Numb. 15. 433

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1897.

Tauranga Police Gaol ceased to be a Police Gaol.

(L.S.) GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Prisons Act, 1882," it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, declare that any prison or police gaol shall no longer be a prison or police gaol; and upon the gazetting of such Proclamation, or from and after any later day fixed in such Proclamation for the purpose, such prison or police gaol shall cease to be a prison or police gaol:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the above-recited power and authority, do hereby declare that, from and after the gazetting of this Proclamation, the police gaol at Tauranga, in the Provincial District of Auckland, shall cease to be a police gaol.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

T. THOMPSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Rural Lands in the Canterbury 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 March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, 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.

A

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT. — SELWYN COUNTY. — CHRIST-
CHURCH SURVEY DISTRICT.—OTARAKARO SETTLEMENT.

First-class Land.

Section. Block. Area. Lease in Perpetuity
Rent, 5 per cent.
Rent Half-yearly
per Acre. Rent.

1 X. A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d.
" 5 0 0 2 14 3 6 15 8
2 " 5 2 18 2 14 3 7 12 3
3 " 7 0 31 2 14 3 9 15 2
4 " 5 2 0 2 14 3 7 9 3
5 " 5 2 0 2 14 3 7 9 3
6 " 5 2 0 2 14 3 7 9 3
7 " 5 2 0 2 14 3 7 9 3

On Section 3 the sum of £1 19s. has also to be paid half-
yearly for the period of ten years, as interest and sinking
fund on buildings.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Southland 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 Thursday,
the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-seven, as the time at which the lands enumerated
in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction at
Invercargill; 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 re-
spectively.