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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

Notice of Inquiry under Section 118 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS Richard Douglas Wallace, of Whirokino, a person claiming to have leased from certain of the Native owners shares or interests in the Manawatu-Kukutauaki 7d No. 1 Block, Subdivision 6, and to have been prior to the date of the passing of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” in negotiation for the lease of certain other shares or interests therein, has notified such claim to the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, and to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Wellington District, and has requested that an inquiry into the circumstances thereof may be held as provided by section 118 of the said Act: And whereas the Chief Judge has referred the said claim to Alexander Mackay, Esq., a Judge of the Native Land Court, for inquiry as aforesaid: I hereby give notice that such inquiry will be held at the Native Land Court House, Otaki, on the 25th day of February, 1895, at 10 a.m.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of February, 1895.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.

Notice of Inquiry under Section 118 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS John Davies, of Whirokino, farmer, a person claiming to have purchased from certain of the Native owners shares or interests in the Manawatu-Kukutauaki 7d No. 1 Block, Subdivision No. 7, and to have been prior to the date of the passing of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” in negotiation for the purchase of certain other shares or interests therein, has notified such claim to the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, and to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Wellington District, and has requested that an inquiry into the circumstances thereof may be held as provided by section 118 of the said Act: And whereas the Chief Judge has referred the said claim to Alexander Mackay, Esq., a Judge of the Native Land Court, for inquiry as aforesaid: I hereby give notice that such inquiry will be held at the Native Land Court House, Otaki, on the 25th day of February, 1895, at 10 a.m.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of February, 1895.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.

Notice of Inquiry under Section 118 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS William Muhunga Broughton, of Napier, a person claiming to have leased from certain of the Native owners shares or interests in the Omahu No. 3 Block, and to have been prior to the date of the passing of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” in negotiation for the lease of certain other shares or interests therein, has notified such claim to the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, and to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Napier District, and has requested that an inquiry into the circumstances thereof may be held as provided by section 118 of the said Act: And whereas the Chief Judge has referred the said claim to Herbert Frank Edger, Esq., a Judge of the Native Land Court, for inquiry as aforesaid: I hereby give notice that such inquiry will be held at the Native Land Court House, Whanganui, on the 5th day of March, 1895, at 10 a.m.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of February, 1895.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.

Notice of Inquiry under Section 118 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS G. A. Gammon and Co., of Napier, persons claiming to have purchased from certain of the Native owners shares or interests in the Tahoraite No. 1 Block, and to have been prior to the date of the passing of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” in negotiation for the purchase of certain other shares or interests therein, have notified such claim to the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, and to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Napier District, and have requested that an inquiry into the circumstances thereof may be held as provided by section 118 of the said Act: And whereas the Chief Judge has referred the said claim to Herbert Frank Edger, Esq., a Judge of the Native Land Court, for inquiry as aforesaid: I hereby give notice that such inquiry will be held at the Native Land Court House, Hastings, on the 5th day of March, 1895, at 10 a.m.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of February, 1895.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.

Rules under “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS by “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” it is enacted that the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court may from time to time, with the approval of the Governor in Council, make and prescribe rules of practice and procedure and forms of proceedings in the various matters in which jurisdiction is or may be conferred on the said Court, and for regulating the sittings of the said Court, and for fixing the fees to be paid under the said Act, and the time and mode of payment, and for enforcing payment thereof:

Now, therefore, I, George Boutflower Davy, Chief Judge of the said Court, do hereby, for the purposes aforesaid, and each and every of them, and in exercise of the power and authority in that behalf vested in me by the hereinbefore-recited Act, make the rules and regulations and prescribe the forms of procedure following:—

PROCEDURE UNDER SECTION 120 OF “THE NATIVE LAND COURT ACT, 1894.”

1. THE approval of a Judge to a renewal of lease under section 120 of the Act may be given by indorsement on the deed or instrument of renewal either before or after the execution thereof. It shall not be necessary that such approval shall be given in open Court.

2. A copy of such deed or instrument and indorsement, certified by the Judge as correct, shall be filed with the Registrar for the district within which the land is situate, and shall be forwarded by him to the Court with the application for confirmation of such renewal under section 53 of the Act. It shall be the duty of the Court, before confirming such renewal, to satisfy itself that the instrument presented for confirmation is in accordance with the certified copy.

3. The fee for filing such copy shall be five shillings (5s.), payable by stamp affixed thereto.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 30th day of January, 1895.

G. B. DAVY,
Chief Judge.

Approved in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

IN THE VALIDATION COURT,
HELD AT GISBORNE.

In the matter of “The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893”; and in the matter of the Paremata Block.

A. WE, James Carroll and Wiremu Pere, both of Gisborne, in the Provincial District of Auckland, members of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, apply under the above-mentioned Act for relief against Henri Loisel, of Waihau, in the County of Cook, in respect of mesne profits of the Paremata Block, situate within the Native Land Court District of Gisborne, since the 1st day of January, 1889.

B. We desire to appear before the Validation Court on Monday, the 11th day of March, 1895, at half-past 10 o'clock in the forenoon, or at the first sitting of the Court thereafter.

C. The relief claimed by the applicants against the said Henri Loisel is the payment by the said Henri Loisel to the applicants of the sum of £500 per annum for the years 1889, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, and up to the date of the said Henri Loisel giving up possession of the said land, or, in the alternative, that the said Henri Loisel be ordered and decreed by this honourable Court to account to the applicants for the use and occupation by him of the said land during the years before mentioned.

D. The manner in which the applicants came to be invested with the title of the said land is under and by virtue of an agreement bearing date the 17th day of February, 1892, made between the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company (Limited) of the first part, William Lee Rees of the second part, and the applicants of the third part, as trustees.

E. The address of the applicants for service in the Town of Gisborne is at the office of Messrs. Rees and Day, in the Gladstone Road.

F. We require a copy of this application to be served upon Henri Loisel, of Waihau, East Coast, sheep-farmer.

Dated at Gisborne, this 22nd day of January, 1895.

JAMES CARROLL,
WIREMU PERE

(By their Solicitor and Agent,
VICTOR GRACE DAY).

To the Registrar of the Validation Court,
Gisborne.

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