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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 9

Notice is hereby given to you and each and every of you that rolls of Native lands are now deposited at the offices of the said several local bodies, which said rolls are in the Maori language, and show the rateable value of the Native lands therein mentioned or described.

And you and each and every of you, the owners of the said lands, are hereby required and directed to pay the said rates on or before the 5th March, 1890, such payment to be made by you at the office of the local body in whose district the lands affected are respectively comprised, and as noted in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness my hand, this nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Colonial Treasurer.

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.

Government Life Insurance Department.—Agency opened at Cullensville.

Government Life Insurance Department,
Wellington, 14th February, 1890.

AN agency of the above department will be opened at the

POST OFFICE, CULLENSVILLE,

as from the 24th February, 1890.

F. W. FRANKLAND,
Commissioner.

Officiating Ministers for 1890.—Notice No. 4.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1890.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend James McWilliam.
The Reverend John Hobbs.

Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

Persons registered as Patent Agents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1890.

IT is hereby notified that the following persons have been duly registered as Patent Agents under section 126 of “The Patent, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1889 :”—

CHARLES HEYWARD IZARD, of the firm of Bell, Gully, and Izard, Barristers and Solicitors, Wellington.

HENRY HUGHES, M.I.M.E., M.S.A., Wellington.

WILLIAM REEVE HASELDEN, of the firm of Haselden and Thompson, Barristers and Solicitors, Wellington.

HENRY HALL, Barrister and Solicitor, Wellington.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks.

Notice of Applications for Patents.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1890.

COMPLETE specifications relating to the under-mentioned applications for patents have been accepted, and are open to public inspection.

Any person may, at any time within two months from the date of this Gazette, give me notice in writing, in duplicate, of opposition to the grant of the patent, stating in such notice the particular grounds of his objection.

No. 4224.—EDWARD HUGHES ELLIOTT, of Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand, Engineer. An invention for improvements in apparatus for manufacturing barbed wire.

No. 4226.—LLOYD ALONZO KIMBALL, of Sydney, New South Wales, Manager of the Parke and Lacy Company, Machinery Merchants. An invention for improvements in steam-boilers.

No. 4228.—JAMES JOHNNY FOUGERE, of Warren Street, Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, Settler. An invention for improvements in syphon-flushing apparatus.