THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 361

Treasury,
Wellington, 11th July, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HARRY EYRE KENNY, Esq.,
to be Paymaster for Departments of Law and
Justice at Taranaki, vice J. Flight, Esq., retired.

JOHN HALL.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 13th July, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

The COUNTY PAYMASTER, Hokitika, Westland,
to frank, free from pre-payment, letters and packets
sent by him through the post on the public service.

JOHN HALL.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 14th July, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
authorize

The CHIEF OFFICER OF POLICE,
in the County of Westland, to receive, free by post,
letters addressed to him on the public service.

JOHN HALL.

Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th July, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

FREDERICK A. HUNTER, Esq.,
of Auckland, to be a Surveyor under "The Native
Lands Act, 1865."

J. C. RICHMOND.

[Passed by Order in Council, 27th June, 1868.]

REGULATIONS for the sale of rural lands in the
Districts of Ngatiawa, Middle Taranaki, and
Ngatiruanui.

1. Unless otherwise especially ordered by the
   Governor in Council, all rural lands shall be offered
   in the first instance for sale by public auction, at
   such place and time as the Colonial Secretary may
   direct.

2. Notice of every such sale shall be published in
   the New Zealand Gazette not less than thirty days
   before the date thereof.

3. Auctions shall be conducted by the Commis-
   sioner of Crown Lands for Taranaki, or such other
   person and at such place as the Colonial Secretary
   may authorize in that behalf.

4. The bidding shall be for priority of choice, and
   every choice shall be put up at such rate per acre,
   not being less than ten shillings in the case of
   open land, or five shillings in the case of forest land,
   as the Colonial Secretary may direct.

5. No single order of choice shall entitle the pur-
   chaser to select more than five hundred nor less
   than one hundred acres, or to select in several allot-
   ments: Provided that where small pieces of land
   shall have been left intervening between previous
   selections, the Commissioner or other person con-
   ducting the auction may allow them to be taken
   under one order of choice: Provided also that several
   allotments divided only by roads may be chosen
   under one order of choice.

6. Immediately upon any order of choice being
   knocked down, the purchaser shall describe the
   position and area of the allotment he chooses, and
   such allotment shall be at once drawn provisionally
   on the plan of the block.

7. Every selection shall be subject to the regula-
   tions as to frontage and proportions in force in the
   Province of Taranaki with respect to general Crown
   Lands.

8. Every selection shall be subject to reasonable
   modification of size, form, and position, on completion
   of the detailed survey.

9. No selection shall be made so as to leave
   patches of less than fifty acres in area or of
   irregular shape intervening between it and previous
   allotments, and in the construction of this regula-
   tion, the decision of the Commissioner or other
   person conducting the sale shall be final.

10. Every selection shall be subject to any road
    that may at the day of sale be drawn upon the
    official map then exhibited, or to any road that may
    be ordered by the Commissioner of Crown Lands or
    other person duly authorized by the Colonial Secre-
    tary within five years after the selection.

11. One-fourth of the purchase money at auction
    shall be paid to the Commissioner or other person
    conducting the sale, on the fall of the hammer. A
    second instalment of one-fourth in three calendar
    months, and the balance in nine months, either to
    the Commissioner at the Land Office, Taranaki, or
    to the Colonial Treasurer, failing any of which
    instalments the previous payments shall be forfeited:
    Provided that if upon the detailed survey any
    modification reducing the size of an allotment shall
    be made, or if any road shall have been ordered
    under the last preceding regulation, a deduction
    from the last instalment of purchase money shall be
    made in proportion to the area of such reduction or road.

12. The unsold portions of every block shall after
    auction, and until specially withdrawn, remain open
    for purchase at the Land Office, New Plymouth, or
    at such other place as the Colonial Secretary may
    from time to time direct, for cash, payable at the
    Land Office, New Plymouth, at the upset price at
    which the lands within such block were respectively
    offered, and in lots not exceeding five hundred
    nor less than one hundred acres, to be selected
    according to the order of application, and subject
    to regulations six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. All
    such applications should be in writing, addressed
    to the Commissioner or other authorized person,
    who shall, upon receipt of each application, sign
    his name and the date of receipt thereon. No
    selection under any such application shall be made
    before noon on any day. All applications received
    before noon on any one day shall be deemed con-
    temporaneous, and in case of two or more contempo-
    raneous applications, the Commissioner, or other
    authorized person shall, at the request of any of the
    applicants, put up the right of prior selection to
    auction among the applicants.

13. The Colonial Secretary may at any time
    withdraw from sale the whole or any part of a block,
    and the Governor may at any time make such
    reserves therein as he is by law empowered to make.

14. The Government shall not be bound to
    complete the detailed survey of any selection within
    twelvemonths of the date of selection: Provided
    that a purchaser desiring a survey at any earlier
    date, may apply for a special survey, paying for the
    same at the rate of sixpence per acre, which payment
    shall be returned to him if such special survey should
    not be completed within the specified time.

15. A skeleton map of every block shall be
    deposited for public information one fortnight before
    such block is offered for sale at the office of the
    Secretary for Crown Lands, Wellington, and at the