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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

Native Land Court Notices.

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

IN THE VALIDATION COURT,
AT GISBORNE.

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

A. THE ASSETS COMPANY (LIMITED), of Scotland and New Zealand, applies for the validation of its undivided interests in Manukawhitikiti D Block, containing in the whole 544 acres 3 roods 21 perches, more or less, which interest is one contract of sale made by one of the owners, since deceased.

B. The applicant desires to appear before the Validation Court at Gisborne on the 7th day of September, 1896, at the hour of 10 a.m., or at such date, time, or place thereafter as counsel may be heard.

C. The nature of the transaction proposed for validation is a conveyance or memorandum of transfer of one undivided interest in Manukawhitikiti Proper (being the original share of Rota te Kamo), dated the 3rd day of October, 1878, to John Gibson Kinross and Andrew Graham, merchants, for the consideration of £100.

D. The land intended to be alienated is the original share of the said Rota te Kamo in the Manukawhitikiti Proper Block, subdivided out, with the shares of four other Native persons, on or about the 19th of September, 1883, into all that parcel now known as Manukawhitikiti D, containing 544 acres 3 roods 21 perches as aforesaid. The title of the Native alienor at the time of sale was memorial of ownership.

E. The applicant seeks to obtain an estate and interest in fee-simple.

F. The applicant derives title from Messrs. Kinross and Graham, by conveyance dated the 13th day of June, 1894.

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

H. The applicant desires that the original estate, share, and interest of the said Rota te Kamo, now vested in successors appointed on or about the 12th day of March, 1892, shall be bound by the decree of the Court; and for that purpose requires that copies of this application shall be served upon the said successors, their trustees, or their representatives, according to the list lodged herewith.

I. The applicant desires all other persons who claim to be interested in the validation applied for, or as claimants of undivided shares in the said Manukawhitikiti D Block, 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, or its location on partition, other than those persons named in the Second Schedule of the said list of names aforesaid.

The applicant is not aware of any aboriginal native or other person entitled to object to the validation prayed.

Dated this 24th day of July, 1896.

THE ASSETS COMPANY (LIMITED)
(By its Solicitor,
C. DE LAUTOUR).

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

IN THE VALIDATION COURT.

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

A. HENRY WILLIAM BRIGGS, of Pahiatua, in the Provincial District of Wellington, land and estate agent, applies under the above-mentioned Act for the validation of the transfers of the above-named block by the several owners thereof.

B. The applicant desires to appear before the Validation Court at Hastings on the 18th day of August, 1896, at the hour of 10 o’clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as the applicant, by himself or his counsel, can be heard, to ask for relief.

C. The transactions proposed for validation are,—

(1.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 3rd November, 1883, from Hineipakatia and Te Waihiku to Herbert Thomas Halsley Knight, of Waipukurau, Hawke’s Bay, accountant, in consideration of £50 paid to transferors.

(2.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 3rd November, 1883, from Nikaore te Wharepouri and Pera Wheraro, her husband, to the aforesaid Herbert Thomas Halsley Knight, in consideration of £40 paid.

(3.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 29th April, 1884, from Te Ruihi to Herbert Thomas Halsley Knight, in consideration of £40 paid.

(4.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 6th May, 1884, from Hokomata and William Cannon, her husband, to Herbert Thomas Halsley Knight, in consideration of £100 paid.

(5.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 17th May, 1884, from Manuera to Herbert Thomas Halsley Knight, in consideration of £40 paid.

(6.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 10th December, 1888, from Ekenarangi Nepia Hapuku, Arapata Hapuku, Tangata ke Hapuku, Pohuka Hapuku, and Hapuku te Nehu, to James Alfred Turner and James Irvine, both of Napier.

D. The land intended to be alienated is the Waihingahinga Block, granted to Te Hapuku, Hikomata te Ruihi, Hineipakatia, Nikaore te Wharepouri, Te Waihiku, and Manuera, by Crown grant, dated 7th December, 1871, registered at Napier, Vol. i., folio 63.

E. The applicant seeks to obtain an estate in fee-simple or absolute freehold title to the said block.

F. The applicant became invested with his title under the following instruments:—

(1.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 3rd November, 1883, from Hineipakatia and Te Waihiku to said Herbert Thomas Halsley Knight, of all their interests in Waihingahinga Block.

(2.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 3rd November, 1883, from Nikaore te Wharepouri and Pera Wheraro, her husband, to said Herbert Thomas Halsley Knight, of all their interest in Waihingahinga Block.

(3.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 29th April, 1884, from Te Ruihi to Herbert Thomas Halsley Knight, of all his interest in Waihingahinga Block.

(4.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 6th May, 1884, from Hokomata and William Cannon, her husband, to Herbert Thomas Halsley Knight, of all their interests in Waihingahinga Block.

(5.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 17th May, 1884, from Manuera to Herbert Thomas Halsley Knight, of all his interest in the Waihingahinga Block.

(6.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 10th December, 1888, from Ekenarangi, Nepia Hapuku, Arapata Hapuku, Tangata ke Hapuku, Pohuka Hapuku, and Hapuku te Nehu, to the said James Alfred Turner and James Irvine.

(7.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 3rd August, 1888, the said Herbert Thomas Halsley Knight to James Alfred Turner and James Irvine, of all his interest in the Waihingahinga Block.

(8.) Memorandum of mortgage, dated 20th May, 1890, James Irvine and James Alfred Turner to the National Bank of New Zealand (Limited), of the whole of the Waihingahinga Block.

(9.) Memorandum of transfer, dated 13th November, 1893, the National Bank of New Zealand, in exercise of power of sale as mortgagee, to Henry William Briggs, of the whole of the Waihingahinga Block.

G. All notices and other documents may be served upon the applicant by leaving the same at the offices of Messrs. Brown and Dean, solicitors, 5, Lambton Quay, in the City of Wellington.

H. The applicant requires that copies of the application shall be served upon the said grantees and Native transferors or their representatives, who are as follows, so far as the applicant is able to ascertain:—

Ekengarangi Arapata, of Te Aute,
Te Pohuka Tangata, of Te Aute,
Te Hapuku te Nahu, of Te Aute,
Arihi te Nahu, of Te Aute,
Mepara Maku, of Te Aute,
Hapuku te Nahu, of Te Aute,
Te Ruihi, of Waipawa, as representative of Hikomata, deceased; Te Ruihi, as grantee; Nikaore te Wharepouri, of Te Aute; Manuera, of Te Aute.

Dated this 25th day of June, 1896.

H. W. BRIGGS.
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