Oct. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1093

SECOND SCHEDULE.

FORM OF DECLARATION TO BE MADE BY AN APPLICANT UNDER THE DEFERRED-PAYMENT SYSTEM.

I, , of , do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—

(1.) I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.

(2.) I am making the present selection of land under the system of deferred payments, under “The Land Act, 1885,” and its amendments, bond fide for my own exclusive use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever, and for the purpose of cultivation.

(3.) I am not the holder, either in my own name or in the name of any other person, of, and I am not beneficially interested in, any lands of the Crown within the colony under the deferred-payment system, or under the perpetual-lease system, or under any agricultural lease, to an amount which, added to the acreage comprised in this present application, would exceed 50 acres in extent.

(4.) And I am not the owner of 50 acres of land in all.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

(Signature.)

Taken and declared at , this day of , 18 , before me, , a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

Received on , 18 , at , Commissioner of Crown Lands.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

DECLARATION ON TAKING A PERPETUAL LEASE.

I, , of , in the Land District, and Colony of New Zealand, , do solemnly and sincerely declare—

(1.) That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.

(2.) That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1885,” is tendering for the purchase of a lease of Section , Block , District.

(3.) That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and for the purpose of cultivation, and not directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever.

(4.) That, including the said lands, I am not the owner, tenant, or occupier, directly or indirectly, either by myself or jointly with any other person or persons, of any lands anywhere in the colony exceeding in the whole 50 acres.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

(Signature.)

Declared at , this day of , 18 , before me, , a Justice of the Peace.

AMELIUS M. SMITH,
(For the Clerk of the Executive Council.)

Vesting a Reserve in the Manawatu County Council.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of September, 1890.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto was reserved for ferry purposes: And whereas it is expedient that the said land should be vested in the Manawatu County Council:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Chairman, Councillors, and inhabitants of the Manawatu County, in trust, for ferry purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Land District of Wellington, containing by admeasurement 59 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Block II., Sandy Survey District. Bounded on the north, north-west, and west by the Rangitikei River; on the east by Section No. 375, Block V., Te Kawai Survey District, and by a public road; on the south by Section No. 376 and by Run No. 24, Block II., Sandy Survey District: excluding the public road, 100 links wide, intersecting portion of above area; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Wellington.

AMELIUS M. SMITH,
(For Clerk of the Executive Council.)

Argyle Water-race vested in Buller County Council.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of September, 1890.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the sixth section of “The Local Bodies’ Finance and Powers Act, 1885,” and of every other power and authority enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby vest in the Chairman, Councillors, and inhabitants of the County of Buller all the rights of the Crown to the water-race known as the Argyle Water-race, at Charleston, and to all branch supply-races, dams, and other rights, as the same are more particularly enumerated in the Schedule hereto, to hold the said several rights, subject to the several conditions upon which the same are now held, and subject to the regulations in force for mining within the said county. And it is hereby declared that this Order in Council shall take effect on and after the first day of November next.

SCHEDULE.

ALL the rights, privileges, and easements granted or conferred upon Her Majesty the Queen by a certain deed of assignment or bill of sale absolute, dated the twenty-third day of April, 1879, and made between the Argyle Gold-mining and Water-supply Company (Limited), of the first part; John Eaton Haines, John Woodcock, Philip McCarthy, Thomas Sexton, Joseph Dromgool, and John George Hartill, all of Charleston, in the Provincial District of Nelson, therein described, of the second part; and Her Majesty the Queen, of the third part; and for which said assignment a Certificate of Registration No. 173 was issued by the Mining Registrar at Charleston on the twenty-fourth day of April, 1879, and also the several rights held under the following certificates and licenses, viz.: Certificate of Registration No. 37779, issued by the Mining Registrar at Charleston on the second day of November, 1883. License to construct and use a Water-race No. 14826, issued by the Mining Registrar at Charleston on the thirteenth day of December, 1883. Certificate of Registration No. 37876, issued by the Mining Registrar at Charleston on the thirty-first day of January, 1884. Certificate of Registration No. 37944, issued by the Mining Registrar at Charleston on the first day of March, 1884. License to construct and use a Water-race No. 17659, issued by the Mining Registrar at Charleston in the month of March, 1885. Certificate of Registration No. 45386, issued by the Mining Registrar at Charleston on the twenty-sixth day of February, 1885, and filed on the fourteenth day of March, 1885.

AMELIUS M. SMITH,
(For Clerk of the Executive Council.)

Land temporarily reserved in the Land Districts of Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, Wellington, and Canterbury.

ONSLOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two hundred and twenty-seventh section of “The Land Act, 1885,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Land Districts of Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, Wellington, and Canterbury, described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said Schedule specified.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND.

ALL that parcel of land in the Land District of Auckland, being called or known as Section No. 78A, Parish of Manurewa, and containing by admeasurement 12 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 78, Parish of Manurewa aforesaid, the abutment of a road, and again by Section No. 78, 1200 links; towards the east by Section