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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 65

I shall be obliged if you will inform all owners and masters of vessels who clear from your port for these seas of this fact.

I have, &c.,
HENRY A. SYMONDS,
British Vice-Consul.

The Collector of Customs, Auckland.

Queen Street, Auckland.

DEAR SIR,—I beg to report the existence of a new island (volcano). The position is in lat. 20° 20′ S., long. 175° 25′ W., by good bearings, afterwards confirmed by the bearing from the anchorage, Nukualofa, from which it bears N.N.W. ¼ N. forty-nine miles. On the 16th October it was about two miles long and from 100 to 200 feet high, but continually increasing in size from matter thrown up by a crater on the E.N.E. side of the island.

We first observed it on the morning of the 16th October, and ran within eight miles of it for the purpose of verifying its position. It was not safe to go nearer as the wind was falling light and the current setting towards it, but being a clear day we were able to get good bearings and note its exact position. It was still active when we left Tonga on the 21st October, and by last reports was 300 feet high and four miles long.

I have, &c.,
W. S. LANE,
Master Schooner “Maile.”

To the Collector of Customs.

Notice under “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883.”

WHEREAS the estate and interest of Irepoama Rakatairi and Erieta Whakia, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, in the land described in the Schedule hereto, is vested in Paramena te Oneone and Henare Tomoana, as trustees under the provisions of “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867,” and the several amendments thereof, subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such land, and application has been made for the removal of such restrictions:

It is hereby notified that it is intended, immediately after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of this notice in the Gazette and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the alienation of the said land in respect of the interests aforesaid, in order that the said land may be leased by the said trustees.

Dated at Wellington, this eighteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five,

J. BALLANCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, containing by admeasurement 10,908 acres, more or less, situate near Napier, in the District of Ahuriri, and called or known as the Petane Block, and numbered 24N; saving and excepting thereout a reserve of 600 acres or thereabouts, situate at Nukurangi.

Notice under “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883.”

WHEREAS the estate and interest of Niheta Timoti and Hami Timoti, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, in the land described in the Schedule hereto, is vested in Timoti Puketutu, as trustee under the provisions of “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867,” and the several amendments thereof, subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such land, and application has been made for the removal of such restrictions:

It is hereby notified that it is intended, immediately after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of this notice in the Gazette and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the alienation of the said land in respect of the interests aforesaid, in order that the said lands may be leased by the said trustees for a term of twenty-one years.

Dated at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
(for the Minister for Native Affairs.)

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land situated in the District of Kaipara, containing 119 acres, be the same a little more or less, and being known by the name of Rarapuka No. 2. Bounded towards the East by a line, 1480 links; towards the South-east by the Kaituna Block, 5482 links; towards the South-west by lines, 1893 links and 433 links; and towards the North-west by the Pahunuhunu Block, 25 links, 2423 links, and 4500 links.

Notice under “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883.”

WHEREAS the estate and interest of Ani Ripiha and Akuhata Ripiha, half-caste Natives of New Zealand, in the land described in the Schedule hereto, is vested in George Lipsey and Ema Lipsey, as trustees under the provisions of “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867,” and the several amendments thereof, subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such land, and application has been made for the removal of such restrictions:

It is hereby notified that it is intended, immediately after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of this notice in the Gazette and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the alienation of the said land in respect of the interests aforesaid, in order that the said lands may be leased by the said trustees.

Dated at Wellington, this fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land situated in the Survey District of Te Aroha, containing 2 acres 1 rood 18 perches, be the same a little more or less, being part of Section 17 of Block IX. on the map of the Te Aroha Survey District. Bounded towards the North-east by other part of said Section 17, 766·4 links; towards the South-east by Emma Street, 488·9 links; towards the South by a road laid out on the bank of the Waihou River; and towards the North-west by other part of said Section 17, 41 and 332·2 links: be the said admeasurements a little more or less. And also all that strip of land situate in the said Te Aroha Survey District, containing 30·8 perches, be the same more or less, and being part of said Section 17 of Block IX., and being of the width of 15 links. Bounded towards the East by other part of said Section 17, Block IX. aforesaid, 40·7, 476·1, 211·3, and 560·7 links; and towards the West by other part of said Section 17, Block IX., aforesaid, 560, 209, 478, and 36 links: be the said admeasurements a little more or less; the said two pieces of land being part of the land comprised and described in Vol. xxiv, folio 166, of the Register-book of the District of Auckland.

Notice under “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883.”

WHEREAS the estate and interest of Tiaki Paora, Te Maenga Paora, and Rihi Paora, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, in the land described in the Schedule hereto, is vested in Whakatere te Kaeoa and Wiremu Tamahana, as trustees under the provisions of “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867,” and the several amendments thereof, subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such land, and application has been made for the removal of such restrictions:

It is hereby notified that it is intended, immediately after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of this notice in the Gazette and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the alienation of the said land in respect of the interests aforesaid, in order that the said lands may be leased by the said trustees for twenty-one years from the 25th May, 1885.

Dated at Wellington, this twenty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(for the Minister for Native Affairs.)

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land at Te Kaha, in the District of Bay of Plenty, in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing 2 roods 14 perches, more or less, and known by the name of Waihirere.

Notice under “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883.”

WHEREAS the estate and interest of Te Mananui Mahuri, aboriginal native of New Zealand, in the land described in the Schedule hereto, is vested in Hoani Meihana te Rangiotu and Irihapeti Mahuri, as trustees under the provisions of “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867,” and the several amendments thereof, subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such land, and application has been made for the removal of such restrictions:

It is hereby notified that it is intended, immediately after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of this notice in the Gazette and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the alienation of the said land in respect of the interests aforesaid, in order that the said land may be