810 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

the Regulations in force in the Provinces of Hawke's
Bay and Wellington for the sale and disposal of the
waste lands of the Crown.
3. Roads and road lines shall be laid off through
the said settlements in such directions as may be
thought expedient.
4. Within the settlements, the Minister may from
time to time make such reserves for the purposes of
the Government of the Colony, or for railways, bridges,
roads, tramways, or other public works, or for schools
and schoolhouses, churches or chapels, or for the
purpose of preserving the timber in any part of the
settlements, as he may think fit.
5. Such reservés shall be managed in such manner
as the Minister shall think fit, and he may allow the
same to be occupied, sold, or disposed of under these
Regulations on such terms and conditions as he shall
prescribe. The purpose for which any such reserve
shall have been made may be changed by the Minis-
ter, and any such reserve may be by him withdrawn
from reservation. Notice of the making of any such
reserve, and of any change made in the purposes for
which the same shall have been reserved, or of any
withdrawal thereof, shall be notified in the New Zea-
land Gazette.
6. The persons to be located on the said settlements
shall be such immigrants as shall from time to time
be approved of by the Minister, and the head of each
family of such immigrants shall be allowed to select
one section of land in the settlement. Such selection
shall be made in such order and at such time as the
Minister shall prescribe.
7. During the first two years of his occupation, if
the settler shall have erected on the land selected a
habitable dwelling-house, and shall have improved
the land by falling the bush thereon, cropping or
laying down in grass, and fencing at least five acres
thereof, he shall be allowed to continue his hold-
ing and to purchase the land at a price of £1 per
acre, payable in equal annual instalments of £13 6s.
8d. each; such instalments to be payable at the end
of each year after the expiration of the first two years.
The money to be paid in such manner and to such
persons as the Minister shall from time to time
direct.
8. If at the end of the said two years' occupation
the settler shall be in a position to pay for his land
at once, he shall be at liberty to do so at the rate
aforesaid.
9. Any failure to make the said payments or to
perform and fulfil the conditions above prescribed
will occasion a forfeiture of the land selected, and of
all claim thereto or interest therein.
10. Upon full payment of the purchase money at
the rates aforesaid, and upon the performance of the
terms of these Regulations, the settler shall be en-
titled to a Crown grant of his land free of any further
expense, except the usual Crown grant fees.
11. No settler shall be at liberty to part with, sell,
assign, charge, or encumber his estate or interest in
any land selected by him under these Regulations
until he shall have paid his said purchase money, and
otherwise complied with these Regulations: Pro-
vided that the Minister may in any case, if he think
fit, by writing under his hand, consent to any such
sale, assignment, or charge upon the land selected
as aforesaid.

Establishing a Municipality at Napier.
(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," provision is made for constituting
by Proclamation, boroughs in districts not comprised

within the limits of any of the cities, towns, or places
therein particularly mentioned: And whereas it is
expedient to constitute the Town of Napier a borough
in manner hereinafter provided:
Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance of the powers vested in me by the said Act,
do hereby constitute and proclaim the district com-
prised within

THE TOWN OF NAPIER,

as the boundaries thereof are defined in the Schedule
hereto, to be a Borough under "The Municipal Cor-
porations Act, 1867," aforesaid.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued under the Public Seal
of the said Colony, at Auckland, this
twenty-sixth day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.

ALL the land known as the Town of Napier, except
that portion of the town which is situated on Meeanee
Spit. The boundaries whereof are-Commencing at
the Pilot Station, following the sea beach in an
easterly direction to the point of the Ahuriri Bluff,
rounding the Bluff and proceeding along the sea
beach to the southern extremity of the Town of
Napier; there it crosses at the southern boundary of
Section No. 586 to the inner lagoon, following the
lagoon by Wellesley Road and Hyderabad Road to
Pandora Point; thence in a straight line to the
beacon on the most westerly point of Maori Island;
thence in a straight line to the starting point.

Rules of Practice and Procedure in Appeals under
"Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, 1870."

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Auckland, this
twenty-sixth day of November, 1874.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Native Lands Frauds Preven-
tion Act, 1870," it is enacted that any person
aggrieved by any act of the Trust Commissioner in
relation to the giving or withholding the certificate in
the said Act mentioned may appeal to the Supreme
Court against the decision of the Trust Commissioner,
and such appeal shall be made within such time and in
such form, and with such provisions as to notice of
appeal and as to the effect of such notice, and shall
be heard and determined in such manner as shall be
fixed and provided in that behalf in the rules of
procedure thereinafter directed to be made: And
whereas by the said Act it is also provided that the
Governor in Council may, with the approval of a
Judge of the Supreme Court, make and from time to
time alter, revoke, or amend such rules of practice and
procedure for regulating proceedings under the said
Act as to him shall seem fit, and such rules, when
published in the New Zealand Gazette, shall have the
force of law :