THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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specific purpose set opposite such description in the
second column of the said Schedule, and such land
shall henceforth be deemed to be reserved and set
apart for such last-mentioned specific purpose, and
no other.

SCHEDULE.

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

ROBERT STOUT,
Minister of Lands.

Appointment of Resident Magistrate's Court for
Ridings in the County of Grey, pursuant to the
47th Section of "The Counties Act, 1876."

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested
in me by the forty-seventh section of "The
Counties Act, 1876," I, Hercules George Robert
Robinson, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
do hereby appoint the Resident Magistrate's Court
named in the first column of the Schedule hereto to
be the Resident Magistrate's Court for the ridings
in the County of Grey named in and set opposite
to such Courts respectively in the second column of
the said Schedule to which any person who considers
himself aggrieved by his own name or that of any
other person being entered on or omitted from the
roll of such ridings respectively, or by the number
of votes allotted to him or to any other person
thereon being more or fewer than that to which he
or such other person is entitled under the said Act,
may apply for relief.

SCHEDULE.

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

G. S. WHITMORE.

Amending Regulations respecting Agricultural
Leases under "The Mines Act, 1877."

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the fifty-first section of "The
Mines Act, 1877" (herein referred to as "the
said Act"), it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, subject to the provisions of the said
Act, from time to time to make, alter, amend, and
revoke rules and regulations for all or any of the
purposes thereinafter enumerated: And whereas by
the fifty-third section of the said Act it is enacted
that the rules and regulations contained in the Ap-
pendices to the said Act shall be deemed to be the
first rules and regulations made under the fifty-first
and fifty-second sections of the said Act: And
whereas it is expedient that the regulations respect-
ing agricultural leases under Appendix B to the said
Act, and numbered three, five, ten, twelve, thirteen,
fifteen, and eighteen, should be amended:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robin-
son, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby order that the regulations under Appendix B
particularly referred to above shall be and are
hereby revoked, and the following substituted in lieu
thereof:—

Who may apply.

3. Every application must be made by the appli-
   cant in person; and the Warden shall not entertain
   any application unless he is satisfied that the person
   is of the full age of twenty-one years, and legally
   capable of being bound by the contract into which it
   is thereby proposed to enter, and is not in respect of
   the land applied for, or in respect of any part thereof,
   the agent or servant of or a trustee for any other
   person.

Objections.

5. Objections that the applicant is not of the full
   age of twenty-one years, or that he is in respect of
   the land applied for the agent or servant of or the
   trustee for any other person, or that the whole or any
   portion of the land applied for is claimed or owned
   by any person other than the applicant, or is in the
   whole or in part auriferous, or is or is likely to be
   required for any public purpose, must be made in
   writing to the Warden, and lodged at the office at
   which the application shall have been lodged twenty-
   four hours at the least before the time appointed for
   hearing; and the person objecting must at the time
   appointed for hearing urge the objection personally,
   or by counsel or agent.

6. At any time before finally dealing with any
   application the Warden may require a report or
   survey to be made by the District Surveyor, and in
   such case the cost of such survey or report shall be
   paid in advance to the Receiver of Gold Revenue
   either by the applicant or the objector, or partly by
   both, as may be decided by the Warden.

Granting Certificate.

12. If no valid objection as aforesaid be made,
    and no reason be known to the Warden why the
    application should not be granted, or if on hearing
    such application he shall decide that a part only
    of the land applied for should be granted, he shall
    require the applicant to pay to the Receiver of
    Gold Revenue a sum, calculated in the case where
    survey fees have not been paid by the applicant at
    the rate of three shillings per acre, and in the case
    where survey fees have been paid by the applicant at
    the rate of one shilling and sixpence per acre, of the
    land intended to be granted; and such payment shall
    cover all charges in respect of such grant, inclusive
    of rent, for the first six months of the term; and
    upon production of the Receiver's receipt for the
    above sum to the Warden, he shall give to the appli-
    cant a certificate in the form of Schedule B hereto,
    bearing even date with such receipt, from which date
    the commencement of the term of the lease (if a
    lease be granted) shall be taken and computed.

Governor's Power to refuse Lease reserved.

13. On issuing any certificate the Warden shall
    forthwith forward to the Governor a duplicate of
    such certificate, and, notwithstanding the issue of the
    same, it shall be lawful for the Governor within sixty
    days from the date thereof to refuse to grant to the
    applicant a lease of the land referred to in such
    certificate; and immediately upon such refusal being
    communicated to the applicant, either personally or
    by letter addressed to him at his usual or last known