Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1869 – No. 35

Page 179

✨ Land Claims and Grants



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Crown Grants.

I, DAVID LEWIS, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of the Ordinance No. 15, Session XI., of the Legislative Council of the Islands of New Zealand, to hear and decide Claims to Land by persons claiming Title thereto, from, through, or under the New Zealand Company, report that the Claims of the undermentioned persons having been duly referred to me for investigation, I do hereby decide that the said persons are respectively entitled to Crown Grants of the land set against their names in the annexed Schedule.

DAVID LEWIS,
Commissioner.

New Zealand Company’s Land Claimants Office,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1869.

SCHEDULE.

No. of Report. No. of Claim. Name of Claimant. Commissioner’s Decision.
1477 1708 Marcus Lowther Entitled to a Crown Grant of Section 255 in the Township of Wanganui, and of Rural Section 138 left bank Wanganui River.
1478 1583 William Millen Entitled to a Crown Grant of the Rural Section 18, Horokiwi Valley, in the Province of Wellington, formerly reported in favour of Abraham Hort. Report 552.
1479 1688 William Fitzherbert Entitled to a Crown Grant of the Sections 394 and 395 on the plan of the City of Wellington.

Lost Land Orders.

I, DAVID LEWIS, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Lost Land Orders Act, 1861," to hear and decide Claims for Crown Grants of Lands for which the original Land Orders have been lost or destroyed, report that the claims of the undermentioned persons having been referred to me by command of the Governor, I do hereby decide that the claimants are entitled to Crown Grants of the Lands set against their names in the annexed Schedule.

DAVID LEWIS,
Lost Land Orders Commissioner.

Dated at Wellington, this 22nd day of July, 1869.

SCHEDULE.

Name of Claimant. Commissioner’s Decision.
Marcus Lowther Entitled to a Crown Grant of the land selected under "Second Series Land Order Special," No. 74, issued by the New Zealand Company to Captain St. George Lowther, on the 13th October, 1840. The selection being 255, in the Township of Wanganui, and Rural Section 138, Left Bank Wanganui River.
William Fitzherbert Entitled to a Crown Grant of the Sections 394 and 395, selected in the City of Wellington, in right of the New Zealand Company’s Preliminary Land Orders 975 and 976.


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🗺️ Crown Grants for New Zealand Company Land Claimants

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
22 July 1869
Crown Grants, Land Claims, New Zealand Company, Wanganui, Wellington
  • Marcus Lowther, Entitled to Crown Grant of Section 255 and Rural Section 138 in Wanganui
  • William Millen, Entitled to Crown Grant of Rural Section 18, Horokiwi Valley
  • William Fitzherbert, Entitled to Crown Grant of Sections 394 and 395 in Wellington

  • David Lewis, Commissioner

🗺️ Lost Land Orders Claims

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
22 July 1869
Lost Land Orders, Crown Grants, New Zealand Company, Wanganui, Wellington
  • Marcus Lowther, Entitled to Crown Grant under Second Series Land Order Special No. 74
  • William Fitzherbert, Entitled to Crown Grant of Sections 394 and 395 in Wellington

  • David Lewis, Lost Land Orders Commissioner