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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 claim of the
under-mentioned person having been duly referred to me for investigation, I do hereby decide that the said
person is entitled to receive the Crown Grant of the land set against his name in the annexed Schedule.

New Zealand Company's Land Claimants Office,
Wellington, 17th June, 1878.

DAVID LEWIS,
Commissioner.

SCHEDULE.

witi District. The grant to issue in the name of James Bishop, in
accordance with the provisions of clause 34, "Crown Grants Act, 1866."
The legal estate to be antevested therein as from the 17th December,
1841. |

Manawatu Land Orders.

NOTICE is hereby given that on the 30th day of
November, 1877, an Act was passed by the
General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "An
Act to provide for the satisfaction of certain Land
Orders issued by the New Zealand Company, and
theretofore exercised in the Manawatu or Horo-
whenua Districts, within the aforesaid Company's
settlement at Wellington."

The attention of every person claiming under such
land orders as aforesaid is drawn to the provisions of
the said Act next following, that is to say,—

Every person claiming land within the Provincial
District of Wellington under any land order originally issued by the New Zealand Company, and
which has been exercised in the Manawatu or Horowhenua Districts, must within twelve months from
the 30th November, 1877, if he be a resident in the
colony, and within two years from such date if he be
resident elsewhere, give notice in writing, by himself or his agent, to the Commissioner appointed for
the District of Wellington, under the Ordinance of
the Legislative Council of the Islands of New Zealand, Session XI., No. 15, for the hearing and
decision of his claim under the provisions of the said
Act; and, at the time of making his application for
the satisfaction of his claim, must lodge with the
Commissioner the original land order under which
he claims to be entitled to select any section of land,
unless such land order shall previously have been
lodged with the Commissioner. No claim can be
heard and determined until such original land order
is lodged, or proof of the loss given to the satisfaction
of the Commissioner.

The Commissioner will report to the Governor the
name of the person found to be entitled to land under
any particular land order, the particular number
thereof, the fact of such land order having been
lodged with him or of his having received satisfactory proof of the loss thereof, and the amount in
value stated in such land order: such report is to be
considered and approved by the Governor in Council
and forthwith published in the New Zealand Gazette,
with the date of the approval attached thereto.
Notification of the Governor's approval is a sufficient
warrant to the Commissioner to issue, to the persons
named in such approved report as being entitled to
land, scrip for the amount of money originally paid
for the land order under which any such persons have
been found to be entitled, together with compensation
to the amount of one pound for every one pound
sterling represented by such land order added thereto; so that every person found entitled shall receive
two pounds in value for every twenty shillings in
value to which he shall have been found entitled,
except in cases of lost land orders, in which case
proceedings must be taken under "The Lost Land
Orders Act, 1861."

No scrip can be delivered by the Commissioner
until the land order in satisfaction of which such
scrip is issued has been cancelled by him.

Upon the receipt of scrip all the right, title, interest,
claim, and demand of the person to whom the
same is issued, and of all other persons whatsoever,
to the land in respect of which scrip shall have been
issued, is extinguished. And the issue of such scrip
is, both at law and in equity, a full and complete
performance by the Crown, on behalf of the New
Zealand Company, of the contract or obligation of
the Company in respect of which such scrip shall
have been issued.

All such scrip to be issued under the authority of
the said Act is transferable, and is receivable as cash
by the Receiver of Land Revenue in or towards the
purchase of waste lands of the Crown in any part of
the Provincial District of Wellington, but not elsewhere, and must be exercised within five years from
the date of its issue. Claims for the exercise of scrip
not made within such period of five years are barred.

The Commissioner cannot entertain or investigate
any claims in which the claimant shall not have notified his intention to have his claim heard and decided
under the provisions of the said Act, within the time
limited for making such application. All claimants
failing to avail themselves of the provisions of the
said Act are barred, and their claim extinguished by
reason of such default.

Claimants not resident within the Colony of New
Zealand should forthwith appoint a duly authorized
agent to do and perform whatever may be requisite
to obtain the benefit of the said Act.

Dated at Wellington, this fourth day of January,
1878.

DAVID LEWIS,
A Commissioner for the purposes of the
above-referred-to Act.