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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[SEPT. 11

Fixing Sittings at Alexandra of District Court of also thereby enacted that all such reservations made
Otago Gold Fields.
before or after the passing of the said Act shall be
valid and effectual to all intents and purposes; pro-
HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
vided always that the right of taking a road through
any section shall only be exercised within five years
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and au- after the issue of the grant, and, with regard to
thority in this behalf enabling me, I, Hercules George grants issued before the passing of the said Act,
Robert Robinson, the Governor of the Colony within three years from the coming into operation of
of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that the said Act; and it is also thereby enacted that, in
sittings of the District Court of the Otago Gold any case where allowances have been or shall be made
Fields for Civil and Criminal business shall be held in land or remission of purchase-money in respect of
as follows, in addition to those previously fixed and such reservation of road, the road to be taken shall
appointed :-
in no case exceed the amount of land allowed or the
amount of the purchase-money whereof shall have been
In the Resident Magistrate's Courthouse at or shall be remitted as aforesaid; and it is also thereby
Alexandra, on the seventh day of October enacted that, whenever such road or roads shall have
and the fifth day of December, next.
been taken or laid down in manner aforesaid on the
land comprised in any such grant by any person
As witness the hand of His Excellency the legally authorized in that behalf, the land conveyed
Governor, this fifth day of September, by the grant shall be deemed, from the date of the
one thousand eight hundred and seventy- laying down of such road, to be all the land therein
nine.
described to be granted, with the exception of the
part thereof taken for such road, which part shall be
G. S. WHITMORE, deemed to be vested in Her Majesty, her heirs and
(for the Minister of Justice.) successors:

Warrant indicating Account into which Rent for And whereas it is expedient that a fit and proper
Native Lands is to be paid in certain cases.
person should be authorized to take and lay down
roads over the lands hereinafter specified:
HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert
BY virtue and in pursuance of the power and Robinson, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
authority in that behalf vested in me by section in exercise and pursuance of all powers and au-
thirteen of "The Native Land Act Amendment Act, thorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby au-
1878 (No. 2)," and of all other powers and author- thorize
ities thereunto me enabling, I, Sir Hercules George
GEORGE ANDREW NORTHCROFT, Esquire,
Robert Robinson, the Governor of New Zealand, do
Assistant-Surveyor of Wellington, to take and lay
hereby indicate that, in cases where the lessees of
down roads over lands Crown-granted in the Akitio
Native land are unable for any of the causes men- District, situated in the Survey Districts of Oahanga,
tioned in the above-named section to make a proper
Mount Cerberus, and Waimata, and for that pur-
payment of the amount of rent reserved in their
pose to exercise all such powers as by the said Act
leases, and to obtain a satisfactory acquittance for
may be exercised by a person legally authorized in
the same, it shall be lawful for such lessees to pay
that behalf under the said Act.
such rent to the credit of the lessors into "The
Public Trustee's Account," and such payment by such
As witness the hand of His Excellency the
lessees shall be and be deemed to be a sufficient
Governor, this ninth day of September,
compliance by them with any covenants in such leases
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
in respect of payment of rent reserved, and the receipt
nine.
of the officer receiving such moneys shall be a full
discharge to the said lessees for so much rent-money
W. GISBORNE.
as is expressed in the receipt to have been received by
such officer.
Notice of Proposed Loan, Borough of Balclutha.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Governor, this eighth day of September,
Wellington, 8th September, 1879.
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.
THE following notice, received from his Worship
G. S. WHITMORE,
the Mayor of Balclutha, is published in accord-
(for the Native Minister.)
ance with section 145 of "The Municipal Corpora-
tions Act, 1876."
Authorizing the taking and laying down of Roads in
the Wellington Provincial District.
G. S. WHITMORE.
HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
Council Chambers,
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
Balclutha, 29th August, 1879.
intituled "The Crown Grants Act, 1866," it
SIR,-I have the honor to inform you that it has
is enacted that, whenever roads or rights of roads
been proposed by the Borough Council of Balclutha
have been or hereafter may be reserved in any Crown
to borrow the sum of six hundred and fifty pounds
grants, but such roads or the particular part or por-
(£650) by way of special loan, for the purpose of
tions of the land comprised in the grant over which
finishing the formation of the streets damaged by
the road is to be or may be taken have not been or
the floods of last year. The Council has complied
may not be specifically described in the body of the
with the provisions of clauses 140, 141, 142, 143, and
grant and laid down from survey on the plan in the
144 of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."
margin thereof, or indorsed thereon or attached
The Returning Officer has intimated to me that the
thereto, such Crown grants, if otherwise duly and
result of the poll of the burgesses taken on the 26th
legally executed, shall be and be taken to have been
instant was as follows :-
as valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as
For the loan ... ... 97 votes
if the said road or part of the land over which the
Against the loan ... ... 4 votes.
right of road was to be taken had been specifically
described and laid down as aforesaid on the said
I have therefore declared the resolution of the
grant before the execution of the same, any law or
Council to be carried, and send you notice in accord-