Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1874 – No. 4

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✨ Land Claims and Shipping Statistics



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[From the New Zealand Gazette, January 8, 1874.]

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 under-mentioned 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, 24th December, 1873.

SCHEDULE.

No. of Report. No. of Claim. Name of Claimant. Commissioner’s Decision.
1559 1305 Robert Edwards Entitled to a Crown Grant of 80 acres, more or less, part of Section 23, Ohiro District. The legal estate to be antedvested in the Grantee as from the 80th day of October, 1855.
1560 1638 The Right Reverend Bishop of Wellington and others, Trustees of the General Synod of the Church of England in New Zealand, Diocese of Wellington Entitled to a Grant of 100 acres of rural land, in right of a Land Order No. 1081, issued by the New Zealand Company. The selection of the land to be made in accordance with the provisions of Clause 2, “Land Orders and Scrip Act, 1858.”
1561 1626 John Edward Wainhouse Entitled to a Crown Grant of the Rural Section No. 134 on the plan of the Hutt District. The legal estate to be antedvested in the Grantee as from the 15th May, 1856.

COMPARATIVE RETURN of Arrivals and Departures at the Port of Wellington between the Quarters ending December, 31st, 1872 and 1873.

Arrivals From Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons.
1872 Great Britain 3 2183 5 3635
New South Wales 12 4774 22 9151
Tasmania ... ... ... ...
Other Ports 21 12363 14 6620
Coastwise 134 17335 183 24031
Totals 170 36655 224 43437
Departures To Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons.
1872 Great Britain 1 842 3 2021
New South Wales ... ... 12 4774
Tasmania ... ... ... ...
Other Ports 21 6607 15 8042
Coastwise 136 18676 183 24031
Totals 158 26125 213 38868

John Holliday,
Harbour Master.

Wellington, January 9th, 1874.



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🗺️ New Zealand Company Land Claims Decisions

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
24 December 1873
Land Claims, Crown Grants, New Zealand Company, Wellington
  • Robert Edwards, Entitled to Crown Grant of 80 acres
  • The Right Reverend Bishop of Wellington, Entitled to Grant of 100 acres of rural land
  • John Edward Wainhouse, Entitled to Crown Grant of Rural Section No. 134

  • David Lewis, Commissioner

🚂 Comparative Return of Arrivals and Departures at the Port of Wellington

🚂 Transport & Communications
9 January 1874
Shipping Statistics, Arrivals, Departures, Port of Wellington
  • John Holliday, Harbour Master