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Otago Witness, Issue 489, 13 April 1861, Page 4

Notice to Members of the Church <>f England. THE BISHOP of CHRISTCHURCH, during his Visitation of the Northern part of this Province, will PREACH at the following Places and Times :—: — DUNEDIN, Sundat, April 14. Morning Service at 11. The Holy Communion will be administered. Afternoon Service at Half-past 3, when a Confirmation will be held. The Offertory, both morning and afternoon, will be given to the Melanesian Mission. WAIKOUAITI, Wednesday, April 17. Service at 3, p.m., when the Burial Ground will be Consecrated. OAMARU, Sundat, April 21. Service at 11, a.m., when the Holy Communion will be administered. On the previous Saturday, April 20, there will be a CHURCH MEETING at Oamaru, at 12 o'clock. Otago Property Investment Company. YEARLY BALANCE. QUARTERLY MEETING. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. THE Members are respectfully requested to be clear upon the Books on the Evening of TUESDAY, 23rd April 1861, as the Yearly Balance will be struck that night. The QUARTERLY MEETING for the Sale of Cash will take place on TUESDAY, 7ih May 1861, at the same hour and place. The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held immediately after the business of the Quarterly Meeting is finished. JOHN LOGAN, Secretary. FOR SALE, FIFTY Imported 4-tooth pure MERINO HAMS. James Hassell & Co., Oamaru. WHEAT— OATS— BARLEY. THE Undersigned are CASH BUYERS of Wheat, Oats, and Barley for export. DALGETY, RATTRAY, & CO., Walker-street. TO BE SOLD CHEAP, OR TO LET FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. A; QUARTER-ACRE SECTION, with a sub- '_. stantially built and well finished 4-rooraed HOUSE thereon. Wood and Water on the Section. Apply to THOMAS CULLING, Princes-street. PETER JULIUS MARX TAKES this means of acquainting his friends and the public generally, that he has REMOVED from his house in RATTEAY-STREET to his NEW and COMMODIOUS PREMISES in WALKEIt-STREET, where he trusts that by attention to the wants and comfort of .his guests, he will not only retain the custom of his old friends, but will be enabled from his increased accommodation to gain many new ones. P. J. M. will give an Opening Bali, on WEDNESDAY Next. Single Ticketß, 7s. 6d.; Double Tickets, 10s. Ball to commence at half-past 8, p.m. To Let. A LARGE and Convenient HOUSE, situate in liussKiii.-STREET, with WOOD and WATER adjoining. Apply to John Taylor, Proudfbot's Paddock, ilaclaggan-street. [advbrtisjbmekt.] New Zealand Court of Claims, Auckland, 2nd July, 1860. SIR, — I beg leave to address your Excellency on the subject of a statement which has been made to me, by Mr. John Jones, of Otago, respecting his Land Claims in that Province. Mr. Jones states that, on the occasion of one of your Excellency's visits to Otago, he had an interview with you relative to a Grant which had been ordered by Governor Fitzroy to be issued in his favour for 8,560 acres, upon one of the intended awards made by that Governor, that you then said that it was not in your power to permit this Grant to be issued, inasmuch as the questions relating to Governor Ktzroy's extended awards generally had been referred for the decision of the Imperial Government, and. that all you could do was to give at once a maximum Grant of £,560 acres ; but, that you promised that in the event of other land claimants, who had obtained extended awards, being confirmed in their Grants for quantities exceeding 2,560 acres, you would then place Mr. Jones in the same position as these others, by the i_sue of Grants for the residue between 2,560 and 8,560 acres. The Grant for 8,560 Acres, referred to by Mr. Jones, is now before me, prepared on the 15th day of September, 1846, under the signature of Mr. Ligar, then Surveyor-General, for submisaion to your Excellency, and I find that when application was made for it by Mr. Jones, the Colonial Secretary raiuuted as follows :—: — " The writer is informed in reply that a deed to the extent referred to (8,560 acres), cannot now be issued, as his Excellency does not feel justified in making a Grant to any extent beyond the original masimum award of the Commiasioner, vi 2., 2,560 acres. By command, A. Sinclair, Dec, 19, 1846." The Grant for 2,560 acres was subsequently issued to Mr. Jones, but there is no record among the papers in his claims of the conversation which Mr. Jones states to have taken place between your Excellency and him at Dunedin. I. am induced, however, to comply with Mr. Jones' request to address you on the subject, because in the contemplation of the " Quieting Titles Ordinance, of 1849," by which yotir Excellency validated all the larger Grants formerly issued by Governor Fitzroy, you may have had and expressed the intention attributed to you in the case of Mr. Jones ; and also because Mr. Jones further states- that it was on receiving this promise that he was induced to take out the Grant for 2,560 acres only. Should, therefore, your Excellency deem the subject a proper one for your consideration, after, the lapse of so many years, and should think it right to make any statement from your own recollection of the circumstances, I should be very much obliged if your Excellency would direct the same to be communicated to me, I have the honour to be, &c., (Signed) P. D. BELL, Land Claims Commissioner His Excellency Sir Gkorgk Gret, X.C.8., Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Government House, Cape Town, 28th November 1860. SIR — Having received your letter of the 2nd July last, wherein you addressed me on the subject of a statement which had been made to you by Mr. John Jones, of Otago, respecting his land claims in that Province, I have the honor to acquaint you that Mr. Jones had one or more interviews with me regarding a Land Claim of his for upwards of Eight Thousand (8,000), Acres. When those interviews took place, or precisely what passed at them, I am, after this interval of time, unable to state ; but, I know that my intention was to convey to Mr. Jones that auVI then felt myself legally empowered to do, was to issue to him a maximum Grant for (2,560) Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty Acres, but that in my opinion, his taking this Grant would, in no respect, injure any rights he might have, if upon a different system larger Grants were subsequently made to the land claimants. „ ' Mr. Jones has a peculiar call on me to make this statement, for he always preferred his claims with moderation, and showed a willingness to acquiesce in the decisions of Government, ■which ought not in any way to prejudice any righto he may have. I have the honour to be, Sir, ' t .- > V Your most obedient humble servant* GEORGE GfeE-S F. D. Bell, Esq., Land Claims ' ' , "- ' ' " • Commissioner, Auckland, New Zealand.