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particularly delineated on the working plan of the
said town, deposited in the Survey Office, Inver-
cargill. As a site for a telegraph office.
from Kai-iwi and Pakaraka Blocks; and on the
West by the Waitotara River. This block has
not passed the Native Land Court.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this fifteenth day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.

G. S. WHITMORE.

OTAIRI NO. 2.

All that parcel of land in the District of Wanganui
in the Provincial District of Wellington, known by
the name of Otairi No. 2, containing by estimation
100,000 acres, or thereabouts. Boundaries: Com-
mencing at the mouth of the Mangapapa Stream,
thence along the Turakina River to the survey line
of Te Ruanui Block, thence following that line till
it strikes the line of Murimotu Survey, thence along
the Hautapu Stream to Tamateahi, thence to Kai-
tapa, thence to Turangarere, thence to Kokako,
thence to Motukawa, thence to Pahekeheke, thence
to Paengaroa, thence inland of Hautapu to Pukerimu,
thence to Maungahitau, thence to Mangataweka,
thence following the survey line of Mangaone to its
mouth, thence along the Mangapapa till it strikes the
mouth of the Turaki Stream, the starting point.
This block has not passed the Native Land Court.

Children to be dealt with under "The Neglected and
Criminal Children Act, 1867," in the Provincial
District of Wellington, to be sent to Reformatory
School, Burnham.

TE WHARAU.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS no school established pursuant to
"The Neglected and Criminal Children Act,
1867," for convicted children, by that Act provided
for, exists in the Provincial District of Wellington:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in me in that behalf, do
hereby order and arrange that the Reformatory
School at Burnham, in the Provincial District of
Canterbury, shall and may be used in common for
convicted children requiring to be dealt with under
the provisions of the said Act in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Wellington, as well as of convicted children
requiring to be dealt with by virtue of the said Act
in the said Provincial District of Canterbury.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this seventeenth day of Feb-
ruary, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine.

JOHN SHEEHAN.

All that parcel of land in the District of Wanganui,
in the Provincial District of Wellington, known by
the name of Te Wharau, containing by estimation
6,000 acres, or thereabouts. Boundaries: Com-
mencing at Parihauhau on the Tuhira Stream, thence
to the Wangaehu River at Ruaotane, thence
southerly to Aramohoe, thence to Pihaua, thence to
Pukairaho, and thence to Rangiahu, turning there
to the west and going on to Arahinau, thence to Te
Ahu, thence to Ngakoromatua, thence to Opaeko,
thence to Te Awaawaroa, turning west again and
going on to Rangiouturu, turning east and going on
to Pukahikatoa, thence to Te Ahitahuhinu, crossing
Oputara Stream at Waiheke and Ihumaranganui,
thence to Tuhira, the starting point. This block has
not passed the Native Land Court.

Notification of the Payment of Money on and Entry
into Negotiations for the Purchase of Native Lands
in the North Island.

JOHN SHEEHAN,
(On behalf of His Excellency the Governor.)

IN pursuance of the provisions of "The Govern-
ment Native Land Purchases Act, 1877," it is
hereby notified that money has been paid by or on
behalf of Her Majesty the Queen for the purchase
or acquisition of the several blocks of Native land in
the North Island which are more particularly de-
scribed and mentioned in the Schedule hereto; and,
further, that negotiations in respect of such pur-
chases or acquisitions as aforesaid have been entered
into by or on behalf of Her said Majesty.

OTUPERE.

All that parcel of land in the District of Wanganni,
in the Provincial District of Wellington, known by
the name of Otupere, containing by estimation 3,000
acres, or thereabouts. Boundaries: Commencing at
Te Kapara, thence following the boundary line of
Otamoa No. 2, thence to Moungaariki, thence to
Pukehou, thence following the Upokonui to Te
Kapara, the starting point. This block has not passed
Native Land Court.

SCHEDULE.

RANGITATAU.

ALL that parcel of land in the District of Wanganui,
in the Provincial District of Wellington, known by
the name of Rangitatau, containing by admeasure-
ment 41,676 acres, or thereabouts. Bounded on the
North by traverse lines to the south-south-west about
1½ miles, then for a short distance (about 2 miles)
by the Mangamini Stream, then by a line about 60
chains to Pakira, then on by lines about 40 chains to
a stream bounding it from the Manganui-o-Tahu
Block; on the East by survey lines through Aramaire,
and bounding it from the Tokomaru, Ruahine, and
Koatauni and Kaiwhatu Blocks, part of the boundary
being on the banks of the Mangaone Stream; on the
South by straight lines about 11 miles, dividing it

OHAKUNE.

All that parcel of land in the District of Wanganui,
in the Provincial District of Wellington, known by
the name of Ohakune, containing by estimation 10,000
acres, or thereabouts. Boundaries: Commencing on
the west at Umumore, thence to Te Mai, thence to
Kohangakuri, turning to the south and going on to
Ohakune, thence to Makaraiti, thence to Mangatete,
thence to Ruapehu, thence easterly to Rongokapu,
thence to Puketoi, thence to Te Angaanga, thence to
Te Awapuni, thence to Apuwhenua, thence following
along the boundary line of Tawhitoariki to Umumore,
the starting point. This block has not passed the
Native Land Court.

OTAUPARI.

All that parcel of land in the District of Wanganui,
in the Provincial District of Wellington, known by
the name of Otaupari, containing by estimation 3,000
acres, or thereabouts. Boundaries: Commencing at
Te Maru, thence to Waituna, thence to Wahakawa,
thence to Otaupari, thence to Eriko, thence to