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,

Alteration and Addition to the Scale of Fares and Charges in force upon the New Zealand Railways.

THE New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise and pursuance of the powers conferred by "The Government Railways Act, 1887," do hereby make the following alteration in and addition to the scale of fares, rates, and charges on the New Zealand railways, to come into force on and after the 28th day of March, 1890:

PART IV.—LOCAL RATES.

WANGANUI SECTION.

Cement from Foxton to Longburn will be charged 7s. per ton, including wharfage at Foxton. Minimum consignment, 5 tons.

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

JAMES McKERROW,
J. P. MAXWELL,
W. M. HANNAY,

Railway Commissioners.

Rainfall for February, 1890.

Meteorological Office, Colonial Museum, Wellington, 15th March, 1890.

THE following is the rainfall for the month of February, 1890:

• No rain during month.

J. HECTOR,
Director.