NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XV. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1868. No. 33

Native Lands Court.

Te Paretao Claim.

WHEREAS by the eighty-third section of "The Native Lands Act, 1865," after reciting that at various times agreements had been or might be thereafter made between the owners of Native land or other persons interested therein on the one part, and officers duly authorized to enter into the same on the other part, for the cession of Native land to Her Majesty it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor to refer any such agreement to the Native Lands Court, and the Court shall investigate the title to and the interests in such land in the manner prescribed in the said Act, and that the Court shall make such orders either for the completion of the agreement upon such terms and conditions as the Court shall think fit, or for the apportionment of the land between the parties interested therein in such manner as the Court shall think equitable: provided that all Native lands in respect to which any such agreement shall be outstanding and incomplete at the time of the passing of the said Act should, unless the Governor should otherwise direct be excluded from the operation of the said Act until the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six: And whereas by "The Native Lands Act 1867," it is enacted that all Native land referred to in section eighty-three of "The Native Lands Act 1865" shall unless the Governor shall otherwise direct from time to time in respect of any such land, be excluded from the operation of "The Native Lands Act 1865" and of "The Native Lands Act 1867" until the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight provided that every such agreement between the owners of any such land or other persons interested therein on the one part and officers duly authorised to enter into the same on behalf of Her Majesty on the other part may be referred by the Governor to the Court and the Court shall thereupon investigate the title to and the interests in such land in the manner prescribed in "The Native Lands Act 1865" and "The Native Lands Act 1867" and shall make such orders as it is by the said eighty-third section of "The Native Lands Act" empowered to make And whereas on or about the fifth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four a certain agreement or deed of cession was made between Wereta te Waha and others as the owners or persons interested in the parcel of Native land (called Te Paretao) particularly described in the Schedule hereto on the one part and Isaac Earl Featherston an officer duly authorised to enter into the same on the other part for the cession of the said parcel of native land to Her Majesty And whereas a claim to the ownership of or to some interest in the said parcel of land has been set up by Parakaia Te Pouepa.

And whereas the Governor by a warrant under his hand dated the seventh day of October one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight did refer to the Native Lands Court the claim named in the Schedule hereunto attached being the aforesaid