the Schedule hereunder, under the provisions of the above
Acts and all other Acts affecting the same or relating
thereto.
WHEREAS demand having been made to me, the under-
signed Colonial Treasurer of the Colony of New Zealand, in
accordance with the provisions of "The Crown and Native
Lands Rating Act, 1882," by or on behalf of the said local
bodies, for payment of the rates appearing to be payable
under or by virtue of the said rolls:
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 26th 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.
Name of Local Body.
Clifton County Council ..
Office of Local Body where
Payment is to be made.
Urenui.
As witness my hand, this twenty-first day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.
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 exe-
cute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of works
for the purpose of defence at Watts Peninsula, near Wel-
lington, 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:-
Approximate
Area of each of Being Section Situate Situated in the
the Parcels of or Portion in Survey District of
Land required of Section No. Block No.
to be taken.
A. R. P.
111 0 0 1 VII. Port Nicholson.
96 0 0 2 VII. Port Nicholson.
38 0 0 8 VII. Port Nicholson.
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 Welling-
ton, and thereon edged pink.
As witness my hand, at Wellington, this eighteenth
day of March, 1886.
EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.
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 Wai-
totara, running through the said section. Bounded towards
the North by the Koheroa Stream; towards the East by Sec-
tion 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 de-
scribed 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 Mangao-
rapa, 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 Manga-
ngarara 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.
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 ac-
cepted.
J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.