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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

orders granted under "The Waste Lands Act, 1858,"
may be exercised:
Provided always that no such land order shall be
so exercised, unless upon the approval of the Super-
intendent of the Province of Auckland, such approval
to be signified by the indorsement of the said Super-
intendent's signature upon the order :
Provided also that no person who shall have se-
lected land in virtue of this regulation shall be
entitled to a Crown Grant thereof, unless he shall
have proved to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands
Commissioner, or of his deputy, that he has resided
on the said land, or on the block of land set apart
for the purposes of "The Bay of Islands Settlement
Act," for a period of twelve months at least, or that
he has resided in the Province of Auckland for a
period of twenty-four months.
15. It shall be lawful to reserve or except all coal
and coal mines under or on land to be selected and
granted under these regulations, and all powers
usually retained by or given to the owners of coal
and coal mines for mining and working the same,
under or on land whereof the surface is the property
or in the occupation of other persons, may be reserved
or given to such person or persons as the Governor
may appoint; and it shall also be lawful to resume
and take any portion of land, selected or granted
under these regulations, which may be required for
surface operations in mining or working such coal or
coal mines, compensation for damage on account of
land taken or resumed, and for injury to crops or
otherwise, to be settled by arbitration in the usual
way.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
eleventh day of January, 1866.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Otago Loan Ordinance,
1861," passed by the Superintendent and Pro-
vincial Council of the Province of Otago, provision
was made for raising a loan of fifty thousand pounds
for the public service of the said Province, and for
liquidation of its public debt.

And whereas by "The Otago Loan Ordinance,
1861-2," provision was made for the appointment by
the Governor of Trustees for receiving such sums as
by the said Ordinance are required to be paid to
them.

And whereas by the said last-mentioned Ordinance
it is further provided that every sum so paid should
be invested on the security of debentures issued by
the General Government, or otherwise, as His Ex-
cellency the Governor and the Superintendent
should direct.

And whereas by "The Otago Loan Ordinance,
1862," provision was made for raising a loan of five
hundred thousand pounds for the public service of
the Province of Otago, and for providing a sinking
fund for the liquidation thereof.

And whereas by the said Ordinance it was pro-
vided that certain sums should be from time to time
paid to two Trustees, to be from time to time ap-
pointed by his Excellency the Governor, for the
purpose of forming a sinking fund as aforesaid.

And whereas by the same Ordinance it was further
provided that every sum so paid should be invested
in the security of debentures issued by the General
Government, or otherwise, as His Excellency the
Governor and the Superintendent should direct.

And whereas Alfred Rowland Chetham Strode, of

Dunedin, and John Jones, of Waikouaiti, have been
duly appointed Trustees under and by virtue of the
powers in the said respective Ordinances in that
behalf contained.

And whereas the said Trustees have received and
now hold for the purposes of the said sinking funds,
by the said respective Ordinances provided for
certain sums as hereinafter mentioned, that is to
say, for the purposes of "The Otago Loan Ordinance,
1861," and "The Otago Loan Ordinance, 1861-2,"
the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds.

And whereas it is expedient that the said sum of
one thousand five hundred pounds should be invested
on the security of debentures issued by the General
Government:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise of the power vested in him by the said
recited Ordinances, doth hereby, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
order and direct that the said sum of one thousand
five hundred pounds shall be invested on the security
of debentures issued by the General Government.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
eleventh day of January, 1866.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Native Re-
serves Amendment Act, 1862," it is amongst other
things provided, that where under the provisions of
"The Native Reserves Act, 1856," the assent of
the aboriginal inhabitants is required to bringing
land under the operation of the said "Native Re-
serves Act, 1856," the Governor may, by Order in
Council, declare such assent to have been ascertained
and thereupon the title of the aboriginal inhabitants
in the land to which the same shall relate shall be
deemed to be extinguished, and the land shall from
the date of such Order in Council vest in Her
Majesty for the purposes and subject to the pro-
visions of the said "Native Reserves Act, 1856," as
altered by the recited Act, and that as effectually
as if the same had been ceded and conveyed by such
aboriginal inhabitants to Her Majesty:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, doth hereby declare that the assent of the
aboriginal inhabitants to the bringing the pieces of
land described in Schedules A. B. C. hereunder
written under the operation of "The Native Reserves
Act, 1856," has been ascertained.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE A.

All that piece of land, containing by admeasure-
ment seventeen (17) acres, more or less, situated on
the Kaeo River, at Whangaroa, in the county of
Mongonui, bounded towards the northward by a line
bearing E. 29° 0' S. 1040 links; towards the eastward
by a line bearing S. 34°20' W. 1836 links; towards
the southward by a line bearing W. 1°15' N. 634
links; and towards the westward partly by a line
bearing N. 21° 0' E. about 330 links; and partly by
the Kaeo River, and numbered 83 N.

SCHEDULE В.

All that piece of land in the Province of Auckland
containing by admeasurement fifty (50) acres, more
or less, situate on the Kaeo River, at Whangaroa, in