Mar. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 323

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road to Cruickshank’s Siding, on the Wellington-Napier Railway.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road to Cruickshank’s Siding, on the Wellington-Napier Railway, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken; and notice is further given that the plan of the said road and of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post Office at Upper Hutt, and is 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 land shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, 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 parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Wellington; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 16408, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

THOS. FERGUS,
Minister for Public Works.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 14th March, 1890.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders for the Makarau Contract of the Helensville Northwards Railway is published for general information.

THOS. FERGUS,
Minister for Public Works.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
J. McLean and Sons, Auckland .. .. 26,616 0 0

Declined.
J. Cheyne and Co. .. .. 29,783 0 0
Jones and Peters, Palmerston North .. 30,284 6 0
M. Danaher, Auckland .. .. 31,870 0 0
J. Saunders, Wellington .. .. 32,520 0 0
J. and A. Anderson, Christchurch .. 33,227 4 4
Coates and Metcalf, Hamilton .. .. 33,244 1 9

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1890.

THE following notices of elections of Members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

Mount Wellington Road District, County of Eden:
Frederick Ireland.

Kumeroa Road District, County of Waipawa:
James Storrie.

Whareama Road District, County of Wairarapa North:
William Stickle.

“The Native Land Court Acts Amendment Act, 1889.”

WE, the undersigned WORLEY BASSETT EDWARDS, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and JOHN ORMSBY, the Commissioners appointed pursuant to the provisions of the twentieth section of “The Native Land Court Acts Amendment Act, 1889,” do hereby appoint the office in the Government Buildings, at the City of Wellington, of the Registrar of the Native Land Court for the District of Wellington, as the place where applications for inquiry under the provisions of the said Act will be received on our behalf.

All such applications must be made within six months after the first publication of this notice.

Applications for inquiry must be in the form prescribed by the rules made by us, pursuant to the provisions of the said Act, and there shall be paid on the lodging of such applications the fees prescribed by the said rules.

Dated at the City of Wellington, this 19th day of March, 1890.

W. B. EDWARDS, \
JOHN ORMSBY, \ Commissioners.

Rules made under “The Native Land Court Acts Amendment Act, 1889.”

WE, the undersigned, Worley Bassett Edwards, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and John Ormsby, the Commissioners appointed pursuant to the provisions of the twentieth section of “The Native Land Court Acts Amendment Act, 1889,” do hereby make the following rules pursuant to the powers vested in us by the said Act.

Dated at the City of Wellington, this 19th day of March, 1890.

W. B. EDWARDS, \
JOHN ORMSBY, \ Commissioners.

RULES.

1. All applications for inquiry shall be left at the office, in the Government Buildings, in the City of Wellington, of the Registrar of the Native Land Court for the District of Wellington, the place which has been appointed by the Commissioners as the place where applications for inquiry will be received on their behalf.

2. Every such application shall be in the Form A in the First Schedule hereto, or as near thereto as the nature of the claim will admit, and shall be written or printed in English, and there shall be annexed thereto a translation thereof into Maori.

3. Every such application shall describe the land in respect of which such application is made, and, if any interest less than the whole in such land shall be the subject of such application, shall describe the nature of such interest.

4. Every such application shall have annexed thereto certified copies of the original certificate of title or memorial of ownership, or other instrument of the Native Land Court, for the land in respect of which such application is made, and of every plan thereon, and of every instrument in writing or order of the Native Land Court and other document upon which the claimant relies in support of such claim, and of every attestation, certificate, translation, declaration, and other writing indorsed upon or appended to every such instrument, order, and other document.

5. Every such application shall state a place, to be called the address for service, within the town nearest to the land the subject of such application in which circuit sittings of the Supreme Court are held, at which any notice required or authorised by these rules, or directed by the Commissioners to be given to the applicant, may be left.

Any notice left at such place shall be deemed to be duly served upon the applicant.

6. No one application shall include land or any interest in land which is or was before the transaction in respect of which the application is made held under more than one certificate of title, memorial of ownership, or other instrument of title of the Native Land Court.

7. Notice of every such application shall be served upon every Native whose interest in such land is sought to be affected by such application, or upon his successors, in manner hereinafter provided.

8. Every such notice shall be in the Form B in the Schedule hereto, or as near thereto as the case will admit, and shall comply with the rules hereinafter contained with respect to notices.

9. Every such notice shall be published at least three times by the applicant in the Gazette and Kahiti, and also in at least one newspaper published in the district within which the land the subject of such application is situate, and, if there shall be no such newspaper, then in some newspaper published in the nearest district in which a newspaper shall be published. The first publication of such notice shall be made as soon as reasonably may be after such application has been lodged, and the last publication of such notice shall not be earlier than fifteen days nor later than eight days before the day appointed for the hearing of such application.

10. A certified copy of every such application, and of every document and other thing required by these rules to be annexed thereto, shall be deposited by the applicant with the Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court nearest to the land the subject of such application, and shall there be open for public inspection until the day fixed for hearing such application, at all times during the hours when the office of such Clerk shall be kept open, without payment of any fee.