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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor, by Order in Council, to make regulations
for the transmission and delivery of all despatches,
messages, and communications by means of any such
line, and in like manner to fix and determine the fees,
rates, or dues to be demanded and received for the
transmission of any such despatch, message, or com-
munication, and for the delivery thereof respectively,
and the modes and times of payment; and to regu-
late the conduct, management, working and mainte-
nance of any such telegraph line, and any such fees,
rates, dues, or regulations from time to time to
increase or lower, repeal, alter, or vary respectively,
and direct and make such others as may be deemed
expedient; and that such fees, rates, and dues may
be legally recovered; and such regulations shall have
the force of law when published in the Government
Gazette of the Colony:

And whereas by an Order in Council duly made
and issued, bearing date the twenty-fifth day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine,
the Governor in Council did, in pursuance of the said
recited power and authority, fix and determine the
fees, rates, or dues to be demanded or received for
the transmission of any such despatches, messages, or
communications by means of any line of telegraph
which has been or hereafter shall be established or
purchased under the powers conferred by the said
Act: And whereas it is expedient to revoke the said
Order in Council, and to fix a new tariff of charges:
Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise of the powers vested in him by the herein-
before recited Act, doth, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of New Zealand, revoke the
said Order in Council of the twenty-fifth day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine,
and doth hereby fix and determine that the fees, rates,
and dues specified in the Schedule hereto shall be the
fees, rates, and dues to be demanded and received for
the transmission of despatches, messages, and com-
munications, and the delivery thereof respectively by
such lines of telegraph as aforesaid; and doth further
declare that this order shall take effect on and after
the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy.

SCHEDULE.
Tariff of Charges for the transmission of Telegrams on
the Lines of Electric Telegraph belonging to the
General Government of New Zealand.

UNIVERSAL TARIFF.
FROM any Station in New Zealand to any other
Station in New Zealand having continuous telegraphic
communication therewith:—
For the first ten words or fraction of ten
words ... 1 0
For each additional five words or fraction
of five words after the first ten 0 6

PRESS TARIFF.
For Press Telegrams from any Station in New
Zealand to any other Station in New Zealand having
continuous telegraphic communication therewith:---
For the first ten words ... 0 6
For every additional fifteen words or frac-
tion of fifteen words after the first ten
words ... 0 6

In future no charge will be made for signature,
but it must in all cases be the usual signature of the
person sending the message.
In the case of telegrams of any kind requiring to
be delivered beyond one mile from the Station to
which they are addressed and transmitted, or on
ship-board, or on the water or across the water,
further charges will be made as provided by the
general regulations and conditions for the time being
in force in relation thereto.
Minimum charge, ten words. By Press Telegram
is meant intelligence transmitted for bond fide publi-
cation in the regular newspapers and journals.

WILLIAM Fox,
Presiding.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Auckland, this
thirteenth day of April, 1870.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Settlements
Act, 1863," it is provided that, after setting
apart sufficient land for all persons who shall be
entitled thereto under the contracts therein referred
to, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to
cause towns to be surveyed and laid out, and also
suburban and rural allotments; and that all such
town, suburban, and rural lands shall be sold,
occupied, and disposed of for such prices, in such
manner, and for such purposes, upon such terms and
subject to such regulations, as the Governor in
Council shall from time to time prescribe for that
purpose:

And whereas by "The New Zealand Settlements
Amendment and Continuance Act, 1865," it is
enacted that the order and manner in which land
taken under the authority of "The New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863," and "The New Zealand
Settlements Amendment and Continuance Act,
1865," should be laid out for sale and sold, should be
at the discretion of the Governor, who shall have
power to cause such land or any part thereof to be
laid out for sale and sold from time to time in such
manner, for such consideration, and in such allot-
ments as he shall think fit, and subject to such
regulations as he shall with the advice of the Execu-
tive Council from time to time prescribe: And
whereas by "The New Zealand Settlements Amend-
ment Act, 1866," it is provided that the said lands
shall be sold for such consideration or at such price,
and whether for cash or otherwise, as the Governor
shall from time to time prescribe, and that all lands
taken under the authority of the said "New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863," and "The New Zealand
Settlements Amendment and Continuance Act, 1865,"
or either of them, and sold or disposed of under the
authority of the said first recited Act, shall be sold
or disposed of under Regulations to be made by the
Governor in Council, which Regulations shall be
published in the New Zealand Gazette :

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise of all powers and authorities vested in him
in that behalf, doth hereby, with the advice and con-
sent of the Executive Council of the Colony, make
the following Regulations for the sale and disposal
of the land described in the Schedule hereto, being
land taken under the said Acts or either or any of
them.

HENRY D. PITT, Capt., R.A.,
Private Secretary

JULIUS VOGEL.
(for Clerk of the Executive Council).