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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

"The said Act" shall mean "The Gold Fields
Act, 1866," and shall include any amendments
thereof.
2. The lands that may be leased under these Regu-
lations shall be the town sections defined on the map
of the Township of Ross, in the Survey Office at
Hokitika, in the Province of Westland.
3. Under these Regulations, the surface only of
such lands shall be leased; and no lease shall entitle
the lessee to mine for gold on the land leased, or to
extract, dig, or search for any metals or minerals
therein or thereon.
4. No lease shall be granted under these Regula-
tions over any land in respect of which a mining
lease under the said Act may have been already
granted, unless in such mining lease all right to
occupy the surface of the land shall have been
specially excepted or reserved, or unless the lessee
of such mining lease shall assent to the issue of such
surface lease and shall join therein.
5. No lessee under these Regulations shall have
any claim for compensation for any damage which
may be caused or arise from mining operations
carried on below the surface.
6. Any holder of an existing business license
issued under the said Act who may be desirous of
obtaining a lease under these Regulations shall make
application in writing to the Warden specifying the
number of the section applied for, and upon receipt
of such application, the Warden shall appoint a day
for considering the same.
7. The applicant shall cause one calendar month's
notice of his application, and of the day appointed
for considering the same, to be inserted in the
Government Gazette of the province, and also in
one newspaper circulating in the district; and the
Warden shall transmit his report to the Superin-
tendent, who shall forward the same to the Colo-
nial Secretary, together with his recommendations
thereon:
8. Leases shall be granted for such term not ex-
ceeding twenty-one years as the Governor in Council
shall determine.
9. The annual rental for each section shall be the
sum of twenty shillings per annum, payable in
advance.
10. Every lease shall be made in such form as the
Governor in Council shall determine, and shall con-
tain all usual and necessary covenants on the part of
the lessee, together with a covenant on his part that
the land leased shall not be assigned nor underlet
without consent by or on behalf of the lessor, and
together also with conditions for re-entry and for-
feiture on non-payment of rent or on breach of
covenant on the part of the lessee, and such further
or other additional covenants and conditions as the
Governor in Council shall think fit to require.
11. The cost of preparation of the lease and
counterpart thereof shall be borne and paid by the
lessee.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under "The Inspection of Machinery
Act, 1874."

NORMANBY,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifth day of January, 1875.
Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the forty-seventh section of "The
Inspection of Machinery Act, 1874," it is,

among other things, enacted that the Governor in
Council may from time to time make, alter, amend,
or revoke any regulations not inconsistent with the
said Act for prescribing a form of record book to be
kept for the entry of particulars as to inspection of
boilers, and the mode in which the same shall be
kept, and at what places and times the same shall be
open to inspection:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Administrator of the
Government of New Zealand, in pursuance and ex-
ercise of the power and authority vested in me by the
said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the Colony, do hereby make
the following regulations for the purposes aforesaid,
that is to say, that the form of the said record book
shall be that given in the Schedule hereunto annexed,
and that such record book shall be open to inspection
during ordinary office hours at the Resident Magis-
trate's Court at the principal town of each Province
in which the said Act has been or may hereafter be
brought into operation.

SCHEDULE.

• Name of Owner.
• Residence.
• Purpose for which
  Boiler is used.
• Description of Boiler.
• Approximate Horse-
  power.
• Date on which In-
  spected.
• Signature of Inspector.

FORSTER
GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice of intention to Purchase Native Land.

NORMANBY,
Administrator of the Government.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act Amendment Act, 1871," the
Governor is, among other things, empowered to
enter into arrangements for the acquisition of par-
ticular portions of land in the North Island, for the
purpose of mining for gold, for the establishment of
special settlements, or for the purposes of railway
construction; and by the said Act it is also pro-
vided that it shall be lawful for the Governor,
whenever he shall have determined to enter into
negotiations for the purchase of such land, to insert
a notice in the New Zealand Gazette that it is his
intention to enter into such negotiations, and after
such notice is inserted it shall not be lawful for any
one to purchase or acquire from the Native owners
any right, title, or interest, or contract for the pur-
chase or acquisition from the Native owners of any
right, title, or interest, in the lands specified in
such notice, unless the notice be cancelled by the
Governor: Provided that no such notice shall have
longer operation than for the period of two years :

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Administrator of the
Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance of the provisions of the hereinbefore in part
recited Act, and in exercise of the powers thereby
vested in me, do hereby give notice that it is my
intention forthwith to enter into negotiations for
the purchase from the Native owners of the block
or parcel of land situate in the Province of Welling-
ton, and described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land at Manawatu, con-
taining by estimation five thousand five hundred