790
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 36

Notice of Entry into Negotiations for Acquisition of Native Lands by Her Majesty.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance of the provisions of “The Native Land Purchases Act, 1892” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is hereby notified that negotiations by Her Majesty the Queen for the purchase or acquirement of the blocks of Native land which are more particularly described and mentioned in the Schedule hereto have been entered into prior to, or since, the passing of the said Act, and are still subsisting; and notice is hereby further given that from and after the date of the publication hereof it shall not be lawful for any person other than Her Majesty to purchase or acquire from the Native owners any right, title, share, or interest in the lands above mentioned unless and until this notice shall have been formally withdrawn under the provisions aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

*Estimated area.

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

A. J. CADMAN,
For Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Marlborough Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said one hundred and thirty-sixth section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and that the said lands may be selected on lease in perpetuity, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892”; and I do hereby declare that the rentals at which the said lands shall be leased shall be those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT. — MARLBOROUGH COUNTY. — OMAKA ESTATE.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

| 1 | VI. | Avon | 595 0 0 | 0 2 0 | 29 6 1 |
| 2 | " | " | 268 0 0 | 0 2 6 | 16 18 10 |
| 3 | " | " | 262 0 0 | 0 2 10 | 18 12 7 |
| 3 | " | " | 260 0 0 | 0 3 0 | 19 9 7 |
| 2 | I. | Taylor Pass | 160 0 0 | 0 4 1 | 16 6 8 |
| 4 | " | " | 176 3 0 | 0 3 7 | 15 18 10 |
| 5 | " | " | 186 3 0 | 0 4 1 | 19 1 3 |
| 6 | " | " | 160 3 0 | 0 3 10 | 15 11 2 |
| 7 | " | " | 157 2 0 | 0 3 11 | 15 12 10 |
| 8 | " | " | 172 0 0 | 0 3 9 | 16 4 11 |
| 9 | " | " | 342 0 0 | 0 2 7 | 22 5 9 |
| 10 | " | " | 457 0 0 | 0 2 10 | 32 0 10 |

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the owners of the lands described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of such lands contained in the Crown grants bearing date the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the fifty-second section of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Land Court, doth hereby order and declare that all restrictions imposed by the said Crown grants on the alienation of the said lands are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 50 acres, being Section 12, Block IV., Waitara Survey District, held under Crown grant dated 26th January, 1885, Registered No. 17181, in favour of Rutera te Whareahua, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage”; and

All that parcel of land, containing 50 acres, being Section 13, Block IV., Waitara Survey District, held under Crown grant dated 26th January, 1885, Registered No. 17188, in favour of Hakaraia Ngatiki, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage”; and

All that parcel of land, containing 12 acres 2 roods, being Section 14, Block IV., Waitara Survey District, held under Crown grant dated 26th January, 1885, Registered No. 17200, in favour of Mereana Taupo, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

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

R. J. SEDDON.