Notice to Owners of Native Land under “The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882.”

“TE Ture Reiti i nga Whenua o te Karauna me nga Whenua Maori, 1882,” me te Ture Whakatikatika i taua Ture.

Ki te tangata nana, ki nga tangata ranei na ratou nga whenua kua whakahuatia i roto i nga rooru whakaatu i nga utu o nga whenua Maori, kua tukua atu nei ki nga poari takiwa e mau nei nga ingoa i roto i te Kupu Apiti ki tenei, i raro i nga tikanga o nga Ture kua whakahuatia i runga ake nei me era atu Ture katoa e pa ana e whai tikanga ana.

Notemea kua tukua mai he tono ki ahau Te Minita Whakahaere i nga Moni o Niu Tireni, e mau nei toku ingoa iraro iho nei, e nga poari takiwa e tetahi tangata ranei mo te taha ki a ratou, i raro i nga tikanga o “Te Ture Reiti i nga Whenua o te Karauna me nga Whenua Maori, 1882,” kia utua nga reiti e meingatia ana kia utua i runga i nga tikanga o aua rooru:

He panuitanga tenei ki a koutou ki ia tangata ki ia tangata o koutou, kia mohio ai koutou kua takoto nga rooru o nga whenua Maori ki nga tari o aua poari takiwa ko aua rooru he mea tuhi ki te reo Maori, a e whakaatu ana hoki i nga utu o nga whenua Maori kua whakahuatia i runga i aua rooru.

Na he tono tenei ki a koutou ki ia tangata ki ia tangata hoki o koutou nga tangata na ratou aua whenua kia utua e koutou aua reiti a te 14 o nga ra o Hune, 1885, i mua mai ranei o taua ra, me utu e koutou aua moni reiti i te tari o te poari o te takiwa i takoto ai aua whenua, tena te whakaaturanga kei te Kupu Apiti.

KUPU APITI.

Te Ingoa o te Poari Takiwa. Te Tari o te Poari Takiwa e utua ai nga Moni Reiti.

Rori Poata o Little River .. Birdling’s Flat.

Rori Poata o Invercargill .. Invercargill.

He mea tuhi nei toku ingoa i tenei te tekau o nga ra o Hune, 1885.

JULIUS VOGEL.

[TRANSLATION.]

THE Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882,” and the Amendment thereof.

To each and every the owner or owners of land described in the substituted valuation rolls of Native lands supplied to the local bodies, the names of which are set forth in the Schedule hereunder, under the provisions of the above Acts and all other Acts affecting the same or relating thereto.

WHEREAS demand having been made to me, the undersigned Colonial Treasurer of the Colony of New Zealand, in accordance with the provisions of “The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882,” by or on behalf of the said local bodies, for payment of the rates appearing to be payable under or by virtue of the said rolls:

: Notice is hereby given to you and each and every of you that rolls of Native lands are now deposited at the offices of the said several local bodies, which said rolls are in the Maori language, and show the rateable value of the Native lands therein mentioned or described.

And you and each and every of you, the owners of the said lands, are hereby required and directed to pay the said rates on or before the 14th day of June, 1885, such payment to be made by you at the office of the local body in whose district the lands affected are respectively comprised, and as noted in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Name of Local Body. Office of Local Body where Payment is to be made.

Little River Road Board. Birdling’s Flat.

Invercargill Road Board. Invercargill.

As witness my hand this tenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Alterations and Additions to the Scale of Fares and Charges in force on New Zealand Railways.

IN accordance with section 144 of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” I, Edward Richardson, Minister for Public Works, do hereby make the following alterations and additions to the scale of charges, to come into force on and after the fifteenth day of June, 1885:

PART II.—LUGGAGE, PARCELS, ETC.

PARCEL RATES.

Not exceeding. Not exceeding

Miles. 3 lb. 7 lb. 14 lb. 28 lb. 56 lb. 112 lb.

15 0 6 0 6 0 6 0 9 0 9 1 3

20 0 6 0 6 0 6 1 0 1 3 2 0

30 0 6 0 6 0 9 1 3 1 6 2 6

40 0 6 0 6 1 0 1 6 1 9 2 9

50 0 6 0 6 1 0 1 9 2 0 3 3

75 0 6 0 9 1 3 2 0 2 3 3 6

100 0 6 1 0 1 9 2 3 2 6 3 9

125 0 9 1 3 2 0 2 9 3 3 4 9

150 0 9 1 6 2 6 3 3 4 0 5 6

200 0 9 1 6 3 0 4 3 5 6 7 6

250 1 0 2 0 3 6 5 3 7 0 9 6

300 1 3 2 6 4 0 6 3 8 6 11 6

400 1 6 3 0 5 0 8 3 11 6 15 6

500 1 9 3 6 6 0 10 3 14 6 19 6

As witness my hand this third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,

Minister for Public Works.

Steam Service between New Zealand and Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, and Rarotonga.

ARTICLES of AGREEMENT made this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, between Alexander Bell Donald, Charles Allan Edenborough, and Richard Exham, trading under the style of Donald and Edenborough, Merchants, of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, and Rarotonga, one of the Cook Islands (hereinafter styled “the Contractors”), of the one part, and the Honourable Sir Julius Vogel, the Postmaster-General of the said Colony of New Zealand, on behalf of the Government of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of “The New Zealand Post Office Act, 1881,” of the other part, WITNESS that, for the considerations hereinafter mentioned, the Contractors, for themselves, their and each of their executors, administrators, and (permitted) assigns, do hereby jointly and severally covenant with the said Postmaster-General, and his successors in office (hereinafter styled “the Postmaster-General”),

1. That at all times during the continuance of this agreement, or so long as the service hereby agreed to be performed between Dunedin, in the Colony of New Zealand, and Tonga, one of the Friendly Islands, Samoa, one of the Navigator Islands, Tahiti, in the Society group, and Rarotonga aforesaid, ought to be performed in pursuance thereof, the Contractors will, in the manner hereinafter mentioned, provide and keep seaworthy, and in complete repair, a substantial and efficient steam-vessel for the said service.

2. The vessel to be employed under this agreement shall be the steamship chartered by the Contractors known as the “Janet Nicoll,” or such other steamship as may from time to time be approved of by the Postmaster-General for the purposes of this contract, and such steamship shall be always furnished while in actual use with all appropriate and necessary machinery, engines, apparel, furniture, stores, tackle, boats, fuel, lamps, oil for lamps and engines, tallow, provisions, anchors, cables, fire-pumps, and other proper means of extinguishing fire, lightning conductors, charts, chronometers, proper nautical instruments, medicines, and whatsoever else may be requisite for equipping the said vessel and rendering it constantly efficient for the service hereby agreed to be performed; and also manned and provided with competent officers, and with a sufficient number of efficient engineers, and a sufficient crew of able seamen and other men: to be in all respects, as to vessels, engines, equipments, officers, engineers, and crew, subject in the first instance, and from time to time at all times afterwards, to the approval of the Postmaster-General, or of such other competent person or persons as he shall at any time or times, or from time to time, authorize to inspect and examine the same.

3. The steamship to be employed under this agreement may proceed from Dunedin aforesaid to Tahiti and Raro-