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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by the eighty-third section of "The
Native Lands Act, 1865," after reciting that
at various times agreements had been or might be
thereafter made between the owners of Native land
or other persons interested therein on the one part,
and officers duly authorized to enter into the same on
the other part, for the cession of Native land to Her
Majesty, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor to refer any such agreement to the Court,
and the Court shall investigate the title to and the
interests in such land in the manner prescribed in
the said Act, and that the Court shall make such
orders either for the completion of the agreement
upon such terms and conditions as the Court shall
think fit, or for the apportionment of the land
between the parties interested therein in such
manner as the Court shall think equitable: provided
that all Native lands in respect to which any such
agreement shall be outstanding and incomplete at the
time of the passing of the said Act shall, unless the
Governor shall otherwise direct, be excluded from
the operation of the said Act until the thirty-first day
of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
six: And whereas by "The Native Lands Act, 1867,"
it is enacted that all Native land referred to in
section eighty-three of "The Native Lands Act,
1865," shall, unless the Governor shall otherwise
direct from time to time in respect of any such land,
be excluded from the operation of "The Native Lands
Act, 1865," and of "The Native Lands Act, 1867,"
until the thirty-first day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight: provided that every
such agreement between the owners of any such land
or other persons interested therein on the one part, and
officers duly authorised to enter into the same on behalf
of Her Majesty on the other part, may be referred by
the Governor to the Court, and the Court shall
thereupon investigate the title to and the interests in
such land in the manner prescribed in "The Native
Lands Act, 1865," and "The Native Lands Act,
1867," and shall make such orders as it is by the said
eighty-third section of "The Native Lands Act"
empowered to make: And whereas, on or about the
fifth day of December, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-four, a certain agreement or deed of cession
was made between Wereta te Waha and others, as
the owners or persons interested in the parcel of
Native land (called Te Paretao), particularly described
in the Schedule hereto, on the one part, and Isaac
Earl Featherston, an officer duly authorised to enter
into the same, on the other part, for the cession of
the said parcel of Native land to Her Majesty: And
whereas a claim to the ownership of or to some
interest in the said parcel of land has been set up by
Parakaia te Ponepa:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and in pursu-
ance of the power and authority in that behalf vested
in me, do hereby refer to the Native Land Court of
New Zealand the said agreement or deed of cession,
bearing date the fifth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four, and made between
Wereta te Waha and others of the one part, and
Isaac Earl Featherston of the other part, in order
that the title to the said parcel of land may be
investigated, and that such proceedings may be taken
and had thereupon as are authorised by the Acts
aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

Bounded on the North by Crown land and by a
portion of the land granted to the children of Thomas
Uppadine Cook; on the East, by land known as Te
Kawaroa, and ceded to the Crown by Te Kei Paehua
and others; on the South, by Crown land; on the
West, by the Manawatu River, and by other portions
of the land granted as aforesaid to the children of
Thomas Uppadine Cook; comprising an area of four
hundred and forty (440) acres, more or less.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vico-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington; this seventh day
day of October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.

J. C. RICHMOND.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th October, 1868.

THE following Despatch, and the Colonial Regula-
tions referred to therein, relative to the corre-
spondence communicated from persons in the Colony
to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, are
published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Downing Street,
10th August, 1868.

SIR, I have recently received several communica-
tions from the Provinces in New Zealand otherwise
than through yourself.

I request that you will call the attention of the
Superintendents of Provinces to the 217th and follow-
ing Colonial Regulations, and inform them that it
will not be possible for me to take notice of commu-
nications forwarded to me otherwise than as the
Regulations require.

I have, &c.,

BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS.

Governor Sir G. F. Bowen, G.C.M.G.

217. Persons in a Colony, whether public function-
     aries or private individuals, who have any representa-
     tions of a public or private nature to make to Govern-
     ment, should address them to the Governor of the
     Colony; or, if the Colony be a dependency of a
     Governor-in-Chief, then to the officer in the imme-
     diate administration of its Government.

218. The duty of the Governor or Administrator
     of the Colony is to receive and act upon each such
     representation as public expediency or justice to the
     individual may appear to require, with the assistance
     in certain cases of his Executive Council; and if he
     doubts what steps to take thereupon, or if public
     advantage may appear to require it, to consult or
     report to the Secretary of State. Every individual
     has, however, the right to address the Secretary of
     State, if he thinks proper. But in this case he must
     transmit such communication, unsealed, and in
     triplicate, to the Governor or Administrator, apply-
     ing to him to forward it in due course to the Secre-
     tary of State.

219. Every letter, memorial, or other document,
     which may be received by the Secretary of State
     from a Colony otherwise than through the Governor,
     will, unless a very pressing urgency justifies a depar-
     ture from the rule, be referred back to the Governor
     for his report.

220. This rule, requiring transmission of corre-
     spondence with the Secretary of State through the