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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

2. The following allotments are reserved as sites
   for Custom House and Post Office, that is to say:--
   Block 44, sections 10 and 12.

3. The Superintendent shall immediately make the
   reserves authorized in "The Land Orders and Scrip
   Act (Taranaki), 1866," and these shall be recorded
   in the office of the Secretary for Crown Lands.

4. Upon a day appointed under "The Land
   Orders and Scrip Act (Taranaki), 1866," the persons
   entitled to make selections within the Waitara
   Township, subject to the provisions of "The New
   Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and to other limita-
   tions, shall be at liberty to make selections from the
   remaining allotments in manner prescribed in "The
   Land Orders and Scrip Act (Taranaki), 1866."

5. As soon as may be after the day to be named
   as above provided, and from time to time as the
   Colonial Secretary may direct, the remaining allot-
   ments, or such of them as he may direct, shall be
   offered for sale by auction by the Commissioner of
   Crown Lands, in the Land Office, New Plymouth.

6. The time and place of every auction sale shall
   be fixed by the Colonial Secretary, and shall be
   notified in the Government Gazette of the Colony
   thirty days before such sale shall take place.

7. No such notification of any sale of town lands,
   or of any sale of suburban allotments, shall be
   published until a map of the lands to be sold, signed
   by the Chief Surveyor of the Province, and Crown
   Lands Commissioner of the Province, shall have
   been laid open for public inspection in the Land
   Office, New Plymouth.

8. Every auction sale of land shall be held by the
   Commissioner in open Court, as hereinbefore pro-
   vided.

9. The upset price of the town allotments shall be
   as follows:--

For corner lots, fronting the River Waitara,
£30 each.
For other corner lots ,, £20 each.
For intermediate lots ,, £15 each.
For the remaining lots, £10 each.

Suburban Allotments.

10. The Governor shall at once make such
    suburban reserves as he may think fit under the
    powers conferred by "The New Zealand Settlements
    Act Amendment Act, 1866," section V.

11. The remaining lots, or such of them as the
    Colonial Secretary may from time to time direct,
    shall be offered for sale in the same manner as the
    town allotments.

12. The upset price of suburban allotments shall
    be not less than £3, nor more than £5 per acre, as
    the Colonial Secretary may direct.

General provisions.

13. The purchaser of any lot shall, immediately
    upon its being knocked down to him, deposit with
    the Commissioner one-tenth of the purchase money,
    and shall pay the balance within one calendar month
    or forfeit his deposit.

14. In case of doubt as to the highest bidder for
    any lot, or in case the person to whom a lot has been
    knocked down shall fail to make the deposit above
    required, the Commissioner shall at once put up the
    lot again.

15. The Colonial Secretary may order any lot to
    be withdrawn at any time before it is put up.

16. When any lot has been put up and not
    bought, it shall remain open for purchase for cash at
    the upset price at the Land Office, Taranaki, for
    twelve months, unless withdrawn in the meantime
    by the Colonial Secretary.

G. GREY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Christchurch, the
fourth day of February, 1867.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Native Lands Act, 1866,"
it is provided that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time, by procla-
mation, to define districts within which "The Native
Lands Act, 1865," or any of the provisions thereof
shall be suspended: And whereas the block of land
set forth and described in the Schedule hereto has
been, by error, omitted from "The East Coast Land
Titles Investigation Act, 1866": And whereas it is
desirable that the operation of "The Native Lands
Act, 1865," should be suspended with regard to the
said block of land until the next Session of the
General Assembly:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, Knight Com-
mander of the Bath, the Governor, in exercise of the
above recited authority, and by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Colony, do define the district set forth in the
Schedule hereto, and do proclaim that the said
Native Lands Act, 1865, shall be and the same is
hereby suspended within the said district until this
present Order shall be revoked or altered.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE.

All the land in the Province of Auckland the
waters from which flow into the sea at any point on
the coast between Lottin Point, on the North, and
the Mohaka River, on the South, except the land
described in the Schedule to "The East Coast Land
Titles Investigation Act, 1866."

G. GREY, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections Act,
1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, by warrant under his hand, from time
to time to appoint polling places for each Electoral
District, within or without the limits thereof, and to
appoint any one of such places to be the principal
polling place for the district, and all or any of such
polling places at any time to abolish and to appoint
other polling places in lieu thereof.

And whereas by warrant under the hand of the
Governor certain polling places were appointed for
the election of Members of the Provincial Council for
the Province of Hawke's Bay:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:

Now know ye, that I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do
hereby abolish all existing polling places for the
Province of Hawke's Bay, for the election of Members
of the Provincial Council, and do appoint in lieu
thereof:

The Town of Napier---The Resident Magistrate's
Court, Napier.
Napier Country District-Mr. H. S. Tiffen's
Woolshed, at Meeanee; Colonel Whitmore's
Woolshed, at Pekapeka.
Clive-Mr. Ferguson's Store, at Clive.
Havelock-School-house, Havelock; Mr. Alex.
McLean's Woolshed, Maraekakaho.
Petane-School-house, Petane.
Te Aute-The Court House, Waipawa; Revd.
S. Williams' Woolshed, Te Aute.