 7 3
James Allan	Ditto	Ditto	103 18 1	28 5 9	...	75 12 4
Peter Hunter	Ditto	Ditto	8 10 9	3 16 0	...	3 16 0
Thomas Connell	Waitahuna Gold Field	Ditto	17 7 11	2 14 6	...	14 13 5
James Smith	Taieri District	Scotland	110 9 3	108 17 2	...	1 12 1
William Ebsworth	Dunedin	Not known	244 10 3	38 3 0	...	206 7 3
Avery P. Allyn	Ditto	Ditto	4 2 0	1 5 0	...	2 17 0
Jeremiah Scully	West Taieri Gold Field	Canturk, Cork, Ireland.	3 10 6	2 16 0	...	0 14 6
Edward Law	Waikouaiti	England	69 16 6	62 11 0	...	7 5 6
George Davis	Ditto	Ditto	211 17 4	211 9 4	...	0 8 0
Michael Liddy	Wakatip Gold Field	County Clare, Ireland	245 2 1	179 12 1	...	65 10 8
Bartholomew Freeman..	McPherson's Gold Field	Sligo, Ireland	12 4 6	9 4 0	...	3 0 6
William Nicolls	Otago Gold Field	Castlemaine, Victoria	15 15 2	2 14 0	...	13 1 1
Edward John Garvey	Dunedin	Ireland	79 15 4	79 1 0	...	0 14 4
James Steen	Ditto	Fermanagh, Ireland	20 0 0	12 3 0	...	7 17 0
Donald Ross	Ditto	Achmanahanet, Ross-shire, Scotland.	125 9 1	28 10 0	...	96 19 1
William Purse	Dunstan Gold Field	Whitechurch, Belfast, Ireland.	15 7 3	12 8 0	...	2 19 3
George Garland Weston	Woolshed Gold Field	London, England	72 8 6	27 1 6	...	45 7 0
John Thompson	Dunedin	Not known	3 4 8	0 16 6	...	2 8 2
Joseph Paul	Nokomai Gold Field	Ditto	10 7 6	2 8 0	...	7 19 6
Archibald Cameron	Wakari	Scotland	20 0 0	15 5 6	...	4 14 6
Daniel Bennie	Hindon Gold Field	Not known	20 8 6	12 18 0	...	7 10 6
Robert Weatherspoon	Dunedin	Ditto	7 3 6	1 3 6	...	6 0 0
						£750 1 4

I certify that the above sum of seven hundred and fifty pounds one shilling and fourpence sterling
has been paid into this Sub-Treasury.

Sub-Treasury,
Otago, 21st April, 1865.

ROBERT CHAPMAN.

CHAS. LOGIE,
Sub-Treasurer.

I, DAVID LEWIS, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of the Ordinance No. 15, Session XI., of
the Legislative Council of the Islands of New Zealand, to hear and decide Claims to Land by persons
claiming Title thereto from, through, or under the New Zealand Company, report that the Claims of the
under-mentioned persons having been duly referred to me for investigation, I do hereby decide that the said
persons are respectively entitled to Crown Grants of the land set against their names in the annexed
Schedule.

New Zealand Company's Land Claimants Office,
23rd March, 1869.

DAVID LEWIS,
Commissioner.

SCHEDULE.

No. of Report.	No. of Claim.	Name of Claimant.	Commissioner's Decision.
1457	1704	Joseph Samuel Lescher	Entitled to a Crown Grant of Section No. 185, on the Plan of the City of Wellington.
1458	658	James Poulter	Entitled to a Crown Grant of the Rural Section No. 6, on the Plan of the Wainuiomata District.
1459	1654	Edwin Henry Downe, a Minor	Entitled to Crown Grants of the Sections No. 949, 951, 1075, and 1076, on the Plan of the City of Wellington. Also to Grants of the Rural Sections No. 361, 362, 363, and 365, in the Block surveyed by the New Zealand Company at Manawatu. Subject, nevertheless, to Clause VI., "Land Orders and Scrip Act, 1858." Also that the said Edwin Henry Downe is entitled to select 300 acres of Rural Land, subject to Clause II. of the above-mentioned Act. The Legal Estate to be vested in the Grantee from and after the 24th day of April, 1850.