Mar. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 289

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Otago; as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. P.W.D. 16497, deposited in the office of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, this tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

JAMES MCKERROW.
J. P. MAXWELL.
W. M. HANNAY.

Additional Land taken at Waitaki Bridge Township for Purposes of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway.

A NOTIFICATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable, for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway, to take further land at Waitaki Bridge Township, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway :

Now, therefore, we, the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on us by “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling us in that behalf, do hereby notify and declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

ALL those several portions of land in the Provincial District of Otago, containing by admeasurement 22 acres, more or less, situate in the Waitaki Bridge Township, and being Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Block V., Sections Nos. 1 to 9 (both inclusive), Block X., Sections Nos. 1 to 8 (both inclusive), Block XI., the whole of Railway Street, that portion of Cross Street 250 links south-east from Railway Street, also that portion of Connell Street 250 links south-east from Railway Street, and Section No. 24, Block XIII., on the map of the said township. Bounded towards the north by the Waitaki River 2600 links, by Section No. 8 of Block VIII. 90½ links, by Section No. 10 of Block IX. 250 links; towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 1 to 10 of Block IX. 926½ links, by Cross Street 100 links, by Sections Nos. 10 to 18 of Block X. 900 links, by Connell Street 100 links, by Sections Nos. 9 to 15 of Block XI. 758 links, also by Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Block V. 350 links, and by Railway Reserve 220 links; on the south by Sections Nos. 1, 3, 4, and 5 of Block XIII. 1040 links, by Lowe Street, and by Sections Nos. 1 and 21, Block IX., also by South Street 392½ links, also by Terrace Street 280 links; towards the north-west by Railway Reserve 3750 links; and towards the west by Section No. 3 of Block V. 335 links, also by Sections Nos. 7 and 8 1140 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the said several portions of land are shown on the plan numbered 4530, deposited in the offices of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, this twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

JAMES MCKERROW.
J. P. MAXWELL.
W. M. HANNAY.

By-laws for New Zealand Railways.

AUCKLAND SECTION, ONEHUNGA BRANCH.

THE New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” do hereby repeal the by-laws for the management of the Onehunga Branch Railway (being one of the railways open for traffic in the Colony of New Zealand) dated the 11th February, 1890, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, 13th February, 1890.

The common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners was hereunto affixed, this twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, in the presence of

JAMES MCKERROW,
Chief Commissioner.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st January, 1890.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1891, the period of literature will be the period from 1800 to 1850, and the special books will be Milton’s Samson Agonistes, and Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound.

T. W. HISLOP.

Notice directing Attention to the Provisions of the Native Lands Frauds Prevention Acts on the Subject of Prohibited Dealings with Native Lands.

Native Office,
Wellington, 17th December, 1889.

SECTIONS 5, 6, and 7 of “The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1881 Amendment Act, 1888,” and section 3 of “The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Acts Amendment Act, 1889,” are, by direction of the Hon. the Native Minister, published for public information.

T. W. LEWIS,
Under-Secretary.

“THE NATIVE LANDS FRAUDS PREVENTION ACT 1881 AMENDMENT ACT, 1888.”—PROHIBITED DEALINGS WITH NATIVE LANDS.

5. It shall not be lawful for any person to negotiate, either on his own behalf or as agent or trustee for any other person, for the purchase, conveyance, transfer, lease, exchange, or occupation of any Native land, or of any land, or any estate, right, title, or interest therein, or for any agency or authority to deal therewith or in relation thereto, unless such land is now owned under Crown grant, memorial of ownership, or certificate of title issued under either a Native Land Court Act or a Land Transfer Act to not more than twenty Natives, or unless such land shall hereafter become and shall have been so owned for forty days.

6. Forthwith upon any land hereafter becoming owned by not more than twenty Natives as aforesaid, it shall be a duty of the Chief Judge to notify the same in the Gazette, and also the name and description of the land, and the time when the said forty days will expire.

7. Any person who, on his own behalf or as agent or trustee for any other person, shall take or accept any conveyance, lease, transfer, gift, or other assurance from any Native, whether to himself solely or to himself and others, of any Native land or of any land not heretofore owned as aforesaid, or which, becoming hereafter so owned, shall not have been owned for forty days as aforesaid, or who shall be a party to any negotiation, agreement, contract, or promise for the making to him, or to him and others, or to any other person, of any such conveyance, lease, transfer, gift, or other assurance, or for the accepting or giving of any such agency or authority, shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds, to be recovered in a summary way.

Every such conveyance, lease, transfer, gift, and other assurance, agreement, contract, promise, agency, and authority shall, except as hereinafter provided, be illegal and void:

Provided that no person shall be convicted of any offence aforesaid except on the information or complaint of some person duly authorised in that behalf by the Governor, either generally or in respect of some particular case.

“THE NATIVE LANDS FRAUDS PREVENTION ACTS AMENDMENT ACT, 1889.”

3. The words “to not more than twenty Natives” in section five of “The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1881 Amendment Act, 1888” (hereinafter called the said Act), shall not apply to land owned by Natives under Crown grant, memorial of ownership, or certificate of title under either a Native Land Court or a Land Transfer Act issued before the passing of the said Act, or in respect to which an order had been made by the Native Land Court for the issue of a Crown grant, certificate of title, or memorial of ownership, or an order under “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” declaring the owners or person entitled on investigation of title or partition, before passing of the said Act:

(1.) If such land does not exceed five thousand acres in area; or

(2.) If a contract in writing for the alienation of such land of any area, or any part thereof, had been made and not completed before the passing of the said Act.

And the said section shall be read and construed in respect of such lands as though the said words “to not more than twenty Natives” had been omitted therefrom: Provided that nothing in the said fifth section shall be deemed to prevent a lease of land so owned or the subject of such order as aforesaid not exceeding ten thousand acres.