Governor, under “The Land Act, 1877,” and Acts amending the same:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand has, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, set apart the lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto for sale as a village settlement:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby fix the following terms and conditions upon which the said village settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same, that is to say,—

1. The lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto shall be disposed of as small-farm allotments for cash and upon deferred payments.

2. The day upon which the lands shall be open for application shall be Wednesday, the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, at the Land Office, Christchurch.

3. The lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto shall be sold for cash immediately on purchase, and the lands enumerated in the Second Schedule hereto shall be sold on deferred payments.

4. The lands which are disposed of by sale upon deferred payments shall be subject to the provisions relating to suburban lands of Part III. of “The Land Act, 1877,” in cases where the allotments are twenty acres or under, and to rural lands of the said Part III. of “The Land Act, 1877,” where the allotments exceed an area of twenty acres, and to the provisions of section nine of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879.”

5. No person shall be allowed to acquire more than one section upon either immediate or deferred payments.

6. The prices stated in the Schedules hereto shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for application.

7. If there should be more than one application for any allotment, the right to purchase the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

8. Each applicant for a deferred-payment section in the Second Schedule will be required to make the declaration prescribed by section sixty-two of “The Land Act, 1877,” and shall at the time of application deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the Canterbury Land District one-tenth of the price of the allotment if twenty acres or under, and one-twentieth of the price of the allotment if the area is greater than twenty acres. Such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months due on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

9. The purchaser of any lands described in the First Schedule, upon the full payment of the purchase-money, and the purchaser of any lands described in the Second Schedule, upon the like payment, and also the fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by “The Land Act, 1877,” “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879,” and “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882,” relating to land on deferred payments, will be entitled to his Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way upon payment of the fees prescribed by law.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ARUNDEL VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Small-Farm Allotments for Cash.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ARUNDEL VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Small-Farm Allotments to be sold on Deferred Payments.

FORSTER GORING,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land in Block I., Moeraki Survey District, County of Waitaki, not required for Public Use, authorized to be sold.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,

Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of June, 1884.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” it is enacted that, if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under that Act or any other Act or provincial ordinance, or otherwise however, for public works, is not required for public use, the Governor may, by an Order in Council, publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions therein set forth:

And whereas the Minister for Public Works has laid before the Governor the memorial referred to in the section aforesaid, praying the Governor, by an Order in Council, to cause such land to be sold:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities aforesaid, do hereby order and authorize the land described in the Schedule hereto to be sold and dealt with in the manner and subject to the conditions of the fourteenth and following sections of the above in part recited Act.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 43 acres 3 roods 20 perches, being portion of Sections Nos. 3, 1 of 5, and 2 of 5, Block I.; commencing at the north-western corner of said section. Bounded—Westerly and South-westerly by a public road, 2751, 818, 182, 148, and 831 links respectively; Southerly by a line, 358 links; Easterly by railway, 1645, 416, 1760, and 754 links respectively; Northerly by Section No. 1 to commencing point, 1332 links.

Also all that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 4 acres 3 roods 5 perches, being portion of Sections Nos. 1 of 5 and 2 of 5, Block I.; commencing at the south-western corner of said Section No. 2 of 5. Bounded—Southerly by a line, 291 links; Easterly and North-easterly by a public road, 831, 270, and 662 links respectively; Westerly by a public road to commencing point, 1625 links.

Be all the above areas and linkages either more or less; the several parcels of land being situate in the Moeraki Survey District, Provincial District of Otago, and are more particularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 11438, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

FORSTER GORING,

Clerk of the Executive Council.