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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.

Native Land Court Notices.

Notice under “The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1881 Amendment Act, 1888.”

I, HUGH GARDEN SETH SMITH, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, do hereby, in compliance with the duty imposed upon me by “The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1881 Amendment Act, 1888,” give notice that on the 25th day of November, 1889,” the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto became, within the meaning of the said Act, owned.

And, further, that dealings with the said land will cease to be prohibited by the provisions of the said Act, on the 4th day of January, 1890.

H. G. SETH SMITH,
Chief Judge.

Dated the 24th day of December, 1889.

SCHEDULE.

Name by which land is known: Subdivision 9, Block XII., Section 3, Lower Hutt. District wherein situate: Wellington. Area: 21·5 perches.

Partition of Land under the Native Land Court Acts 1886, 1888, and 1889.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, to be held at Greytown North, Wairarapa, on the 28th day of January, 1890, will be heard the applications of the persons whose names appear in the first column for the partition of the lands the names of which appear in the second column, and which are situate in the district named in the third column of the Schedule hereunder.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Crown Lands in Taranaki.

Crown Lands Office,
New Plymouth, 10th December 1889.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash, at the Crown Lands Office, New Plymouth, at 11 o’clock on Wednesday, the 29th January next.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Light bush land, a little fern and grass (gorse encroaching); 22½ miles south of New Plymouth, 4 miles north of Pungarehu, and 17 miles north of Opunake; on the main South Road, at its junction with the Warea Road. Government school here.

OPUNAKE SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 1, 4, 7, 10, 13 | I. | 4 3 0 | 4 0 0 |
| 2, 5, 8, 11, 15 | " | 4 2 0 | 4 0 0 |
| 24 | " | 0 2 0 | 4 0 0 |
| 21, 29, 32, 35, 38 | " | 4 3 0 | 4 0 0 |

Light bush land, fern and grass (gorse encroaching); 3 miles south of Pungarehu, and 10 miles north of Opunake, on the South Road, at its intersection with the Kahui Road. Government school here.

KAUPOKONUI SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 29, 30, 31, 41 | X. | 34 0 0 | 1 10 0 |
| 32, 33, 34, 42 | " | 34 0 0 | 1 10 0 |
| 35, 36, 37 | " | 20 0 0 | 1 10 0 |
| 38, 39, 44 | " | 24 0 0 | 1 10 0 |

Heavy bush land, lying 11 miles eastward of Opunake, 9½ miles north of Otakeho, and 12½ miles westward of Stratford, on the Opunake-Stratford Road, at its intersection with the Aurora Road.

WAIPUKU TOWNSHIP.

Sections 11 and 13 in grass, remainder grass and light bush; on the Mountain Road and railway, about half-way between Inglewood and Stratford. The Waipuku Railway-station is about half a mile from the township. Government school here.

EGMONT TOWNSHIP.

| 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51 | 1 2 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 2, 12, 22, 32, 42, 52 | 1 2 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 59 | 1 2 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80.. | 2 0 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 92, 93, 99, 100, 106, 107, 113, 114, 120, 125, 128, 129 | 3 0 0 | 3 0 0 |
| 94, 101, 108, 119, 121, 126, 130, 133, 136 | 2 1 0 | 3 0 0 |
| 159 | 0 1 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 160, 161 | 0 2 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 162, 165, 168, 171, 174, 177, 180 | 1 3 0 | 2 10 0 |
| 163, 164, 167, 169, 170, 172, 173, 175, 176, 178, 179, 181, 182 | 3 2 0 | 3 0 0 |
| 199, 202, 203 | 0 3 0 | 2 0 0 |
| 201, 204 | 0 2 0 | 2 0 0 |

The sections down to 136 are heavy scrub and bush; from 159 to 182, light scrub and grass; 199 to 204, fair grass land; 8 miles south of New Plymouth, and 4 miles north-west of Inglewood; on the Junction Road, at its intersection with the Egmont Road. The Egmont Road has been formed by the Government, and is passable for wheel-traffic from here to the Forest Reserve boundary-line, whence a track leads to the summit of Mount Egmont. A Government school has been opened at this township.