THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 275

regard to the wharves in connection with the said rail-
way so made and constructed by the Governor as
aforesaid, and which is more particularly mentioned
in the Second Schedule hereto annexed.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

RATES FOR PICTON WHARVES.

On Grain or Flour, per ton s. d. 1 6
, Grain or Flour, not exceeding 200 lbs.,
per bag ... 0 3
, Posts and Rails, at per 100, and Firewood,
at per Cord ... 0 6
, Sawn Timber, at per 100 feet, from or
upon New Wharf ... 0 3$rac{1}{2}$
, Sawn Timber, at per 100 feet, from or
upon Old Wharf ... 0 2$rac{1}{2}$
, A single Bag or Parcel ... 0 3
, All Horses or Cattle, if not more than one 2 6
, after the first, each 1 6
, Sheep or Pigs, not exceeding 50, each 0 2
, all over 50, each ... 0 1
, Bricks, per 1,000 ... 2 6
, Coals, per ton ... 1 0
, Wool, per bale ... 0 3
, Flax and Tow, per bale ... 0 2
, Hides, 40 to the ton ... 2 0
, Sheepskins, per bale ... 0 3
, Tallow, per cask ... 0 3
, All other Goods not enumerated, per ton,
either weight or measure, at the option
of the Wharfinger ... 2 0
, Wagons ... 5 0
, Traps ... 3 0
, Hand Carts or Trucks ... 0 6
All Goods, &c., landed on the Government
lands adjacent to the Wharves shall be
subject to same dues as if landed on Wharf.

Exemptions.

Such Passengers' Luggage or Ships' Stores
as are carried in hand.

All Goods, Produce, or Stock coming from
or going to Settlers residing in Queen
Charlotte Sound.

Storage.

All Goods not taken away within 12 working
hours will be charged storage at the rate
of 2s. per ton per week, or fraction thereof.
Wool, Flax, and Tow to be charged at per
bale, and Tallow at per cask, including
storage, labour, and shipping ... 0 7
Wool or Flax, Tow, and Tallow to be removed
within four weeks, or a charge per week
will be made for every week after that
time, per bale or cask ... 0 3

Labour.

Labour to be optional, and not compulsory.
On all Goods, with the exception of Timber
and Live Stock, and except on packages
exceeding one-half ton weight, when the
Wharfinger shall be at liberty to make an
additional charge for extra labour, if
required, per ton ... 1 0
Labour loading carts, not compulsory, per
ton ... 0 6

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Picton to Blenheim Railway (Picton Wharves).

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Presiding.

Withdrawing certain Lands from Reservation.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At Wellington, this thirty-first day of March, 1876.

Present:

THE HONORABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING 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 land shall be sold, occu-
pied 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 allotments as he
shall think fit, and subject to such regulations as he
shall, with the advice of the Executive Council, from
time to time prescribe: And whereas by "The New
Zealand Settlements Amendment 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: And whereas, under the
hereinbefore in part recited powers, the Governor in
Council did, on the eleventh day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one, make and issue
certain regulations for the sale and disposal of con-
fiscated lands as therein provided: And whereas
the said regulations provide for the making of
reserves of such lands for the purposes therein
specified, and it is provided that the purposes for
which any reserves have been made may be changed,
or the reservation of the same withdrawn by the
Government, but so that no change or withdrawal
shall be made except after notice of three months in
the New Zealand Gazette, and by special order of the
Governor in Council: And whereas the several
parcels of land hereinafter particularly mentioned
have been reserved and set apart under regulations
made under the authority of the said in part recited
Acts, and it is expedient that they should cease to be
reserves: And whereas, in accordance with the said
Regulations of the eleventh day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, three
months' notice of the intention of the Government to
withdraw the same has been duly given in the New
Zealand Gazette:

Now, therefore, His Excellency, in pursuance and
exercise of the power and authority vested in him in
that behalf, doth hereby, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the Colony of New
Zealand, order and declare that the several parcels