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D. All the undivided estates, shares, and interests of the above-named Native vendors in the said Whangara Block were then and still are intended by the said Native vendors to be alienated by them respectively to him, the said Charles Seymour, and his heirs for ever, their title thereto at the time of such alienation being a Certificate of Title issued to them and other Native owners by the Native Land Court of New Zealand, bearing date the 20th day of February, 1871, entered in Book xvii. (Poverty Bay), No. 14, page 14.

E. The said Charles Seymour claims through the aid of this honourable Court the undivided shares or interests of the said fifty-eight Native owners in the said Whangara Block, to be held by him as an estate in fee-simple, free from encumbrances save and except a certain Deed of Lease, bearing date the 25th day of June, 1879, made between all the owners of the said Whangara Block of the one part, and one James Seymour, therein described, of the other part, registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds, at Napier, under the number 15319.

F. The said Charles Seymour came to be invested with the title to the said fifty-eight shares or interests by purchase direct from the said Native vendors, evidenced by a Memorandum of Transfer, bearing date the 29th day of May, 1883, duly executed by fifty-six of the said Native vendors, having indorsed thereon the certificate of a Trust Commissioner, duly stamped, and registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds, at Napier, under the number 20827, and also by another undated Memorandum of Transfer, duly executed by the other two of the said Native vendors, to him, and by a Power of Attorney, dated the 29th day of May, 1883, duly executed by all the said Native vendors, irrevocably nominating and appointing the applicant their attorney to complete the said purchases.

The applicant will also seek to obtain through the aid of the Court an order or decree charging the said Whangara Block, or such part thereof as the Court may deem fit, with the payment to the applicant of the sum of £318 10s., together with interest thereon at the rate of £8 per centum per annum, computed from the 5th day of June, 1888, until payment; the said sum of £318 10s. being the amount of costs awarded the applicant by a judgment of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, dated the 5th day of June, 1888, in action No. 339, brought by or on behalf of the Native owners of the said Whangara Block against the applicant.

The applicant will further seek to obtain through the aid of the Court an order or decree charging the said Whangara Block, or such part thereof as the Court may see fit, with the payment to the applicant of the sum of £670, together with interest thereon at the rate of £8 per centum per annum, to be computed from the 11th day of June, 1880, until payment. The said sum of £670 is the amount agreed upon by or on behalf of the Native owners of the Whangara Block to be paid to Edward O'Meara, of Gisborne, surveyor, for having surveyed for them 17,000 acres of the said Whangara Block, by deed bearing date the 11th day of June, 1880, made between Apiata te Hame and other Native owners of the one part, and the said Edward O'Meara of the other part, whereby the said Native owners further agreed "that the payment of the said sum of £670 on account of the said survey be and remain a lien and due and owing upon the said Whangara Block until payment in either money or land." The said Edward O'Meara has, by deed dated the 5th day of November, 1880, assigned and transferred all his right, title, and interest in such agreement and lien to the applicant, in consideration of the sum of £670 paid to him, the said Edward O'Meara; and the right, title, and interest of the said Edward O'Meara in and under the said agreement is now vested in the applicant, who seeks to obtain through the aid of the Court a decree for its performance by the Native owners of the said Whangara Block. The applicant will further seek to obtain through the aid of the Court an order or decree for the payment to him of the sum of £250, being a balance due by the said Native owners to him as the holder of certain promissory notes made by the said Native owners of the Whangara Block, together with interest thereon at the rate of £8 per centum per annum, computed from the 1st day of January, 1881, until payment.

The address for service of the applicant in Gisborne is at the office of his solicitor, Hugh Joseph Finn, situate in Gladstone Road, Gisborne.

The applicant desires the estates and interests of the fifty-eight persons who executed the said deeds respectively to be bound by the decree of the Court, and that all the other Native owners of the said Whangara Block be bound by all decrees of the Court made in the premises, and for that purpose requires that copies of this application shall be served on the said fifty-eight persons whose interests in the said block are claimed, and also on all the other owners of the said block, or, if dead, on their successors, and, if no successors have been appointed, then upon the nearest known relative of such deceased amongst the owners of the said Whangara Block. The addresses of such persons respectively are set forth in the list herewith.

Dated at Gisborne, this 7th day of April, 1894.

CHARLES SEYMOUR,
By his Solicitor and Agent,
HUGH J. FINN.

To the Registrar of the Validation Court
for the Gisborne District.

*Application to the Validation Court under "The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893."

IN THE VALIDATION COURT,
HOLDEN AT GISBORNE.

In the matter of "The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893"; and in the matter of the Uawa No. 2 Block.

A. ANDREW REEVES, of Tolago Bay, in the District of Poverty Bay, sheep-farmer, applies under the above-mentioned Act for the validation of the estates and interests, purchased, as appears from the conveyance hereinafter mentioned, from forty-three Natives, in all that parcel of land, situated in the Gisborne Native Land Court District, in the District of Poverty Bay, containing by admeasurement 413 acres 2 roods 15 perches, more or less, being the land called or known as the Uawa No. 2 Block.

B. The applicant desires to appear before the Validation Court on Monday, the 28th day of May, 1894, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon, or at the first sitting of the Court thereafter.

C. The nature of the transaction proposed for validation is,—

1. A Conveyance, bearing date the 30th day of July, 1881, from the Natives hereinafter mentioned to the said Andrew Reeves, for the total consideration of £555, of all their estates and interests in the said Uawa No. 2 Block, which conveyance was executed by the several Natives whose names are hereunder immediately set forth, upon the several dates and for the several considerations set opposite to the respective names of the said Natives, as follows:—