Whereas by a Crown grant dated the eighth day of July, one Preamble.thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, the parcel of land (herein-after called "the said land"), known as Orakei, and situated in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing six hundred and eighty-nine acres or thereabouts, was granted to Apihai te Kawau, an aboriginal native, to hold the same in trust for himself and certain other aboriginal natives therein named: And whereas some of the beneficiaries under the said grant have died, and orders have from time to time been made by the Native Land Court declaring certain Natives to be entitled to succeed to the interests of such deceased beneficiaries: And whereas by an order made the eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, Rere Arama, Te Hira Pateoro, Te Kihirini Reweti, and Paora Rewati have been declared to be the persons entitled to succeed to the interest of Te Tahuri Arama, deceased, the said Tahuri Arama being one of three persons who by a previous order of the said Court had been declared entitled to succeed to the interest in the said land of Arama Karaka te Matuku, deceased, who was named in the said grant as a beneficiary under the said trust: And whereas by another order made the eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, the said Rere Arama, Te Hira Pateoro, Te Kihirini Reweti, and Paora Reweti have been declared to be the persons entitled to succeed to the interest of Totara Arama, deceased, the said Totara Arama being another of the said three persons declared entitled to succeed to the interest in the said land of the said Arama Karaka te Matuku, deceased, as aforesaid: And whereas by another order made the twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, Paora Tuhaere, since deceased, was declared to be the person entitled to succeed to the interest in the said land of Paramena Nganahi, one of the persons named in the said grant as a bene-page 2ficiary under the said trust: And whereas it has been alleged that the said Te Hira Pateoro, Te Kihirini Reweti, Paora Reweti, and Paora Tuhaere were not, nor were any of them, entitled, according to Native custom, to succeed to the interests of either of the said deceased beneficiaries hereinbefore mentioned; and that the said Rere Arama was, at the time of the making of the several orders aforesaid, an infant under the age of twenty-one years and unable to apply for a rehearing in respect thereof; and that by reason of the said orders she has been deprived of interests in the said land to which she would have been entitled according to Native custom: