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and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the alienation of the said land.

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 St. 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 nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.
OKOHERIKI NO. 2D.

ALL that parcel of land in the Rotorua Survey District, in the Provincial District of Auckland, known by the name of Okoheriki No. 2D, containing by admeasurement 4,766 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the North generally by a railway-line known as Okoheriki No. 2E Block; towards the East by a road-line, 750 links; towards the South-east by Okoheriki No. 1 Block, 53479 links; towards the West by Okoheriki No. 2B Block, 13200 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

Terms and Conditions of Sale of the Village Settlement in Block VII., Invercargill Hundred, Southland Land District.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-seventh section of “The Land Act, 1885,” 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 in the New Zealand Gazette, 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 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 sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, at the Land Office, Invercargill.

3. The lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto shall be sold for cash immediately on purchase, and the lands enumerated in the Second 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, 1885.”

5. No person shall be allowed to acquire more than one section 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, the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

8. Each applicant for a deferred-payment section in the Second Schedule will be required to make the declaration prescribed by section one hundred and thirteen of “The Land Act, 1885,” and shall at the time of application deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the Southland 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 July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

9. The purchaser of any lands described in the First Schedule, upon the full payment of the purchase-money, and the purchaser of any lands described in the Second Schedule, upon the like payment, and also the fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by “The Land Act, 1885,” 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.
SMALL-FARM ALLOTMENTS FOR CASH.
Block VII., Invercargill Hundred.

• Subject to £1,500 valuation for saw-mill and plant on the land.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
SMALL-FARM ALLOTMENTS ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.
Block VII., Invercargill Hundred.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Defining the Purposes of Reserves.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands described in the Schedule hereto are now vested in Her Majesty, being lines of road which were closed by a Proclamation dated the twenty-second day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, issued under the hand of Thomas Fraser, Esquire, the Deputy Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon him by “The Road Diversion Ordinance, 1863:” And whereas it is desirable that the lands should be dealt with as provided by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881:”

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the sixth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” and all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, do hereby declare and define that the purposes for which the said lands shall, from and after the day of the date hereof, be dedicated shall be for public highways.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the County of Bruce, containing by admeasurement 9 acres 2 roods 13 perches, more or less, being a road-line, 100 links wide, forming the south-western boundary