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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
fix and appoint that sittings of the District Court of
the Otago Gold Fields, during the month of June
next, shall be held as follows:-
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Naseby
on the third day of June next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Clyde on
the eighth day of June next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Queens-
town on the fourteenth day of June next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Lawrence
on the twenty-first day of June next.
Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as
aforesaid shall happen to be a holiday, then the
Court appointed for that day shall be holden on the
first day thereafter, not being a holiday.
Issued this twentieth day of May, one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-five.
CHARLES C. BOWEN.

*Notice of intention of Government to negotiate for the
Purchase of certain Native Lands.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

W
HEREAS 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 purpose of railway
construction:

And by the said Act it is also provided 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 purchase or acquisition
from the Native owners of any right, title, or in-
terest, 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 Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance 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 Auckland, and described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that block or parcel of land at Tolago Bay, in
the Province of Auckland, and Colony of New Zea-
land, and bounded as follows: - On the East, by
blocks known as Township Proper and Mangarara
No. 1; on the South and West, by the Uawa River;
on the North, by a line extending from the Uawa
River to north-western extremity of Township
Proper.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl
of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; Knight Commander 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 Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at Wellington, this thirty-
first day of May, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.

H. A. ATKINSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Notice of intention of Government to negotiate for the
Purchase of certain Native Lands.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

W
HEREAS 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 purpose of railway
construction:

And by the said Act it is also provided 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 purchase or acquisition
from the Native owners of any right, title, or in-
terest, 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 Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance 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 Wellington, and described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that block or parcel of land situate in the Pro-
vince of Wellington and Colony of New Zealand, and
bounded as follows:---Commencing at the junction
of the Kawhatau and Rangitikei Rivers; thence down
the Rangitikei River to Waitapu; thence along the
northern boundary of the Rangitikei-Manawatu
Block to the Oroua River; thence up the Oroua
River to Te Umutoi; thence along Campion's Bush
traverse to where it cuts the Kawhatau River; and
thence down that river to the commencing point.
Excluding all that block of land called Otamakapua,
containing eight thousand nine hundred and fifty-two
(8952) acres, which has been heard before the Native
Court.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl
of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the