1376
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 67

FORMS OF TENDER, DECLARATION, AND COVER REFERRED TO ABOVE.

[Form of Tender.]

Tender for Lease of Land under the Perpetual-leasing System.

To the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Napier.
I, the undersigned, do hereby offer and tender as annual rental the sum of pounds shillings and pence (£ : : ) for Section , Block , District.
Dated this day of , 188 .

AUTHORITY TO ACT AS AGENT.

. This authority to be filled up, then torn off, and sent to agent of tenderer if unable to appear.
I HEREBY authorize to represent me at the Land Board on day of , 188 , when my tender for land on perpetual leasing is advertised to be opened, to make any selection of section or sections for me, to make all necessary payments on my behalf, and to receive and give effectual receipts for any deposits returnable to me.

Dated this day of , 188 .

(Name.)
(Address.)

[Form of Cover.]
On Public Service only.

TENDER FOR LAND UNDER THE PERPETUAL-LEASING SYSTEM.
Section. Block. District.
To the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Napier.

[Form of Declaration.]

I, A.B., of [Insert place of abode and occupation], do solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.
2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1885,” am tendering for the purchase [or is desirous of becoming the transferee or sublessee] of a lease [Here specify land].
3. That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and for the purposes of cultivation, and not, directly or indirectly, for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever.
4. That, including the said lands, I am not the owner, tenant, or occupier, directly or indirectly, either by myself or jointly with any other person or persons, of any lands anywhere in the colony exceeding in the whole six hundred and forty acres.
5. That I have not, within seven years from the date hereof, surrendered a lease with perpetual right of renewal of the lands for a lease whereof I am now tendering.
   And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

Declared at , this day of , 18 ,
before me— , Justice of the Peace.

A.B.

Gold Fields Notice.

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 Reefton on or before the 16th day of December, 1885.

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

SCHEDULE.

APPLICANT: Jacob McKenney. Style under which it is intended to conduct the business: “The North Venus Gold-Mining Company.” 16 acres 2 roods, Murray Creek, in the Nelson South-West Mining District.

Given under my hand, at Nelson, this twenty-third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

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

Native Land Court Notices.

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 18th day of November, 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 28th day of December, 1885.

SCHEDULE.

NAME by which land is known: Rewarewa. Native Land Court District wherein situate: Manawatu. Area: 335 acres.

Dated this 18th day of November, 1885.

J. E. MACDONALD,
Chief Judge.

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

Native Land Court Office,
Gisborne, 14th November, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court, to be held at Hastings, in the District of Gisborne, on the 4th day of December, 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 provisions 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.

W. GREY,
Registrar.