JAN. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 13

PARTICULARS of the Estates of Deceased Persons which have been placed under the Charge of the Public Trustee for Management during the Month of December, 1886.

Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of January, 1887.

R. C. HAMERTON,
Public Trustee.

"The Native Land Administration Act, 1886."

Native Office,
Wellington, 4th December, 1886.
To Persons having dealings with Natives for Land incomplete on the 1st day of January, 1887.

ATTENTION is hereby called to the provisions of sections 1, 24, and 25 of "The Native Land Administration Act, 1886," which said sections are set out in Schedule A herein.

A printed form of the notification mentioned in the said section 24 may be obtained on application to a Registrar of the Native Land Court.

The notification should be signed in duplicate by the person making it, and should contain such particulars of the purchase or lease intended to be notified as will show clearly the nature of the transaction alleged.

One of such duplicates should be delivered to a Commissioner under the above Act, and the other to the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court. Such delivery may be personal or by post in a registered letter.

The burden of proving delivery will be upon the party asserting it.

Notifications under section 24 must be so delivered as to reach the Commissioner and the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court respectively before the 1st day of April, 1887.

SCHEDULE A.

SECTION 1. The Short Title of this Act is "The Native Land Administration Act, 1886." It shall come into operation on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

Section 24. A person who may claim to have heretofore purchased or leased the share or interest of some out of several owners of land (the title whereof was not at the time of such purchase or lease subject to any restriction precluding such purchase or lease) may, within three months after the coming into operation of this Act, notify the fact of such purchase or lease to the Commissioner and also to the Chief Judge of the Court, and it shall thereupon be a duty of a Judge to inquire into the circumstances thereof, and who, if satisfied that there had been a purchase or lease as alleged, and that the transaction was bonâ fide, and that a fair value or rent was given or reserved, may give his certificate to that effect to the person alleging himself to be such purchaser or lessee, who shall transmit the same to the Commissioner.

Section 25. Upon the grant of such certificate the person therein named,—

(a.) If a purchaser, shall be the owner of the share of his vendor in the land the subject of such purchase, and shall be entitled to have partitioned to him in severalty such part of the land as the Court may deem just;

(b.) Or he may within one month after the date of the certificate give notice to the Commissioner that he is desirous of purchasing the shares or interests which he has not already acquired, and in such case he may, on obtaining a certificate from a Judge that such Judge is satisfied that he had, before the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, obtained the signature of one or more owner or owners to a writing purporting or agreeing to convey the share or interest of the persons signing, at any time within twelve months from the said first day of July, but not afterwards, purchase all or any of such shares or interests.

If all such outstanding shares or interests are not purchased, he shall be entitled to have partitioned to him such part of the land as the Court may deem just;

(c.) If a lessee, shall be entitled to have the share of his lessors in the land comprised in his lease ascertained,
and partition made thereof to such lessors, and shall be entitled to hold his lease subject to the terms thereof until its expiry;

(d.) Or he may, within one month after the date of the certificate, give notice to the Commissioner that he is desirous of obtaining a lease of all or some of the owners who have not already granted him a lease, and in such case he may, on obtaining a certificate from a Judge that such Judge is satisfied that he had, before the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, obtained the signature of one or more owner or owners to a writing purporting to be or agreement to grant a lease of the land or of the share or interest of the person signing, at any time within twelve months from the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, but not afterwards, obtain a lease of all or any of such shares or interests for the same term as he holds the shares or interests acquired before the coming into operation of this Act. If a lease of all such outstanding shares or interests is not acquired within the said twelve months, he shall be entitled to have the shares of his then lessors ascertained and partition made thereof, and shall be entitled to hold his lease subject to the terms thereof until its expiry; and

It shall be a duty of the Court to effect such partitions as aforesaid, the purchaser or lessee in whose interest it is made paying all Court fees and the charges for survey in respect of the land the subject of such purchase or lease.

T. W. LEWIS,
Under-Secretary.

Land Transfer Act Notices.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1885," unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same in each case within one calendar month next after date of Gazette containing this notice.

Part of Allotments 3 and 4, Block II., Township of Mornington.—WILLIAM WHYTE, Applicant. Occupied by Alexander Watson and Cresser Hardcastle. No. 3737.

Part of Allotment 9, Block II., Township of Mornington.—CHARLES FIELD, Applicant. Occupied by Mrs. Morris and William Forsyth. No. 3738.

Part of Allotment 7, Block II., Township of Mornington.—ARABELLA JEFFREYS VALPY, Applicant. Occupied by Applicant. No. 3739.

Part of Allotment 6, Block II., Township of Mornington.—DONALD MacLEOD, Applicant. Occupied by Mrs. Robert Spray. No. 3740.

Part of Allotment 8, Block II., Township of Mornington.—WILLIAM STEWART, Applicant. Occupied by Henry Townley. No. 3741.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 30th day of December, 1886, at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin.

H. TURTON,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of "The Land Transfer Act, 1885," unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one month from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.