THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 867

Rehearing of Native Land Claim.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twelfth day of December, 1876.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the fifty-eighth section of "The
Native Land Act, 1873," (hereinafter referred
to as "the said Act,") it is enacted that, upon the
application of any persons interested in any Native
land who may feel themselves aggrieved by the de-
cision of the Native Land Court in respect thereof,
the Governor in Council may order a rehearing of
any matter heard and decided under the provisions
of the said Act, within such a period of time from
the publication of the decision and memorial of
ownership, in manner in the said Act required, as
may be limited in such order; and upon such order
being made, all proceedings theretofore taken by the
Court in such matter shall be annulled, and the case
shall commence de novo, and shall proceed in manner
provided by the said Act: Provided that no appli-
cation for a rehearing shall be entertained if it be
made after six months shall have elapsed from the
time of such publication:

And whereas by the eighth section of "The Native
Land Act Amendment Act, 1874," (hereinafter
referred to as "the said Amendment Act,") it is
enacted that in any case where an application for a
rehearing of any matter heard and decided under
"The Native Lands Act, 1865," and the Acts amend-
ing the same, shall have been made subsequently to
the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three, the Governor in Council may, in
the manner provided by the fifty-eighth section of the
said Act, order a rehearing of any such matter so
heard and decided as aforesaid, and all the provisions
of the said Act respecting rehearings, so far as appli-
cable, shall extend to any rehearing under the said
Amendment Act: Provided that such application
shall in each case have been made within six months
from the date of the decision of the Court in such
case:

And whereas at a sitting of the Native Land Court
of New Zealand, at Napier, in the Hawke's Bay
District, in the Province of Hawke's Bay, on the
sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-six, the application of Atareta Taupe, an
aboriginal native of New Zealand, for the subdivision
of a piece of land called Mangaorapa, situate at Po-
rangahau, in the said district, was heard and decided,
and a certain order was thereupon made by the said
Court:

And whereas on or about the twelfth day of
October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six,
an application was made to the said Court, by and
on behalf of a certain aboriginal native claiming to
have an interest in the said land, for a rehearing of
the said application for subdivision, and it is expedient
that the said application for subdivision should be re-
heard before the said Court:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor,
in exercise and pursuance of the above-recited power,
and by and with the advice and consent of the Exe-
cutive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby order
and direct that the said application of Atareta Taupe
for the subdivision of the piece of land aforesaid
shall be reheard as and in the manner provided by
"The Native Land Act, 1873;" and doth also order

that such rehearing shall take place within one year
from the said sixth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointing Epiniha Pona Trustee under "The Maori
Real Estate Management Act, 1867."

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twelfth day of December, 1876.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Maori Real Estate Manage-
ment Act, 1867," it is enacted that if any title
to or interest in any hereditaments shall accrue to
any Maoris, who or any of whom shall be infants,
lunatics, or under legal disability, it shall be lawful
for the Governor in Council, if he think fit, to order
that such hereditaments, or any part thereof or
interest therein as shall to the Governor in Council
be shown to belong to such infant, lunatic, or other
person under legal disability, shall be vested in trus-
tees, as the Governor in Council shall think fit:

And whereas, by virtue of a certificate of title
bearing date the thirteenth day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, the parcel
of land and hereditaments described in the Schedule
hereto became vested in Nakora Kopu and others,
of the District of Te Wairoa, in the Province of
Hawke's Bay, aboriginal natives of New Zealand :

And whereas the said Nakora Kopu died intestate:

And whereas at a sitting of the Native Land
Court held at Te Wairoa, in the province aforesaid,
on the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five, Raiha Kopu claimed
to succeed to the interest and share of the said
Nakora Kopu in the parcel of land described in the
said Schedule:

And it was ordered by the said Court that Raiha
Kopu, Katerina Kopu, Hiria Kopu, and Itiria Kopu
(an infant under the age of twenty-one years) should
succeed to the interest and share of the said Nakora
Kopu in the hereditaments aforesaid:

And it is expedient that Epiniha Pona be appointed
Trustee under the said Act on behalf of the said
Itiria Kopu:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony, in exercise and in
pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him
by the said Act, doth hereby order that the interest
and share of the said Itiria Kopu in the land
described in the Schedule hereto shall be and remain
vested in the said

EPINIHA PONA,
as Trustee, within the meaning and for the purposes
of the said Act, for the said Itiria Kopu during her
minority.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land at Te Wairoa, in the District
of Te Wairoa, and Province of Hawke's Bay, contain-
ing eighty-eight acres and two roods, more or less,
and called or known by the name of Hinewhaki East.
Bounded towards the North-east by lines 5535 links
and 2,300 links; towards the South-west by Hine-
whaki West Block, 7320 links; and towards the
North-west by the Rua-a-Rakaiputara Block, 2200
links.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.