JUNE 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 999

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

Registrar's Office, Wellington, 25th June, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Native Land Court will be held at Kaiapoi on the 30th day of July, 1894, to hear and determine the several matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written, in respect of which cations have been received by the Registrar, and all such other matters as may be lawfully brought before it.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

PARTITION.

No. Name of Applicant. Name of Land.

1 Teone Tikao Wira Huano Weka (? Oweka).
2 Makarini Mokomoko (C. 150-3) Tawera No. 18776.
3 Makarini Mokomoko (C. 150-5) Tawera No. 2061.
4 Makarini Mokomoko (C. 150-1) Tawera No. 492.
5 Makarini Mokomoko (C. 122-1) Orohaki.
6 Henere Mauhara and others (C. 19-3) Kaiapoi C, Section 138.
7 Teo Pita Tipa and others (C. 20-1) Kaiapoi D, Section 137.
8 Henere Mauhara and others (C. 100-1) Kaiapoi, Section 131.

REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS.

No. Name of Applicant. Name of Land.

1 Rewi Koruarua and Maiharanui Maopo (J. 94-696) Subdivision 15, Native Reserve No. 878, Taumutu Survey District (cemetery and church-site).
2 H. K. Taiaroa (J. 93-1694) Taumutu 5B, Block VII., Reserve No. 901.

APPLICATION FOR PROBATE.

No. Name of Applicant. Name of Deceased. Names of Persons objecting.

1 Teoti Timoti Rapatini (93-2449) Wiremu Pouhawaiki Paurini Hirawea, Matiria te Ruru, Himiona Pohata te Ataotu.

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 Panikau No. 1 Block.

A. EDWARD MURPHY, of Te Arai, sheep-farmer, applies under the above-mentioned Act for the validation of his interests in the above block, containing 1,433 acres, more or less, situate in the Native Land Court District of Gisborne.

B. The applicant desires to appear before the Validation Court on Monday, the 13th day of August, 1894, at 10 a.m., or at the first sitting of the Court thereafter.

C. The nature of the transactions proposed for validation is,

1. Memorandum of Transfer, entered into and made by the several Native transferrors to the applicant, upon the dates and for the several considerations shown hereunder:

Name of Native who Date of Execution Consideration
executed of said paid to
said Transfer. Transfer. Native who
executed
said
Transfer.

Rapata Taita 28 Sept., 1881 29 17
Katerina Wairoro 11 October, 1881 29 17
Emi Miria Pu 22 October, 1881 29 17
Hoana Angina 22 October, 1881 29 17
Peta Kahure 29 October, 1881 29 17
Hataraka Teme-para 29 17
Hare Noanoa 16 January, 1883 29 17
Emere Ngahue 21 March, 1884 29 17
Hataraka Teme-para 1 April, 1884
Henare Puru 5 May, 1885 60 0

2. Memorandum of Transfer, dated the 23rd November, 1882, made by Huhana Whakarau, vendor, to Edward Murphy, in consideration of £25.

D. The land the estates and interests in which were intended to be alienated is all that block known as Panikau No. 1, situate in the District of Poverty Bay; and the title of the said block at the time of the several alienations claimed to be validated was certificate of title dated the 28th July, 1881.

E. The estate or interest which the applicant seeks to obtain through the aid of the Court in the several estates and interests claimed is a freehold.

F. The applicant came to be invested with the title he now holds by direct purchase from the several vendors whose names are set out under c.

G. The address for service of the applicant in the Town of Gisborne is at the office of Cecil Albert de Lautour, solicitor.

H. The applicant desires that the estates and interests of the Native persons aforesaid, who executed the said memoranda of transfer set out under the letter c of this application, shall be bound by the decree of the Court, and for that purpose requires that copies of this application shall be served upon them or their representatives according to the list set forth in the Schedule hereto.

At the hearing the applicant will further rely, in support of his application, upon the investigation into his title made by the Examiner of Titles appointed under "The Land Transfer Act, 1885," and upon the certificate of title, Vol. xxiii., folio 64, issued thereon.

The applicant desires that all others who may claim to be interested in the validation applied for shall also be treated as parties to these proceedings, but the applicant is unable to specify any names as those of persons entitled to object to the validation applied for.

The applicant is not aware of any other aboriginal native, nor of any European, who may properly claim to be an objector.

Dated this 13th day of June, 1894.

Signed by the applicant, Edward Murphy, by his agent, in the presence of A. McKay, law clerk, Gisborne.

EDWARD MURPHY
(By his agent, C. A. DE LAUTOUR, Solicitor, Gisborne).

To the Registrar of the Validation Court, Gisborne.