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TARANAKI. Crown Lands Office, New Plymouth, 11th August, 1890. Referring to your telegram of to-day requesting that all claims under the above-named Act be sent in at once, I have not any of which the investigation has been completed since I sent in the last batch, on the 10th July. There are some here awaiting documentary evidence from the claimants, who are very tardy in sending it in. Some of the old discharged soldiers who have received military settlers' grants, but nothing as old soldiers, think it is very hard that they cannot receive for both; but it is clear from subsection (2) of section 10 that they cannot do so. Then, there are one or two cases where men have been awarded land and have forfeited it by leaving the district, and so have really never held any land. A case in point is one Joseph Swan, a discharged soldier of the 65th Regiment, who was allotted land at Matakohe, Kaipara, but, having no means to work it, he went away, and about three years afterwards wrote for his grant, and was told he had forfeited it because he did not settle on it. I have rejected his claim, but mention it in case his may be considered an exceptional one. Sidney Weetman, The Cinder-Secretary, Crown Lands, Wellington. Commissioner, Crown Lands.

Claims recommended. Entitled to I • Entitled to Name. Regimentor Corps, and Rank. Name, Regiment or Corps, and Rank. o/lfand. £ Acres. ! £ Acres. Armitage, K. W. H. H., Taranaki Volunteers, 30 60 Howes, William, Royal Artillery, gunner .. 30 60 private • Hutchison, David, Defence Force, lieutenant 100 200 Baker, H. R., 55th Regiment, private ..30 60 I Illston, A. T., Royal Artillery, gunner ..30 60 Barriball, Charles, Taranaki Rifles, sergeant 40 80 Kecfe, Connor, 70th Regiment, private .. 30 60 Barriball, S. H., Taranaki Volunteers, ser- 40 80 King, Abner, Taranaki Mounted Rifles, ser- 40 80 geant geant Cattley, H. R., Taranaki Volunteers, private 30 60 King, Newton, Taranaki Rifles, corporal .. 30 60 Chapman, F. M., Waipawa Cavalry, lieu- 100 200 Ladd, Alfred, 18th Regiment, colour-sergeant 40 80 tenant Lifting, E. 8., No. 1 Taranaki Rifles, private 30 60 Cock, R., Taranaki Rifles, colour sergeant .. 40 80 Linn, James, Royal Artillery, gunner .. 30 60 Collins, Cliarles, Royal Engineers, sapper .. 30 60 Mellanus, M., Taranaki Rifles, corporal .. 40 80 Collins, Jobn, 57tii Regiment, private .. 30 60 McShand, T., 70th Regiment, private .. 30 60 Connolly, William, 12th Regiment, sergeant 40 80 Snooks, James, 65th Regiment, private .. 30 60 Cornwall, Robert, 05th Regiment, private .. 30 60 Tocker, William, Featherston Rifles, private 30 60 Hay, John, Victorian Navy, Ist class petty 40 80 Webber, William, Taranaki Rifles, corporal 30 60 odieer Wilson, Henry, H.M.S. "Hastings," able 30 60 Hepburn, James, 65th Regiment, private .. 30 60 seaman Howard, Samuel, 58th Regiment, private .. 30 60 Wray, Alfred, Royal Navy, seaman ..30 60 Howartb, John, 68th Regiment, private .. 30 60 I Claims rejected. Amois, William, Taranaki Militia, private. Hurst, C. E., 12th Regiment, lieutenant. Atkins, William, Waitotara Volunteers, private. Jolt, Samson T„ Taranaki Bushrangers and Napier Militia, Bairstow, Edmund, 18th Regiment, private. private. Bashford, T. H., 3rd Waikato Militia, private. Jolt, Thomas T., Taranaki Volunteers, private. Bishop, Robert, 21st Hussars, sergeant-major. Ludlam, George, Tlie Veterans, private. Boyhan, Bernard, 65tb Regiment, private. McDevitt, Charles, 18th Regiment, sergeant. Cameron, Daniel, Taranaki Militia, private. McKansay, James, 65th Regiment, private. Carpenter, John, 99th Regiment, corporal. MeKeever, William, 2nd Waikato Militia. Connell, James, 18th Regiment, private. Mulligan, Owen (by his widow, Ann White), 65th RegiDunlop, David, 43rd Regiment, private. ment, private. Elliot, Thomas, Militia and Mounted Volunteers, private. Pigott, Joseph, 15th Regiment, sergeant. England, W. L., 2nd Waikato Militia, private. Powell, William H., Royal Navy, able seaman. Fitzsimmons, Luke, 18th Regiment, private. Rassman, Charles, Militia and Volunteers, private. Free, William, 58th Regiment, private. Rea, David, Army Service Corps, private. Gilbert, J. J., Militia and Armed Constabulary, sergeant. Rielly, John, Taranaki Rifle Volunteers, colour-sergeant. Goodwin, J. (by his son, W. J. Goodwin), 65th Regiment, Stapp, Charles, 58th Regiment, non-commissioned officer. private. Swan, Joseph, 65th Regiment, private. Grace, Patrick, 14th Regiment, private. Tunbridge, Charles, 43rd Regiment, private. Harding, James, 65th Regiment, private. Watts, W. L., Taranaki Militia, private. Harris, Walter, 65th Regiment, private. Wheeler, William, 57th Regiment, private. Henry, Patrick, 40th Regiment, private. Williams, William, 58th Regiment, private.

HAWKE'S BAY. Claims recommended. Entitled to En s'ci-i e f '° Name, Eegiment or Corps, and Hank. Name ' lte 6in>e"t or Corps, and Hank. o ;. £ Acres. ■*■' Acres. Bond, William, Goth Regiment, private .. HO 60 ■ Carter, Owen, 70th Regiment, private ..30 60 Booth William, 66th Regiment, private .. 80 60 j Catton, Charles, 70th Regiment, pnvn.t .. 30 60 Boyd Thoirms, 70th Regiment, private .. 30 60 Chicken, John, Napier Rifles, captain ..30 CO Brathwaite R. A. W., Hawke's Bay Yeo- 30 60 Clareburt, John, SStli Regiment, private ..30 60 manry Cavalry, lieutenant j Olibborn, John 8., Colonial Defence Force, 25 50 Broadfielcl, Thomas, 70th Regiment, private 30 60 ! private Brown, Charles, 65th Regiment, private .. 30 60 j Couper, William, Wairoa (H. 8.) Volunteers, 30 60 Callaghan, Dennis, DOtli and 65th Regiments, 30 60 ; private private ■ Cronin, Denis, 70th Regiment, private .. 30 60 Campbell, A. 8., F Battery, N.Z. Artillery, 30 60 ! Davis, John, Wairoa (H. 8.) Volunteers, 30 60 gunner private Carey Patrick J., 70th Regiment, private .. 30 60 Douglas, Archibald, N.Z. Volunteers, private 30 60 Caruell, Samuel, Napier Volunteer Artillery, 30 60 Down, Thomas, Wairoa (H. 8.) Volunteers, 30 60 lieutenant private