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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

Sec- tion. Block. District. Area. Upset Price per Acre. Total Upset price.

69 III. Belmont S.D. (Pahautanui) 36 2 0 2 10 0 91 5 0
2 XIV. Akatarawa S.D. 152 1.24 0 12 6 95 5 0

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

JOHN McKENZIE, Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Hawke's Bay for Sale by Public Auction.

GLASGOW, Governor.

In pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirteenth section of "The Land Act, 1892," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction, and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

Waipawa County.

Section. Area. Upset Price. Section. Area. Upset Price.

ORMONDVILLE TOWNSHIP. Block II. A. R. P. £ s. d. 12 0 1 0 7 10 0 13 each each 16

Block III. 5 0 2 31 20 16 3 6 0 2 27 20 1 3 8 to 16 0 1 0 7 10 0 each each

Block IV. 8 0 1 0 7 10 0 12 each each 15

Block V. 8 0 1 0 7 10 0 9 each each 10 11 15 16 17

Block VI. 3 0 1 0 7 10 0 4 each each

Block VIII. 2 0 1 0 7 10 0 6 each each 7 8 9

ORMONDVILLE TOWNSHIP—continued. Block VIII.—continued. A. R. P. £ s. d. 10 0 1 0 7 10 0 12 each each 13

Block IX. 7 0 1 0 7 10 0 8 each each 9

Suburban Sections. Block VI. 11 0 3 29 9 6 3 Block VII. 5 1 0 26 11 12 6 Block X. 2 1 0 0 12 0 0 3 each each 4 7 0 2 36 7 5 0 8 1 2 26 16 12 6

Ormondville is a township in the Seventy-mile Bush. The railway-station is sixty-nine miles from Napier and thirty-one miles from Woodville.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

JOHN McKENZIE, Minister of Lands.

[No. 10

Commissioners appointed under "The Horowhenua Block Act, 1895."

To all to whom these presents shall come, and to JAMES CROSBY MARTIN, of Wellington, Esquire, ROBERT SMELT BUSH, of Auckland, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrates, and JAMES CRAIG McKERROW, of Morrison's Run, Greytown, Esquire, Settler, Greeting:

WHEREAS by "The Horowhenua Block Act, 1895," it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor in Council shall appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the circumstances connected with the sales or dispositions by the Natives of any or the whole of the blocks contained in the Horowhenua Block (hereinafter called "the said block"), comprising originally about fifty thousand acres, and as to the purchase-money paid for the same, and as to what trusts (if any) the same respectively were subject to; and also that the costs and expenses of such Commission shall be charged upon such of the lands as the Commission shall determine: And whereas by a certificate of title ordered to be issued by the Native Land Court at a Court holden at Foxton, in the Provincial District of Wellington, on the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, it was certified that Keepa te Rangihiwini was then the owner according to Native custom of the said block: And whereas it was at the same time ordered by the said Court that the names of the whole of the persons named in the First Schedule hereto (who are hereinafter referred to as "the registered owners") should be registered under the provisions of the seventeenth section of "The Native Lands Act, 1867," as the whole of the persons found to be interested in the said block: And whereas under the provisions of "The Native Land Division Act, 1882," the said block was during the months of November and December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, divided amongst the registered owners in the manner set out in the Second Schedule hereto: And whereas disputes have arisen from time to time as to the ownership of the said block and as to dealings therewith: And whereas the Court of Appeal of New Zealand has decided in effect that the division order under the provisions aforesaid, and the certificate of title founded thereon in respect of division number eleven of the said block, as in the said Second Schedule described, do not contain the names of the whole of the persons beneficially interested therein, and has, inter alia, quashed the said division order and certificate of title, and directed the Native Land Court to make such inquiries and orders as will perfect the title to the said division number eleven: And whereas it is alleged that undefined trusts or unfulfilled obligations and undertakings exist in respect of some of the other divisions of the said block: And whereas it is expedient that all such disputes, trusts, unfulfilled obligations, and undertakings should be inquired into, defined, and disposed of in accordance with equities of each case respectively:

Now know ye that I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power conferred upon me by "The Horowhenua Block Act, 1895," and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby appoint you, the said

JAMES CROSBY MARTIN,
ROBERT SMELT BUSH, and
JAMES CRAIG McKERROW

to be Commissioners for the purpose of inquiring into and reporting on the following matters in each case, namely:—

(1.) As to the existence and nature of any trust or equitable obligation or undertaking, express or implied, affecting the said block, or any part thereof, or the proceeds thereof, in the hands of Keepa te Rangihiwini and Warena te Hakeke (hereinafter called "the nominal owners"), or either of them;

(2.) What alienations prior to or subsequent to the division of the said block have been made by the nominal owners, or by either of them, and what moneys have come to their hands, or to the hands of either of them, by virtue thereof or by virtue of any other dealing with the said block, or any portion thereof;

(3.) What moneys (if any) are legally or equitably due or owing by the nominal owners, or either of them, to the registered owners, or to any other persons who shall be found by the Court to be entitled, and in what proportions, in respect of any dealing or other matter as aforesaid;

(4.) What moneys (if any) are legally or equitably due or owing by, or should be refunded by, the nominal owners, or either of them, to Her Majesty on account of any dealing or transaction with Her