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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 19, 18 January 1873, Page 3

To Hui Excellency Si* G«obob Bowkn, K.C.B. Ac., Governor of New Zealand, &c., and to the Hoxobabl* The members of his Executive. The Humble Petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the Poverty Bay district in the province of Auckland, and Colony of New Zealand, Shewkth :— 1 That your Petitioners have on two occasions suffered grievous actual and incidental losses owing to native outbreaks in this district, from which losses the greater number of your Petitioners are still suffering. 2 That the above-named disturbances were not directly or indirectly caused by any action of your Petitioners. 3. That your Petitioners have rendered every assistance to the Government in the prosecution of the late wars in this district by fighting and otherwise, and have borne an equal share of hard service with the Government natives in assisting to quell the said disturbances. 4. That whereas it has been authoritatively made public by the Government that a block of land is about to bo bestowed on two of the East Coast tribes of loyal natives respectively, who were engaged on the service of the Government in assisting to quell the said disturbances, and that assistance has already been given to certain settlers residing on the West Coast of this Island. Your Petitioners humbly and respectfully submit to your Excellency and your advisers that they, your Petitioners, are also justly entitled to some consideration for the losses they have sustained. 5. That your Petitioners humbly pray that the Government will take this matter into serious consideration and award to your Petitioners that to which they submit they are justly entitled. 6. Your Petitioners have taken hasty action in this matter so that their views may be i n possession of the Government before any final action is taken with respect to the Patutahi Block of land, situated in this district. 7- Your Petitioners would point out that after satisfying the awards to the above-named two tribes of East Coast natives, a sufficient amount of land portion of the said block, will remain in the hands of the Government to compensate your Petitioners for their losses, and reward them for their loyal services. 8. That a duly verified list forwarded herewith will shew the amount of loss each of your Petitioners has personally suffered by reason aforesaid. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Excellency and your advisers will grant their prayer as set forth in the abovewritten Petition. And your Petitioners will ever pray, &C.

PRELIMINARY NOTICE. 4 BOUT 1,000 sheep will be offered for sale -*•*- bv Public Auction towards the end of this month, at Waerenga-a-hika. These will comprise sheep of all classes, and lots will be made to suit purchasers. Particulars in a future advertisement. J. B. PQYNTER. Waerenga-a-hika. January 16, 1873.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION. By Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland. ■£JNDER and in pursuance of the powers vested in the Superintendent by “ The Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1867,” I hereby notify, for public information, that all those pieces or parcels of land enumerated in the Schedule hereunder will be offered for sale, by Public Auction, at the Court-house, Gisborne, by Hugh Hart Lusk, Esquire, Provincial Secretary, on Wednesday the twenty-sixth day of February, 1873, as Town and Suburban Land, at the hour of twelve o’clock, noon. Given under my hand at Auckland thia fourth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. THOMAS B. GILLIES, Superintendent.