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more than six months, to be prescribed by the Compensation Court in each case, and due notice of such period for preferring claims, shall be given by direction of the Court by advertisement in public newspapers or otherwise by public notice in the Maori and English language.

And whereas by an order in Council made by His Excellency the Governor in Council at Wellington, on the 17th day of January, 1866, it was ordered that from the date thereof, the district, the boundaries whereof are defined in the schedule hereto, should be a district within the provisions of the said "New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and should be designated by the name of the Bay of Plenty District, and the lands within the said District were thereby reserved and taken for the purpose of settlements, and it was declared that all such lands were required for the purposes of the said last mentioned Act, and were subject to the provisions thereof from the date of the said Order in Council now in recital. Now by the direction of the Compensation Court it is hereby notified that the period for preferring claims to compensation on account of the taking as aforesaid of the said block of land has been prescribed by the Court to be six months from the said 17th day of January.

Dated at Auckland this fifteenth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and sixty six.

A. J. Dicker,
Chief Clerk,
Compensation Court.

SCHEDULE.

BAY OF PLENTY DISTRICT.

All that land bounded by a line commencing at the mouth of the Waitahanui River, Bay of Plenty, and running due south to the Tarawera River, thence by a straight line to the summit of Putauaki (Mount Edgecombe), thence by a straight line in an easterly direction to the confluence of the rivers Tauwhare and Ohiwa thence by a line running due east for twenty-five miles, thence by a line to the mouth of the Aparapara River, in the Bay of Plenty.

PANUITANGA.

Ko te mea i te Ture ("New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863,") i te 7 o nga rangi i kiia kia one, kia te kauma waru nga marama he tukunga mai mo nga pukapuka whakau whenua nga tangata e pa taua whenua kua riro i te Kawanatanga te tango. Na, i te mahinga houtanga o taua Ture, i te tau 1865, kua whakanoatia aua takiwa a kua kiia ko te takiwa hei tukunga mai mo nga pukapuka pera ki ka kua e hoki iho i te toru marama, kia kaua e neke ake i te marama ma te Kooti e whakarite te takiwa hei tukunga mai mo aua pukapuka.

Na, i panui ki nga Nupepa, me panui kite reo Pakeha kite reo Maori kia rongo ai te katoa.

Na, i te Runanga o Te Kawanatanga noho a Runanga ki Poneke i te 17 o nga ra o Hanuere, 1866, i kiia ko te Takiwa whena e mau nei eone rohe i te Pukapuka e tapiri nei one waiho hei Takiwa e mahia ai nga tikanga o te Ture nei (New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863,") ko te ra e timata ai, ko tana 17 o Hanuere, 1866, ka huaina tona ingoa ko Te Takiwa o Te Bay of Plenty, ko te rohe e mau nei nga rohe o taua Takiwa i ritea i roto i tana takahanga i rahuitia, i tangohia kia whakanohoia kia te Pakeha, a i kiia hoki ko aua whenua katoa i riro hei mahinga ma nga tikanga o taua Ture, a mana katoa ona tikanga i runga i timata mai i te ra i puta ai taua Ki Runanga kua whakahuatia ake nei.

Na, ko tenei, ka whakaritea nei e te Kooti whakawa whenua te takiwa hei tukunga mai mo nga pukapuka tono utu mo te tangohanga o taua pihi whenua, koia tenei kia marama, ka timata mai i taua ra ano, te 17 o Hanuere, 1866.

I tuhia i te 15 o nga ra o Maehe, 1866.

Na Tiki,
Kia tuhi tuhi.

PUKAPUKA TAPIRI TE TAKIWA O TE BAY OF PLENTY.

Ko taua whenua katoa ka timata te rohe ki te wahapu o te Awa o Waitahanui, ka rere whaka te Tonga kite awa o Tarawera; ka maero atu i reira tae noa ki te tihi o Putauaki; ha rere whaka te Rawhiti ki te putahitanga o Tauwhare o Ohiwa; ka maero atu te raina; i reira e rua te kau ma rima maero; ka rere a te wahapu o te Awa o Aparapara.

NOTICE.

THE undermentioned Goods being over time will be sold by public auction, at the Queen’s Warehouse, Queen-street Wharf, on Thursday, April 12th, 1866, pursuant to clause 89, Customs Regulation Act, unless duty is previously paid.

K 1 case pistols, (1 dozen) 98

Ex Cashmere, Petheridge, from London, warehoused in Magazine, 23rd April, 1862, E. Rich, agent.

K 13 cases brandy 175

Ex Colina, Ipland, from Hamburg, warehoused in W. Grahame’s, 10th June, 1862, by Bucholz and Co.

M 3 hhds. ale 85

Ex Hanover, Rich, from London, warehoused in Hobson’s, transferred to Grahame’s 25th September, 1862, by S. P. James and Son.