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Enclosure 2 in No. 12. Copt of List of Half-Castes residing at the Neck, Stewart Island, in June, 1864, as furnished by Mr. Commissioner Clarke, under date 3rd January, 1865. No. Names in Mr. Clarke's List. Names ascertained in 1868, and subsequently. 1 Ripeka Cooper, female ... ... ... Rebecca Cooper. 2 Ruita Cooper, female ... ... ... Louisa Cooper. 3 Robert Cooper, male ... ... ... Robert Cooper.. 4 George Cooper, male ... ... ... George Cooper. 5 Jane, daughter of Tare "Waimeha, female ... Jane Forster. 6 Nancy Jane, female ... ... ... Could not be traced. 7 Ruita, daughter, female ... ... „ 8 Piriti, female ... ... ... Phillis Cooper. 9 Makarita Pakawhatu, female ... ... Margaret Chaseland. 10 Maraea, daughter ... ... ... Maria Chaseland. 11 Te Hopu, son, male ... ■ ... ... John Chaseland. 12 Kararaina, daughter, female ... ... Caroline Chaseland. 13 Child, son, male ... ... ... William Henry Chaseland. 14 Nga Maku (married a Pakeha), female ... Johanna Antoine Groombs, married to Emanuel Groombs. 15 John Manuel, son, male ... ... John Groombs. 16 Pinare, son, male ... ... ... Emanuel Groombs. 17 Child, daughter, female ... ... Hesta Groombs. 18 Karara ... ... ... ... Barney Lovet. 19 James, adopted son of Miria Rapako ... James Cooper. 20 Elizabeth, adopted daughter of Miria Rapako ... Elizabeth Davis. 21 George Owen, son of John Owen, male ... George Owen. 22 Tare, female ... ... ... Sally Owen. 23 Kamahi, son of Tare, male ... ... Robert Owen (called Kamahi in the list of 1868.) 24 Susan Lowry ... ... ... Susan Lowry. 25 Matilda, daughter, female ... ... Matilda Lowry. 26 Elizabeth, daughter, female ... ... Elizabeth Lowry. 27 Child, daughter, female ... ... Caroline Lowry. 28 Ihaka, son of James Parapa ... ... No person answering to the name of Ihaka or Isaac could be traced. Jane Parapa or Smith had issue two sons, named David and Thomas, by a European named McKenzie, and Thomas is identical with the person to whom Section 11 at the Neck has been allotted by Mr. Pearson. No. 13. The Hon. the Seceetaby for Crown Lands to Mr. A. Mackat. Office of the Court of Land Claims, "Wellington, Sib,— 2nd March, 1875. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th ultimo, relative to the half-caste claims under " The Stewart Island Grants Act, 1873." I find that there is still a considerable difference between your list now furnished and that sent by Mr. Pearson in 1871, as to the number of claimants under the Act. In Mr. Pearson's the names of 125 claimants are given, to which, if the 15 new claimants named in your list be added, the total would then be 140. But from this total the names of Groombs, Hunter, and Sherburd (Europeans), and Ihaia Whaitiri and Hoani Tunarere (Maoris), require to be deducted, leaving 135 half-caste, or so-called half-caste, claimants. The number returned by you is 108; the difference, therefore, is 27. I have to request that you will be good enough to inform me of the grounds upon which you have excluded the names of the twenty-seven persons given in the enclosed list from your return of those entitled under the Act above quoted. I have, Ac, H. A. Atkinson, A. Mackay, Esq., Nelson. Land Claims Commissioner. Enclosure in No. 13. Schedule of Persons in Mr. Pearson's List of 1871 not in Mr. Mackay's alphabetical List. * Bates, William * Moss, Betty * Bates, James * Moss, Polly (Mrs. J. Davis) Bates, Marianne * Moss, Joe * Cameron, Sarah Ann Parker, John * Davis, William Russell, Betsy * Davis, Sarah * Sterling, John Davis, Joseph Surman, James Davis, James * Whitelock, Maria Dallas, Jack Whitelock, Sarah (Paiwhenua) * Fisher, W. Whitelock, Rachel (Paiwhenua) Gregory, Elizabeth * Whitelock, James Groombn, Susanna * Wievil, James * Goodwilly, Caroline * Williams, Ann. * Harnett, John William *In list of 1868. Why excluded without comment ?