A PPLICATION TO THE VALIDATION COURT UNDER "THE NATIVE. A. LAND (VALIDATION OF TITLES) ACT, 1893." IN THE VALIDATION COURT, HOLDEN AT AUCKLAND. In the matter of " The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893," and in the matter of a block of land situated in the District of Whitianga, in the Provincial District of Auckland, and known by tho name of Whakarupo. A. RHODA HAMPTON DAVIS, formerly of Mercury Bay, but now of Onehunga, in the said Provincial District, spinster, applies under the above mentioned Act for the validation of the interests hereinafter mentioned in the above mentioned Whakarupo Block. u. The applicant desires to have herself found cntitlod to relief in respect to the said Whakarupe Block and desires to aupcar before the Validation Court at Auckland on MONDAY, the 13th day of May, 1895, at tho hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon, or at the first' sitting of the Court hereafser. o. .The nature of tho transaction proposed for validation is as follows :— Memorandum of transfer bearing date the Ist day of March, 1880, and made between Rcupena Tahura, Rahcra Tanui, Erana te Oncrcre, Wircmu tc Huia, Krctara Tinirau, ' Repiu Tokala, Waata Tiaia, Henare Whakarongahau, Raimatc Hcmoata, and Hapimana i Hikihiki of the one part, and the applicant of the other part. The consideration agreed upon between the said parties was the sum of £60. d. The land which was intended to be alienated is the whole of tho said Whakarupe Block. The area of such block is twenty-seven acres and one rood. The title thereto of the Maori alienors at the time of the said alienation was Certificate of Title under " The Native Land Court Act, 1880," bearing date |Jie 12th day of March, 1886. K. The estate or interest which the applicant seeks to obtain iu the said hind by the aid of the Court is an estate of freehold of the whole Block. K. The manner in which the Applicant came to be invested with the title she now holds to the said Block is as follows ;— The memorandum of transfer above specified, (;. 