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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS it is enacted by the "New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863," that whenever the
Governor in Council shall be satisfied that any Native
Tribe, or section of a Tribe, or any considerable
number thereof, has, since the first day of January,
1863, been engaged in rebellion against Her Majesty's
authority, it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council to declare that the District within which
any land, being the property or in the possession of
such tribe or section or considerable number thereof,
shall be situate, shall be a District within the pro-
visions of the said Act, and the boundaries of such
District in like manner to define and vary as he shall
think fit: And it is further enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to
time, to set apart within any such District eligible
sites for settlements for colonization and the bounda-
ries of such settlements to define and vary, and that
for the purposes of such settlements the Governor
in Council may, from time to time, reserve or take
any land within such District, and such land shall
be deemed to be Crown Land, freed and discharged
from all title, interest, or claim of any person whom
soever, as soon as the Governor in Council shall have
declared that such land is required for the purposes
of this Act, and is subject to the provisions thereof.
And that by an Order in Council made the sixteenth
day of May instant a tract of country, called in the
said Order the Central Waikato Block, was consti-
tuted and declared to be a District within the pro-
visions of the said Act:
And whereas it is expedient to set apart the pieces
of land hereafter defined, parcel of the said Central
Waikato Block, as sites for settlement for colo-
nization:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the
authority for this purpose conferred upon him by the
said recited Act, doth hereby order that the pieces of
land hereafter defined in each of the five schedules
to this order shall be set apart as sites for settlement
for colonization, and for the purposes of such settle-
ment doth hereby reserve and take the said lands,
and doth declare that the said lands are required for
the purposes of the said Act, and are subject to the
provisions thereof, that is to say:
SCHEDULE I.
All that land called the Onewhero Block, bounded
towards the North and East by the Waikato River;
towards the West and South by the boundary of the
lands of the Ngatitipa tribe from near Ihutaroa, on
the Waikato, to the point of the nearest approach of
such boundary to the Waikato River to the south-
ward, and thence in a straight line, running due east,
to the Waikato River, excluding lands granted by
the Crown.
SCHEDULE II.
All that land estimated to contain 19,400 acres,
and known as the Wangape Block, bounded on the
North by a line commencing one mile below the
junction of the Wangape Lake outlet and the Wai-
kato River, and extending on a bearing of south 41°
west (magnetic) to the watershed summit between
the Opuatia River and the Wangape Lake and its
tributaries, and thence following such watershed
summit to the westward; on the West by the road
from Puketotara towards the west coast westward to
a bend of the said road, 86 chains south-west of the
Mangapiko River crossing-place; thence on the East
by the Waikato River and the Wangape outlet; on
the South-East by the Wangape Lake, and by a line
running from the Wangape Lake to the summit of
Puketotara on a bearing of south 79° west (mag-
netic); on the South by a road from Puketotara Hill
running to the west coast as far as a bend of said
road, 86 chains south-west of the Mangapiko crossing-
place; and thence on the West by a line bearing
north 32° west to the Awatikotiko River, and thence
by another line bearing north 27° east (magnetic) to
the summit of the watershed first mentioned.
SCHEDULE III.
All that land known as the Kupa Kupa Block, and
estimated to contain three thousand five hundred
(3,500) acres; bounded on the East by the Waikato
River; on the North by a line running from the
junction of the Wahi Lake outlet and the River
Waikato, west by compass three miles; thence on the
West by a line running south by compass to the
Awa o te Atua River, and thence on the South by
the Awa o te Atua River.
SCHEDULE IV.
Rangiriri Block.
All that land called the Rangoriri Block, bounded
on the North by a line extending from the northern
boundary of the Waikari Lake west (magnetic) to
the Waikato River; on the West by the Waikato
River, on the East by the Waikari Lake, and on the
South by a line extending west (magnetic) from the
southern boundary of the Waikari Lake to the
Waikato River, excepting land granted to the late
Mr. Armitage at Rawhitu.
SCHEDULE V.
Mangawhara Block.
All that land called the Mangawhara Block,
bounded on the North by the Mangawhara River, on
the West by the Waikato River, on the South by a
line from the junction of the Waipa and Horotiu
Rivers running east three miles, and thence on the
East by a line running north to the Mangawhara
River aforesaid, excepting the Church of England
school grant at Hopuhopu.
FRED. THATCHER,
Acting Clerk of Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL
Relating to the Disposal of Land under the " New
Zealand Settlements Act, 1863."
G. GREY, Governor.
At the Government House, at Auckland, the
sixteenth day of May, 1865.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS it is enacted by the "New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863," that on part of the
land subject to the provisions of the said Act the
Governor shall cause to be laid out a sufficient number
of towns and farms around or as near as conveniently
may be to the same, to give full effect to the pro-
visions of the several contracts entered into, or to be
entered into, by or on behalf of the Government of
New Zealand, with certain persons, for the granting
of land to them respectively, in return for military
services, on the terms in and subject to the conditions
of, the said contracts respectively expressed; and the
several persons who shall have been enrolled under
the said contracts respectively shall be entitled to
such Town and Farm sections, in conformity with the
provisions of the said contracts:
Provided always that it shall be lawful for the
Governor, with the consent in writing of any person
entitled under such contracts, to vary the conditions
thereof as regards such persons as the Governor in
Council may think fit: And it is further enacted,
that, after setting apart sufficient land for all the
persons who shall be entitled thereto under the said