May 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 689

ber, 1880, assigned and transferred all his right, title, and
interest in such agreement and lien to the applicant, in con-
sideration 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 suc-
cessors 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 men-
tioned, 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 oppo-
   site 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 hereinafter 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 Certifi-
cate 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 con-
veyance 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