Mar. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 327

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.

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.

Crown Lands Notices.

Land District of Canterbury.—Sale of Lake Ellesmere Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Christchurch, 11th March, 1890.

IN pursuance of the provisions of “The Ellesmere Lake Lands Act, 1888,” the under-mentioned lands, which were not sold at auction on the 12th November, 1889, will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash, at the upset prices noted, at the Crown Lands Office, Christchurch, at 11 o’clock a.m., on Wednesday, the 16th April, 1890.

Purchasers will have to pay one-fifth of the total price on the fall of the hammer, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

JOHN H. BAKER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

BLOCK III.

| 2 | 118 0 4 | 3 0 0 | 354 1 6 |
| 3 | 100 0 6 | 2 10 0 | 250 1 10 |
| 4 | 87 2 29 | 2 10 0 | 219 4 1 |
| 7 | 87 2 35 | 2 10 0 | 219 6 0 |
| 8 | 107 0 2 | 3 0 0 | 321 0 7 |

BLOCK IV.

| 1 | 104 3 10 | 3 0 0 | 314 8 9 |
| 2 | 104 3 10 | 2 10 0 | 262 0 7 |
| 3 | 104 3 10 | 2 0 0 | 209 12 6 |
| 4 | 127 0 8 | 1 0 0 | 127 1 0 |
| 8 | 199 2 23 | 1 10 0 | 299 9 4 |
| 9 | 174 2 38 | 2 0 0 | 349 9 6 |
| 11 | 119 0 16 | 3 10 0 | 416 17 0 |
| 12 | 119 0 16 | 3 0 0 | 357 6 0 |
| 13 | 142 1 24 | 2 10 0 | 356 0 0 |
| 16 | 43 0 35 | 5 0 0 | 216 1 10 |
| 17 | 71 1 19 | 5 0 0 | 356 16 9 |
| 18 | 93 3 27 | 5 0 0 | 469 11 10 |

This land is all light, sandy soil, principally adapted for grazing purposes only, though probably some of the better land is suitable for root-crops. The greater part of the flat is covered with self-sown rye-grass, and is well known for its grazing capabilities. Artesian water can, it is believed, be obtained in any part of the flat. An artesian well was sunk many years ago on Section 34, Block II., near the sandhill, in the middle of the flat, and is still flowing. Section 36, Block II., adjoining the Little River Railway-line, is covered with splendid rye-grass. Sections 1, 2, and 3, Block IV., on the main road, include part of the same rye-grass flat, and have all some ground suitable for building on. Sections 4, 8, 9, and 13, Block IV., are covered with the lake-weed, growing on a sandy bottom, but are considered capable of improvement if the lake-water is kept off them. The rest of the sections, both in Blocks II., III., and IV., especially those fronting the long straight road, on the ridge known as the base-line ridge, are all more or less covered with rye-grass, affording good pasturage, and carry a large amount of stock. Sections 2 to 8, Block II., are wetter than the rest of the flat, but are all capable of being drained; they do not at present, however, afford such good pasturage as some of the other sections. The greater part of Section 41, Block II., is a sandhill.

The whole of the land is within three and a half miles of either the Greenpark or the Rabbit Island Railway-stations, on the Little River Railway. The Ellesmere Flat is situated