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ber, 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 :—

D. The estates and interests in land by the said conveyance intended to be alienated are the whole of the estates and interests in fee-simple of the Natives hereinbefore mentioned as having executed the said conveyance in the land known as the Uawa No. 2 Block (hereinbefore described), and the title to which said Uawa No. 2 Block, at the time the said conveyance was executed by the said Natives, was a Certificate of Title, No. 32, bearing date the 27th day of July, 1881, issued by the Native Land Court of New Zealand in favour of fifty-six owners.

E. The estate or interest in the said Uawa No. 2 Block which the applicant seeks to obtain through the aid of the Court is an estate in fee-simple.

F. The manner in which, and the persons through whom, the applicant came to be invested with the title or right he now holds, and the date and particulars of the conveyance under which the said applicant came to be invested with the said title or right, is as follows :—

The conveyance (previously described in paragraph c hereof), bearing date the 30th day of July, 1881, from the said Natives whose names are previously mentioned in the said paragraph c to the said Andrew Reeves.

G. The address for service of the applicant in the Town of Gisborne is at the office of Messrs. Nolan and Skeet, solicitors, off Gladstone Road, in the Town of Gisborne.

H. The applicant desires the said estates and interests in fee-simple in the said Uawa No. 2 Block of the said Natives whose names are set forth in paragraph c hereof, being the persons who executed the said conveyance (as previously mentioned), bound by the decrees of the Court, and for that purpose requires that copies of this application shall be served on the said Natives or their representatives (according to the list set forth in the Schedule hereto).

The applicant desires that all others who may claim to be interested in the validation applied for shall be treated as parties to these proceedings, but the applicant is unable (except as hereinbefore mentioned) to specify any names.

Dated at Gisborne, this 31st day of March, 1894.

ANDREW REEVES,
By his Solicitors and Agents,
NOLAN AND SKEET.

To the Registrar of the Validation Court, Gisborne.

The Schedule hereinbefore referred to.

Names of surviving Natives who have signed the said conveyance of their interests in the Uawa No. 2 Block—
Rawiri Karaha, Wainui; Hori Mokoera, Tolago Bay; Hohepa Tue, Tolago Bay; Tame Kirimana, Tolago Bay; Hami Puha, Tolago Bay; Ramari Puhipuhi, Tolago Bay; Rawiri Kauere, Tolago Bay; Henry Glover, Tolago Bay; Arapera Pahura, Tolago Bay; Peere Rakaitapu, Tolago Bay; Hami Rakaitapu, Tolago Bay; Honiana Tautau, Tolago Bay; Harata Makuru, Tolago Bay; Henare Puhipuhi, Tolago Bay; Ka Tue, Tolago Bay; Irihapeti Poia, Tolago Bay; Keita Rakaitapu, Tolago