Aug. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1321

Reserves in the Town of Mangaweka for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 1st August, 1896.

THE under-mentioned reserves in the Town of Manga-
weka will be offered for lease by public auction at
Mangaweka on Tuesday, the 8th September, 1896, for the
term of seven years.

SCHEDULE.
TOWN OF MANGAWEKA.

On Sections 40, 43, and 44 there are improvements to the
value of £17, £25, and £30 respectively, and the persons
who effected them will be allowed one month from the date
of sale in which to remove them.

Terms of Sale.—A deposit of a half-year's rent and £1 1s.
lease-fee must be made on the fall of the hammer. No
allowance whatsoever shall be payable on account of im-
provements effected by the lessees.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Run, Southland, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 1st August, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
pastoral run will be offered for lease by public
auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 23rd September,
1896:—

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Pastoral Run No. 207, Hokonui Survey District: Area,
6,047 acres; term, ten years; upset annual rental, 2d. per
acre.

G. W. WILLIAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run, Taranaki Land District, open for Lease
on Application.

Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 1st August, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small
grazing-run will be open for lease on application on
and after Wednesday, the 30th September, 1896, at the
rental noted below. In case of more than one application
for the same run on the same day, priority of selection will
be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
SECOND-CLASS PASTORAL COUNTRY.

Weighted with £30, value of improvements, which must
be paid with application.

Locality and Description of Run.—This run is situate on
the Patea River, about thirteen miles from the Town of
Patea. Access can be obtained by the river, and by the Ball
Road from Alton, which is formed for dray-traffic to within
about a mile of the run. The land comprises rough grazing-
country—all forest, with the exception of 20 acres in grass.
The soil is of fair quality.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Land Court Notices.

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

IN THE VALIDATION COURT
AT HASTINGS.

In the matter of "The Native Land (Validation of Titles)
Act, 1893"; and in the matter of the block or parcel of land
known as Mangaorapa.

1. GEORGE HENRY MELBOURNE WHITE, of Po-
   rangahau, in the Provincial District of Hawke's
   Bay and Colony of New Zealand, storekeeper, and Fanny
   White, of Porangahau, in the provincial district and colony
   aforesaid, widow of the late John White, of Porangahau
   aforesaid, sheep-farmer, desire to appear before the Valida-
   tion Court at Hastings, on Monday, the 14th day of Septem-
   ber, 1896, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and to
   ask that the undivided part or share, parts or shares, estate
   and interest of Wi Matua, of Porangahau aforesaid,
   aboriginal native, in the parcel or block of land, situate in
   the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, containing by
   admeasurement 16,761 acres, more or less, and known as the
   Mangaorapa Block, conveyed and assured by the said Wi
   Matua to the said John White by deed of mortgage dated
   the 12th day of September, 1891, and made between the said
   Wi Matua, of the one part, and the said John White of the
   other part, by way of mortgage for the purpose of securing
   the sum of £1,500 and interest thereon, be vested in them,
   the said George Henry Melbourne White and Fanny White,
   as mortgagees. The consideration for the said mortgage was
   the sum of £1,500, paid by the said John White to the said
   Wi Matua on or before the execution of the said deed of
   mortgage.

2. At the time of the said alienation the said Wi Matua was
   entitled to an undivided share in the said Mangaorapa
   Block, but the extent of such interest was not ascertained.
   The title to the said block is a Crown grant, dated the 26th
   day of October, 1871, vesting the said land in Otene Matua,
   Piripi Ngarangikatua, Mere Hora, Atareta Taupe, Rora
   Hokoaka, Te Kau, Haromi Wharepu, Ereatara te Kuri, and
   Tamati Tuhinga. The said Otene Matua, Piripi Ngarangi-
   katua, and Haromi Wharepu having died, one Nepia te Pihi,
   who was sometimes called Nepia Matua, was, by orders of the
   Native Land Court of New Zealand dated respectively the
   4th day of September, 1876, the 8th day of August, 1879, and
   the 4th day of September, 1876, appointed to succeed to the
   shares, estates, and interests of the said Otene Matua, Piripi
   Ngarangikatua, and Haromi Wharepu respectively in the
   said parcel or block of land. The said Nepia te Pihi having
   died since his appointment as such successor, the said Wi
   Matua was, together with one Rora Rupuha, by order of the
   Native Land Court dated the 8th day of November, 1886,
   appointed to succeed to the shares, estates, and interests
   which had been vested in the said Nepia te Pihi, as successor
   to the said Otene Matua, Piripi Ngarangikatua, and Haromi
   Wharepu respectively, of and in the said parcel or block of
   land.

3. The estate or interest in the land which the applicant
   seek to obtain through the aid of the Court is a mortgag
   ever the undivided share, estate, and interest of the said W
   Matua therein for the purpose of securing repayment of
   the said sum of £1,500, together with interest, as provided
   by said deed of mortgage.

4. The said Wi Matua became invested with his title to the
   said undivided share and interest in the said land by virtue
   of the above-mentioned succession orders; the said John
   White became invested with such title as he held by virtue
   of the above-mentioned deed of mortgage; and the said
   George Henry Melbourne White and Fanny White became
   invested with the title which they now hold by virtue of the
   will of the said John White, dated the 9th day of July, 1884,
   and codicil thereto dated the 4th day of March, 1886, and
   by probate of the said will and codicil, granted by the
   Supreme Court of New Zealand at Napier on the 9th day of
   July, 1894.

5. The applicants name the offices of Messrs. Moorhouse
   and Hadfield, solicitors, in Wellington, as the place where
   notices, orders, and other documents may be served upon the
   applicants by leaving the same at such place for them.

6. The applicants name the said Wi Matua as the person
   upon whom the applicants require that a copy of this applica-
   tion shall be served.

Dated this 28th day of July, 1896.
CARLILE AND McLEAN,
Solicitors, Napier
(Agents for George Henry Melbourne White
and Fanny White, the applicants).

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