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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

and description as near as may be of the land
required.
No application for bush land exceeding three
hundred acres shall be granted for the erection of
any sawmill, and as regards shape and frontage lines
shall be subject to the provisions of the 30th, 31st,
and 32nd clauses of "The Southland Waste Lands
Act, 1865."

Within fourteen days the Waste Land Board shall
determine whether such application be granted or
refused, and if granted, the applicant shall forthwith
deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue the sum
of fifty pounds.

Within thirty days from the payment of the deposit
the Chief Surveyor shall cause the application to be
surveyed, and its boundary lines cut. The survey on
its completion shall be submitted to the Waste Land
Board, and, if approved, the Chief Commissioner
shall demand of applicant the first instalment of rent,
and on its payment, shall issue to him a license
conferring on him the exclusive right of cutting
timber over the said land, but the money paid as
deposit shall be forfeited in case the first instalment
of rent is not paid on demand.

The expense of such survey shall be deducted from
the deposit paid by the applicant, and the balance
shall be allowed in account of the first instalment of
the rent, the surplus, if any, after satisfaction of the
rent, to be returned to the applicant.

The rent chargeable on every such license shall be
four pounds per acre per annum, and shall be paid in
equal instalments half yearly in advance.

A fee shall be paid to the Receiver of Land
Revenue on the transfer of such license at the rate
of one shilling for every acre contained in the license:
Provided that in no case shall the fee so charged be
less than one pound.

Every such license shall be drawn so as to termi-
nate on the 31st day of December, in each year.
Provided that if the rent having been duly paid, the
licensee produces a certificate under the hand of the
ranger or other person appointed by the Board to
inspect the land, to the effect that none of the
provisions of "The Southland Waste Lands Act"
or the bye-laws of the Waste Lands Board have been
violated, and it is consistent with the public interests,
the Board may renew the license for another year,
on the original terms and conditions, and so on from
year to year.

If after the first day of July in any year, the
licensee being still in occupation of the land, shall
neglect to pay the rent within seven days therefrom,
the Chief Commissioner shall cause him to be served
with a notice demanding immediate payment of the
half-yearly instalment of the rent, and if after seven
other days from the service of the notice the rent
shall still remain unpaid, it shall be lawful for the
Board to issue a warrant directed to a constable to
levy the amount so due together with the expenses
of the process, by distress and sale of a sufficient part
of the plant and machinery or other goods and
chattels of the licensee, in like manner as in case of
rent in arrear between landlord and tenant.

GENERAL.

If any person holding a license to cut timber
whether by hand or machinery, shall be proved before
the Board to have offended against any regulations
herein contained respecting timber, or to have
wilfully or negligently injured or destroyed by fire
or otherwise any timber belonging to the Crown,
such license shall be, and shall be immediately
declared to be forfeited, and it shall be at the discretion
of the Board to refuse to allow the issue of another
license to the same person.

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 20th January, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ROBERT PARRIS, Esq.,

to be a Resident Magistrate under "The Resident
Magistrates' Act, 1867," for the District of New
Plymouth, as the same is defined by a proclamation
dated the 29th November, 1867.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 20th January, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HENRY JOHN PERHAM, Esq.,
of Wanganui, to be a Crown Solicitor for the conduct
of prosecutions under the Regulations of the 23rd
February, 1864, and of the 19th December, 1867,
for the Judicial District called the "Wellington
District."

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 23rd January, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN EDWARD DUFF,

to be Clerk to the Bench at Timaru and Arowhenua,
under "The Resident Magistrates' Act, 1867."

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 25th January, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM EDWARD SHURY,

to be Clerk to the Bench at Riverton, under "The
Resident Magistrates' Act, 1867."

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th January, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the undermentioned appointments,
viz. :-

In the Canterbury Militia and Volunteers.
Major George Packe to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Date of commission, 12th January, 1868.
Captain John Cracroft Wilson, C.B., to be Major.
Date of commission, 12th January, 1868.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Packe to command the
Militia and Volunteers, in the Province of
Canterbury.

J. RICHARDSON,
(for Colonel Haultain).

WHEREAS it it intended that a Trigonometrical
Survey shall be immediately executed over
the district extending from the sea coast of the Bay
of Plenty to and around Lake Taupo, and over such
districts in that vicinity as the Native owners may
desire to have surveyed, with a view to establishing
their titles before the Native Lands Court.

Notice is hereby given, that owners or lessees of
blocks of land of not less area than 10,000 acres in-
cluded in the territory so to be surveyed, may, at the
same time, have the boundaries of their claims
determined and marked, and maps supplied for the
purposes of the Native Lands Courts, provided that
they point out such boundaries to the officer con-