6. 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.

7. Each applicant for a deferred-payment section in the 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. 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-six.

8. The purchaser of any lands described in the Schedule, upon the full payment of the purchase-money, 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.

SCHEDULE.

VILLAGE SETTLEMENT, OXFORD SURVEY DISTRICT.

Small-farm Allotments on Deferred Payments.

Reserve 2331 (in red).

Section. Reserve. Area. Upset Price per Acre.

17 2331 50 0 0 3 10 0
17A " 50 0 0 3 10 0
18 " 50 0 0 3 10 0
21 " 50 0 0 3 0 0
21A " 50 0 0 3 0 0
22 " 50 0 0 3 0 0
22A " 50 0 0 3 0 0
29 " 50 0 0 3 0 0
29A " 50 0 0 3 0 0

FORSTER GORING,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting Reserves in the Ashley Road Board.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,

Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of July, 1885.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto were reserved for gravel-pits: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said lands in the Road Board of the Ashley District:

Now, therefore, His Excellency 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 of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the said reserves shall become vested in the Road Board of the Ashley District, in trust, for gravel-pits.

SCHEDULE.

No. of Reserve. Area. No. of Reserve. Area.

1884 5 0 0 2231 5 0 0
1898 5 0 0 2250 5 0 0
1899 5 0 0 2251 5 0 0
2056 5 0 0 2252 5 0 0
2057 5 0 0 2253 5 0 0
2226 5 0 0 2336 5 0 0
2227 5 0 0 2337 5 0 0
2228 5 0 0 2338 5 0 0
2229 5 0 0 2541 2 0 2
2230 5 0 0 2580 10 0 0

FORSTER GORING,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting a Reserve in the Waikoikoi Public Library (Incorporated).

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,

Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of July, 1885.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto was reserved for a site for a public library: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said land in the Waikoikoi Public Library (Incorporated):

Now, therefore, His Excellency 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 of the powers and authorities vested in him by section four of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the said reserve shall become vested in the Waikoikoi Public Library (Incorporated), in trust, for a site for a public library.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Otago, containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, situate in Village Reserve, Waikoikoi, being Section No. 15 on the map of the said village reserve. Bounded towards the North by Section No. 14, 498-7 links; towards the East by Section No. 22, 200-6 links; towards the South by Section No. 16; 498-7 links; and towards the West by a road-line, 200-6 links.

FORSTER GORING,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Land taken for Portion of Wellington-Napier Railway (from 72 miles to 78 miles from Napier).

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,

Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of June, 1885.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by "The Public Works Act, 1882," and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency Sir 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, doth hereby order that the Government work known as the Wellington-Napier Railway (from seventy-two to seventy-eight miles from Napier) shall and may be constructed on or through the parcels of land mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate Area of each of the Parcels of Land required to be taken. Being Portion of Native Block Situated in Block Description. Survey District of

A. R. P. 81 3 31 Te Ohu Manawatu No. 3, X. and XV. Nativeland Norsewood. 43 3 29 Otanga Manawatu No. 4B, XIV. & XV. " " 44 3 22 Piripiri Manawatu No. 2, XIV. " "

All in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 12864, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

FORSTER GORING,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Delegating certain Powers under "The Mines Act, 1877."

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,

Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundredth section of "The Mines Act, 1877," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to such person or persons, being in the service of the Crown, as the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor by