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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 33

"The Native Land Court Act, 1886," and its Amendments.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Waipawa on the 21st day of May, 1894, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

Registrar's Office, Wellington, 30th April, 1894.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

PARTITION.

APPLICATION UNDER SECTION 7 OF "THE NATIVE LAND COURT ACT 1886 AMENDMENT ACT, 1888," FOR THE DEFINITION OF THE CROWN'S INTERESTS.

NOTE.—Any case may be adjourned, on the application of the Natives interested, to Hastings, at the discretion of the presiding Judge.

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

IN THE VALIDATION COURT,
HELDEN AT GISBORNE.

In the matter of "The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893"; and in the matter of the Ihunui 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 five Natives, in all that parcel of land situated in the Gisborne Native Land Court District, in the District of Poverty Bay, containing by admeasurement 82 acres, more or less, being the land called or known as the Ihunui 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 29th day of July, 1881, from the Natives hereinafter mentioned to the said Andrew Reeves, for the total consideration of £145, of all their estates and interests in the said Ihunui 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 Ihunui Block (hereinbefore described), and the title to which said Ihunui Block at the time the said conveyance was executed by the said Natives was a certificate of title bearing date the 27th day of July, 1881, issued by the Native Land Court of New Zealand in favour of seven owners.

E. The estate or interest in the said Ihunui 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 29th 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 Ihunui 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 11th day of April, 1894.

ANDREW REEVES,
By his Solicitors and Agents,
NOLAN AND SKEET.
To the Registrar of the Validation Court, Gisborne.