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owing to the proceedings taken by the Council with regard to the declaration of Hundreds, the offer to purchase the said station was withdrawn. Tour petitioner therefore humbly prays that your Excellency will not sanction the recommendation of the Provincial Council of Otago to declare a Hundred on your petitioner's station. And your petitioner will ever pray, &c. 13th July, 1869. W. H. S. Robebts.

No. 9. PETITION OF SETTLERS AT TAPANUI, OTAGO. To the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives, Petition of Forty-nine Settlers at Tapanui, Otago, Sheweth, — We, the undersigned memorialists residing in Tapanui, regret to learn that the Hundred petitioned for has been recommended by the Provincial Government to be declared on the runs of Messrs. Roberts and McKellar only, instead of the four runs belonging to Messrs. Roberts, McKellar, Logan, and McKenzie. We would therefore request that the Hundred of twenty thousand acres, as' agreed to, be declared on the above-mentioned four runs, at a point where they all join, within two miles and a half of the township of Tapanui. The last-mentioned run, Captain McKenzie's, is most adapted for agricultural purposes, and the most likely to be bought up, and would be of great advantage to your memorialists. Trusting that you will take our request into your favourable consideration, We will, as in duty bound, ever pray, &c. [Here follow forty-nine signatures.]