SCHEDULE.

WAIKATO COUNTY.

Parish of Tamahere.

Description of Land.—Lot 156, about 6 acres dry land; Lot 157, about 12 acres dry land; Lot 158, about 5 acres dry land; Lot 159, about 1 acre dry land; Lot 160, about 6 acres dry land; Lot 161, about 12 acres dry land; Lot 162, about 2 acres dry land; Lot 163, about 10 acres dry land; Lot 164, about 15 acres dry land. The remainder of these lots all swamp; soil first class.

WAITEMATA COUNTY.

Parish of Waiwera.

172 | 2 0 17 | 6 15 0

Subject to £400 for improvements.

Terms of sale: One-fourth of purchase-money to be paid at time of sale, and the balance within one month thereafter, otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land shall thenceforward be null and void. Crown-grant fee to be paid on completion of purchase.

NOTE.—Maps of the above lands may be seen, and further particulars obtained, on application at this office.

Land for Sale on Deferred Payment and for Cash, Canterbury.

Crown Lands Office,

Christchurch, 4th December, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned lands will be sold, as follows:—

DEFERRED-PAYMENT LAND,

Situate on the North Bank of the River Waitaki. Will be open for application, at the Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru, on Monday, the 2nd March, 1885:—

LAND TO BE OFFERED FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR CASH,

At the Courthouse, Waimate, on Tuesday, the 24th March, 1885, at 12 o'clock noon:—

Rural Section 35567, situate at Elephant Hill Creek, County of Waimate, 15 acres 3 roods. Upset price, £2 per acre.

Plans may be seen at the Land Offices, Christchurch and Timaru; and, after the 1st January next, at the principal Railway Stations and Post Offices in this provincial district.

WALTER KITSON,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land withdrawn from Sale open for Application.

Crown Lands Office,

Invercargill, 20th November, 1884.

NOTICE is hereby given that Section 8, Block III., Centre Hill District, having been withdrawn from sale

on deferred payments, will be open for application, as ordinary rural land, at £1 per acre, at the Land Office, Invercargill, on Wednesday, the 21st February, 1885.

J. SPENCE,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Land Court Notice.

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 14th day of January, 1885, the title to the lands mentioned in the Schedule herein became, within the meaning of the said Act, ascertained; and, further, that dealings with the said lands will cease to be prohibited by the provisions of the said Act on the 23rd day of February, 1885.

SCHEDULE.

NAME by which land is known: Whakatoringaringa A. Native Land Court District wherein situate: Rotorua. Area: 3 roods 2 perches.

Name by which land is known: Whakatoringaringa B. Native Land Court District wherein situate: Rotorua. Area: 1 acre 2 roods 13 perches.

Dated this 15th day of January, 1885.

J. E. MACDONALD,

Chief Judge.

Application for Rehearing of Claim granted.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:

BAY OF ISLANDS DISTRICT.

IN the matter of a decision of the Court given at Kawakawa, in the said district, on the 4th day of May, 1883, upon the hearing of a claim for the investigation of title to land situate in the said district, and known as "Punakitere No. 2;" and in the matter of the several applications made to this Court in writing, within three months after such decision was given, by Natives thinking themselves aggrieved thereby, for a rehearing upon the aforesaid claim:

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 12th day of March, 1885, at a sitting of the Court to be then holden at Herd's Point, Hokianga, in the said district.

Dated this 9th day of July, 1883.

J. E. MACDONALD,

Chief Judge.

Application for Rehearing of Claim dismissed.

NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND:

GISBORNE DISTRICT.

IN the matter of a judgment of the Court given during a session opened at Hastings, in the said district, on the 8th day of July, 1884, upon the hearing of a claim to succeed to the interest of Porikapa in a block of land situate in the said district, and known as "Tapairu;" and in the matter of the application of Nopera Kuikainga for a rehearing upon such claim:

I, John Edwin Macdonald, Chief Judge of the said Court, and in exercise of the authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby dismiss such applications.

Dated this 19th 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, 20th January, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court to be held at Ohinemutu, in the District of Rotorua, on the 12th day of March next, 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.

Edw. HAMMOND,

Registrar.