(3.) Wellington Claims.

The claims from persons now residing in Wellington number altogether 61. Like the preceding, these claimants or their parents fled South from the Waikato invasion, united themselves with Rauparaha, and conquered for themselves territory in the neighbourhood of Wellington, on portions of which they still reside, the greater part of it having been alienated by them to the Crown. None of this class of claimants have ever returned to re-occupy any portion of this block, and their claims are therefore disallowed.