430.                                                             [No. 20.

     THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Notice is hereby given to you and each and every of you that rolls of Native lands are now deposited at the offices of the said several local bodies, which said rolls are in the Maori language, and show the rateable value of the Native lands therein mentioned or described.

And you and each and every of you, the owners of the said lands, are hereby required and directed to pay the said rates on or before the 3rd day of April, 1886, such payment to be made by you at the office of the local body in whose district the lands affected are respectively comprised, and as noted in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness my hand, this 31st day of March, 1886.
JULIUS VOGEL,
Colonial Treasurer.

Notice of Intention to take Land for Defence Works at Watts Peninsula, Wellington.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and “The Public Works Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1885,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of works for the purpose of defence at Watts Peninsula, near Wellington, and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken; and notice is further given that the plans of the said works and of the lands so required to be taken are deposited in the Public Works Office at Wellington, and are there open for inspection: And notice is hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said lands shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Wellington; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 13746, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon edged pink.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of March, 1886.
EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Tenders for leasing Seal Fisheries.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 16th March, 1886.

NOTICE is hereby given that separate tenders will be received at this office up to noon of the 3rd day of May next for leases for the sole right of seal-fishing on the portions of the foreshore and islands described in the Schedule hereto, in accordance with the regulations issued under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, dated the 9th day of February last, in pursuance of the provisions of “The Land Act, 1885,” and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 11th day of February, 1886.

Each tenderer must state the amount of rent which he is prepared to pay for a period of twenty-one years, with a right to a renewed lease for a like term subject to a new valuation, in accordance with the regulations aforesaid.

Each tenderer must submit the names of two approved sureties who are prepared to enter into a bond for the sum of £500 each, in addition to a bond for a similar amount to be entered into by the successful tenderer, that the provisions of the lease will be duly fulfilled.

The highest or any tender shall not necessarily be accepted.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.

SCHEDULE.

1. The whole of the foreshore of the Colony of New Zealand, including Stewart Island, the Snares, the Solander, and all other Islands in Foveaux Strait.

2. The whole of Chatham, Auckland, Campbell, and all other Islands between parallels 48½° and 53° of south latitude, and between 162° east and 173° west longitude.

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

WHEREAS the estate and interest of Kirimangu and Te Amo te Kehu, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, in the land described in the Schedule hereto, is vested in Uru te Angina and Aromona te Whio, 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 10th February, 1886.

Dated at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land situated in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing by admeasurement sixty-one and one-half acres, more or less, being that part of the section numbered 80 on the plan of the Waitotara District which lies to the north of the main road from Whanganui to Waitotara, running through the said section. Bounded towards the North by the Koheroa Stream; towards the East by Section No. 79; towards the South by the said main road; and towards the North-west by the Waitotara River.

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

WHEREAS the estate and interest of Hoani Kuru, Heni Whanau Kuru, Harata Kuru, and Hinerapa Kuru, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, in the land described in the Schedule hereto, is vested in Topi Kuru and Rawinia Tukeke, 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 for a term of twenty-one years from the 28th October, 1885.

Dated at Wellington, this twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that block of land, situate in the District of Porangahau, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, known as Mangaorapa, and containing by admeasurement 16,761 acres, little more or less. Bounded on the East by the Porangahau River; towards the South-east by the Mangaorapa Stream and by the Te Tohe Stream; towards the South by the Manawaangiangi Block, 300 links, 4068 links, and 14403 links; towards the West by lines, 18430 links, 1963 links, 1884 links, 2630 links, 2680 links, 820 links, 2279 links, 742 links, and 1220 links; towards the North-west by the Mangangarara Block, 3095 links, 6518 links, 1466 links, 579 links, 626 links, 2042 links, 868 links, 927 links, 567 links, 804 links, 12725 links, 12917 links, 1390 links, 672 links, 3390 links, 1113 links, and by the aforesaid Porangahau River.