I, John Edwin Macdonald, Chief Judge of the said Court, in exercise of the authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby order that a rehearing upon such claim be had on the 1st day of April next, at a sitting of the Court to be then holden at Shortland, in the district aforesaid.

Dated this 1st day of December, 1884.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Notice under "Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883."

I, JOHN EDWIN MACDONALD, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, do hereby, in compliance with the duty imposed upon me by "The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883," give notice that on the 6th day of January, 1885, the title to the land mentioned in the Schedule herein became, within the meaning of the said Act, ascertained; and, further, that dealings with the said land will cease to be prohibited by the provisions of the said Act on the 15th day of February, 1885.

SCHEDULE.

NAME by which land is known: Te Kohea No. 1. Native Land Court District wherein situate: Rotorua. Area: 15 perches.

Dated this 6th day of January, 1885.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

Sitting of the Native Land Court for the Subdivision of Hereditaments.

Native Land Court Office, Auckland, 22nd December, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court to be held at Mangonui, in the District of Mangonui, on the 18th day of February, 1885, will be heard the applications of the persons whose names appear in the first column for the subdivision of the hereditaments comprised in the Crown grants of the pieces of land the names of which appear in the second column, situate in the districts named in the third column.

And, in pursuance of the provision of section 7 of "The Native Land Division Act, 1882," all persons having in their possession any original grant or other instrument of title relating to any of the lands aforesaid are hereby ordered to produce the same at the said sitting of the Court.

Edw. HAMMOND,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

Sitting of Native Land Court.

Native Land Court Office, Auckland, 6th January, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that the session of this Court at Maketu, postponed from the 10th day of December, 1884, to the 18th day of February, 1885, will be opened on that date and continued to the 12th day of March, 1885, the date of the reopening of the Ohinemutu Court.

Edw. HAMMOND,
Registrar.

Gold Fields Notices.

Gold-Mining Leases cancelled.

Mines Department, Wellington, 6th January, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned gold-mining leases cancelled, and that the ground is now open for application as if no lease of the said ground had ever been applied for:

Robert Blanc and Patrick Walsh; 5 acres 1 rood 34 perches, Section 61, Block VII., Waitakere District. No. 950.

Thomas Butterworth and Henry Patton; 6 acres 2 roods 24 perches, Section 56, Block VI., Waitakere District. No. 926. Nelson South-West Mining District.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Mines.)

Gold-Mining Lease to be granted.

IN conformity with the thirty-seventh section of "The Mines Act, 1877," and with the regulations made under that Act for the granting of leases for gold-mining purposes, it is hereby notified that it is intended to grant a lease of Crown lands for gold-mining purposes to the applicant specified in the annexed Schedule, unless there shall be valid objections against such lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the grounds of objection, must be made in writing, and lodged with the Warden at Ahaura on or before the 3rd day of February, 1885.

Copy of the application made and plan annexed may be seen at the Warden's Office at Ahaura.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: Robert Carse. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: "Carse's Leasehold." 10 acres, adjoining and east of Gold-Mining Lease No. 719, Orwell Creek Flat, in the Nelson South-West Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Gold-Mining Lease.-Notice of Withdrawal of Application

Crown Lands Office, Nelson, 12th January, 1885.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned application for a gold-mining lease has been withdrawn, and that the ground is now open for application as if a lease of the same had never been applied for, viz.:-

No. 65, 4/84. Richard Morgan, for the Jupiter Quartz-Mining Company, dated the 9th December, 1884. 16½ acres, immediately between and adjoining the Red Queen Company's ground and the Wellesley Lease, at Seatonville, Mokihinui.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
(Holding delegated powers.)

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Land on Deferred Payments.

Crown Lands Office, New Plymouth, 30th December, 1884.

THE under-mentioned allotments of land will be open for selection, on terms of deferred payments, on and after Tuesday, the 27th January, 1885.

Selectors are relieved from the residential clause of "The Land Act, 1877."

C. D. WHITCOMBE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.