Nov. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1279

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

ROBERT STOUT,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Terms and Conditions of Sale of a Village Settlement in the Chatton District, Otago Land District.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this third day of November, 1885.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the twenty-first section of "The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879," it is enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon which the lands comprised in any village settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand has, by Proclamation, 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 village allotments for cash, and 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 ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, at the Land Office, Dunedin.

3. The lands enumerated in the First and Second Schedules hereto shall be sold for cash immediately on purchase, and the lands enumerated in the Third 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."

5. No person shall be allowed to acquire more than one allotment 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 in the First Schedule, offered for cash, the right to purchase the same shall be determined by auction amongst the applicants only; and if there should be more than one application for any allotment in the Second or Third Schedules, offered for cash or deferred payments, the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

8. Each applicant for a deferred-payment section in the Third 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 Otago 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.

9. The purchaser of any lands described in the First and Second Schedules, upon the full payment of the purchase-money, and the purchaser of any lands described in the Third 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.

VILLAGE ALLOTMENTS FOR CASH.