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fetitioner°'s Si slatfon UCII *•**" **' *S° *** ™ ld ac 1-e the right to depasture on your country; but your petitioner respLtfullv„S rt fl' *? * heagnC, ? ltural settlement of the Excellency will notin Ttl ' vT™ deSlrable such Element may be, your private interests!or oSrlvovTZ 6 T* ~ ar % d ° to existing jeopardize an ex sting 7 ° V t0 th ° ° b -J ect desired ) the general prosperity \f the Colony ® § * large rOTenue ' and otherwise resulting to petitxWaLloS 3^d3S i iS , rfsJ i H , J t circu - ta -- P-iously referred to by your & ral purposed and sanction the tt°n * *» thousand pounds, or ' 7 ° W P etltloncr and his copartner gave fifteen and S^JtSff I SSSgS?SS n tl g ° tiated &r *? ? UTChaSe ° f the Ta P a »»i station, petitioner and his SrtinfS^dSft^S^^T 9 f , °/ ag ° Waste Lands Act ' insisted on by the OtaSftSSGoverWeS ST 8 °/ C °T enant before referred to, your petitioner and his copartner 5Z ! S condition on which such lease would be granted Hundreds, and subject only to theffi the kwSc fro 7°f SU ° h J ? nd " dedared into limit of eight thousand acis wortXrA^Zit *° ™ y ° ffer for Sale the Sdtfiffit tnTi *°" » SUcb «* provisions of the lease ; and onX fai h oTtho 2 f J as ~ ent and rent im P oSed ™ d <* the ment of the conditions as so understood in whichl£? rf ° r ~ on the part of the Provincial Governleasc, your petitioner and his coparte IT P etltlone f a » d his copartner concurred, in such ments on the said station, since the date of suchlen l 6X^ eilded m bl " ldm S s > fencin *' and improveconsiderably in the imrchase of sheep and cattle 'UP *° f th ° USand P ° Unds > and ™ ted (» *J*£ *T Petitioner and his offering for sale the eiht thousa'TLes ™ed ™L, ° f the deed of COTenan t by required to fence in tie and untTfcJ «" f^* 8 ° f d / ould h -e bei would have continued to have the right to depasture W+ ft tV T com P leted ?°™ Petitioner proposed, your petitioner and his copartner willnot on'lv£ ?J° /f BanCtlon the Hundred will have to incur yet further heavy exSiSl^W 7 de of such contingent pasturage, but depasturage of the residue Tf the m fencing off such Hundred for the protection of the expenditure will have to be made in tte woof «W \ & *«*?*» that stiU "er building for the efficient working?of £BSr 'J ' shee P- dl P> and sections and have SnTdrSustSg *J? SSft Se'lenurfftl ?T f^ TO t0 granted in pursuance of the provisions oft he wLte Lands Aof' V Under the leases deed of covenant entered into by your Id Z Act^ otwith «tandmg the provisions of the conditions and on the same unttanfi and C ]Z£S **' °^ r lessees under the same capitalists from the neighbouring Colonic; in ?JT P? ktl . oner ls well a «™red, in purposes in the Province of Otago Australia declining to make investments for pastoral your petitioner and his copartner has petitioner and his copartner will lose ctlon f th ° Hundred your Colony. losetne greatei part ot the large capital they have invested in the oylhe'der^ » the ~ of a large to the case of your petitioner with oT°" Hundred '\ circumstances simillr viz., the agricultural the object desired to be obtained, contained in the Otago Waste Lands Act J provisions for the declaration of Hundreds Bunted systefii,TpadTcS7caSd ? bmit i™ the P rinci P le the encouraging the purchase of the Waste Lands „& g P ?n ? 6 settlemeil t of the Province by are declfrel S3!? lt?t d at if purposes, the result must necessarily be (ZticXlv under ,S ,vT f Ti!°f T&t f ° r a S ricul tural his copartner) to do injustice to private E? ™der cases similar to that of your petitioner and . pastoral interest in the province thF %f T** 0 ? ° f Ca P ita1 ' to in i ure th e consequence, to retard L thtcZv deSlred ' t0 enterpriS6 > and ' as a HunSd r -notion to the his copartner. * excellency s approval on the lands under lease to your petitioner and And your petitioner will ever pray, &c. July 13th, 1869. JoHH ' McKemab.

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