New Zealand Gazette – 1874 – No. 1

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✨ Land Claims and Deceased Estates

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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,
Wellington, 24th December, 1873.
DAVID LEWIS,
Commissioner.

SCHEDULE.

No. of
Report.
No. of
Claim.
Name of Claimant.
Commissioner's Decision.

1305
Robert Edwards
...
Entitled to a Crown Grant of 30 acres, more or less, part of
Section No. 23, Ohiro District. The legal estate to be
antevested in the Grantee as from the 30th day of October,

1560
1638
The Right Reverend Bishop
of Wellington and others,
Trustees of the General
Synod of the Church of
England in New Zealand,
Diocese of Wellington
Entitled to a Grant of 100 acres of rural land, in right of a
Land Order No. 1081 issued by the New Zealand Com-
pany. The selection of the land to be made in accordance
with the provisions of Clause 2, "Land Orders and Scrip
Act, 1858."

1561
1626
John Edward Wainhouse...
Entitled to a Crown Grant of the Rural Section No. 134 on
the plan of the Hutt District. The legal estate to be ante-
vested in the Grantee as from the 15th May, 1856.

PARTICULARS of the Estates of Deceased Persons which have been placed under the charge of the
PUBLIC TRUSTEE during the Months of October and November, 1873.

No.	Name of Deceased.	Colonial Residence.	Supposed British or Foreign Residence.	Date of Rule or Order.	Value or Estimated Value of Personal Estate.	Time of Deceased's Death.
1	Richard Doyle	Waitaki		None required	£6 8s. 6d.	2 Aug., 1873
2	J. Motherwell	Green Island,
Dunedin		None required	Under £20	16 June, 1873
3	Andrew Wilson	Dunedin		None required	£4 16s. 6d.	17 July, 1873
4	T. Skuse	Oamaru	Bath, England	None required	Under £20	28 May, 1873
5	Charles McLaggan	Napier	Perth,
Scotland	None required	£33 2s.	7 Jan., 1873
6	Joseph Valentine	Kaiapoi		None required	14s.	Aug., 1873
7	Henry Levy	Thames		None required	Under £50	3 Sept., 1873
8	Henry Brown,
otherwise H. Bluff	Auckland		None required	Under £20	18 Aug., 1873
9	Richard Dunn	Rangiriri		None required	Under £50	17 May, 1873
10	Jas. Tapp	Dunedin	Berkshire	None required	£4 14s. 6d.	31 Dec., 1873
11	John Duff	Dunedin		...	3s.	12 Aug., 1873
12	James Morris	Hokitika		...	£12 15s.	13 July, 1873
13	Samuel Ashpool	St. Alban's,
Canterbury		...	£1 15s. 5d.	13 July, 1873
14	Peter Leary	Kaipara		None required	Under £20	25 May, 1873
15	Edmund John
Gilpin	Auckland		22nd Oct., 1873	£762 7s. 3d.	1871	Day unknown, lost