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the claims to the very lands originally selected at Waitara, and in lieu of which very land the award was given ? I have, &c, Fbed. A. Caeeington, Attorney and Agent for E. J. Sartoris, and for the trustees of the estate of the late Edwin Henry Downe. The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington. P.S.—I beg leave to observe, for the information of the Government, that in December last the Provincial Government of Taranaki leased one acre of Downe's land (being part of that valued by the Commissioner), for twenty-one years, at £36 a year. Also, the Provincial Government leased for twenty-one years another acre of Downe's land, being part of that valued by the Commissioner, in January last, for £107 10s. per annum. Peed. A. Caeeington, Superintendent of Taranaki. The Seceetaet for Cbown Lands to His Honor P. A. Cabbington. Sic, — General Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 24th February, 1875. Bef erring to your letter of the 17th instant, addressed to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, and to previous correspondence relative to Sartoris and Downe's Waitara land, and the award made by Mr. Commissioner Hamilton, I have the honor to inform you that, at the date of your last letter reaching me, the land orders issued in accordance with the said award had been executed by His Excellency the Governor, and I now enclose them to you herewith. H. A. Atkinson, His Honor P. A. Carrington, Esq., Secretary for Crown Lands. Agent £or E. J. Sartoris and E. H. Downe, New Plymouth. Nobmanbt, Governor. In exercise of the powers in me vested by " The Taranaki New Zealand Company's Land Claims Act, 1872," I hereby authorize Frederick Alonzo Carrington (as attorney and agent of Gerald Surman, Charles William Matthews, and William Egerton Hubbard, trustees of the estate of Edwin Henry Downe), of New Plymouth, in the Province of Taranaki, to purchase to the amount of nine thousand two hundred and seventy-five pounds (£9,275) any of the lands* of the Crown, in the Province of Taranaki, open for sale or selection, without payment in cash therefor, subject however to the provisions in the said Act contained. Dated the nineteenth day of Pebruary, 1875. Pbesented for selection or purchase, 15th March, 1875. No land available for purpose. C. D. Whitcombe, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Nobmanbt, Governor. In exercise of the powers in me vested by " The Taranaki New Zealand Company's Land Claims Act, 1872," I hereby authorize Frederick Alonzo Carrington (as Attorney and agent of Edward John Sartoris), of New Plymouth, in the Province of Taranaki, to purchase to the amount of three thousand one hundred and twenty-five pounds (£3,125) any of the lands* of the Crown, in the Province of Taranaki, open for sale or selection, without payment in cash therefor, subject however to the provisions in the said Act contained. Dated the nineteenth day of February, 1875. Pbesented for selection or purchase, 15th March, 1875. No land available for purpose. C. D. Whitcombe, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Mr. Bobeeb to His Honor F. A. Cabbington. Deae Me. Caeeington,— Wellington, June, 1876. With reference to our land claims, which still remain unsatisfied, I consulted, (just before I left England), my brother-in-law, William Freshfield, solicitor to the Bank of England, Messrs. Derrett and Co., my own solicitor, and Gerald Surman, one of my trustees, all of them clever lawyers, and they assured me that we are distinctly entitled to interest at colonial rate on the amount of our award, £9,275, from the 15th March, 1875, on which date the Government acknowledged their inability to satisfy our land order, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr. C. D. Whitcombe, having indorsed it with the words, " No land available for purpose." * Attention is directed to the provisions of the sixth section of " The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1873," and of the fifth section of " The Taranaki Waste Lands Act, 1874," and of the sixth section of " The (Taranaki) New Zealand Company's Land Claims Act, 1872," whereby this land order is unavailable in the purchase either of lands acquired under the Immigration and Public Works Acts, or of Confiscated Lands.