New Zealand Gazette – 1871 – No. 49

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✨ Deceased Estates and Land Claims

PARTICULARS

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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PARTICULARS of the Estates of Deceased Persons which have been placed under the charge of
WM. STUART, Esq., Curator at Hokitika of the Estates of Deceased Persons, during the Months
of June and July, 1871.

No.	Name of Deceased.	Colonial Residence.	Supposed British or Foreign Residence.	Date of Rule or Order.	£	s.	d.	Time of Deceased's Death.	Remarks.
1	Bourke, Patrick	Ahaura	Not known	No order	0	1	6	18th May, 1871
2	Cattle, James	Greymouth	Yorkshire...	28th July, 1871	150	0	0	7th Mar., 1871
3	Dixon, Thomas	Stoney Lead	Wales	No order	15	0	0	24th Mar., 1871
4	Duckworth, Wm.	Langdon's Ferry	Not known	No order	5	9	0	8th May, 1871
5	Enright, Daniel	Stoney Lead	Co. Kerry...	No order	25	0	0	18th May, 1871
6	Matheson, Andrew	Hokitika	Scotland	No order	30	0	0	12th June, 1871
7	Miller, George	Ross	Canada	No order	...	...	...	27th Feb., 1871	Value of property not yet ascertained.
8	McMahon, Philip	Woodstock	Co. Cavan...	28th July, 1871	230	0	0	30th May, 1871
9	Murthold, Felix Jean	Half Ounce	Unknown	No order	0	5	0	7th July, 1871
10	O'Hagan, Thomas	Woodpecker Terrace	Co. Dublin	...	300	0	0	12th June, 1871
11	Polin, John	Nelson Gully	Co. Down	...	...	...	...	10th June, 1871	Value of property not yet ascertained.
12	Simpson, Eml. Ambrose	Okarito	Not known	No order	20	0	0	6th Feb., 1871

WM. STUART,
Curator.

Dated the 7th day of August, 1871.

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 the Crown Grants of land set against their names in the
annexed Schedule.

New Zealand Company's Land Claimants Office,
Wellington, 10th August, 1871.

DAVID LEWIS,
Commissioner.

SCHEDULE.

No. of Report.	No. of Claim.	Name of Claimant.	Commissioner's Decision.
1,515	1,150	John Hoskins	Entitled to a Crown Grant of part of Section No. 174, on the plan of the City of Wellington. The legal estate to be antevested in the Grantee as from the 15th day of June, 1855.
1,516	1,484	John Paterson	Entitled to a Crown Grant of part of Rural Sections Nos. 136 and 137, Left Bank, Wanganui River, containing one hundred and eighty-eight acres more or less. The legal estate to be antevested in the Grantee as from the 21st May, 1860.
1,517	1,543	Henry Meech	Entitled to a Crown Grant of part of Section No. 596, on the plan of the City of Wellington. The legal estate to be antevested in the Grantee as from the 8th day of December, 1860.
1,518	1,380 1,698 1,480	A. de B. Brandon	Entitled to a Crown Grant of part of Section No. 596, on the plan of the City of Wellington, adjoining the part referred to in Report No. 949. The legal estate to be antevested therein as from the 13th May, 1868. Also entitled to a Crown Grant of Section No. 13, Harbour District. The legal estate to be antevested therein as from the 4th May, 1860.
1,519	1,619	Robert Cockburn	Entitled to a Crown Grant of part of Section No. 43, Karori District, being the allotment numbered 18, on the subdivisional plan of the section. The legal estate to be antevested in the Grantee as from the 31st January, 1855.
1,520	1,717	John Walker	Entitled to a Crown Grant of the South-western portion of Section No. 25, Right Bank of the Wanganui River, containing about 54 acres, more or less. The legal estate to be antevested in the Grantee as from the 16th day of October, 1861.
1,521	1,718	Edmond Robert Wodehouse and Robert Spencer Robinson	Entitled to take the delivery of a Crown Grant to be issued (in accordance with the provisions of "The Crown Grants Act, 1866") in the name of Charles Buller, late of No. 2, Chester Place, in the County of Middlesex, in England, for Section No. 427, on the plan of the City of Wellington, and for Rural Section No. 20, on the plan of the Porirua District, Kinapoura Division. The legal estate to be antevested in the Grantee as from the 3rd June, 1841. Subject to a direction of the Commissioner.