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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

by Sections Nos. 147, 146, 143A, 142, 129, and 128 of the same parish, by Allotment No. 44 of Section No. 1 of the same parish, by a public road, and by Sections Nos. 100 and 99 of the Parish of Waipipi aforesaid; towards the south-east by Section No. 8 of the Parish of Waiuku West; and towards the south-west by the Tasman Sea to the point of commencement.

Description of land: Open land, mostly sand-hills, situate on the West Coast, about five miles from Waiuku.

Cash price, 5s. per acre; occupation with right of purchase, rent, 3d. per acre per annum; lease in perpetuity, rent, 2'4d. per acre per annum.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

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

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

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, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government 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-second 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.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—GERALDINE COUNTY.

FIRST-CLASS AGRICULTURAL LAND.

Opihi Survey District.—Rakitairi Settlement.

| 1 | XII. | 21 0 21 | 6 6 | £ 3 8 8 |
| 2 | " | 20 0 0 | 6 6 | 3 5 0 |
| 3 | " | 10 0 0 | 6 6 | 1 12 6 |
| 4 | " | 10 0 0 | 6 6 | 1 12 6 |
| 5 | " | 15 0 10 | 6 6 | 2 8 11 |
| 6 | " | 14 0 0 | 6 6 | 2 5 6 |
| 7 | " | 4 0 0 | 2 0 | 0 4 0 |
| 8 | " | 10 0 0 | 9 0 | 2 5 0 |
| 9 | XVI. | 20 0 0 | 6 3 | 3 2 6 |
| 10 | " | 20 0 0 | 6 3 | 3 2 6 |
| 11 | XII. | 192 0 0 | 6 3 | 30 0 0 |
| 12 | " | 179 1 0 | 6 3 | 28 0 2 |
| 13 | " | 220 1 0 | 5 6 | 30 5 8 |
| 14 | " | 264 2 0 | 6 3 | 41 6 6 |
| 15 | XI. | 284 2 0 | 6 0 | 42 13 6 |
| 16 | XII. | 418 0 0 | 6 9 | 70 10 9 |
| 17 | " | 252 3 0 | 7 0 | { 44 4 7 |
| 18 | " | 424 2 0 | 5 6 | *5 1 0 |
| 19 | XVI. | 274 2 0 | 4 9 | 58 7 4 |
| 20 | " | 174 2 0 | 5 9 | 32 11 11|
| 21 | " | 148 2 0 | 5 5 | 25 1 8 |
| 22 | " | 352 2 0 | 5 8 | 19 19 1 |
| 23 | " | 172 2 0 | 6 6 | 49 11 5 |
| 24 | XII. | 20 0 3 | 1 6 | 29 2 2 |

Arowhenua Survey District.—Waiapi Settlement.

| 1 | I. | 91 2 35 | 8 6 | 19 9 10 |
| 2 | " | 151 3 7 | 8 6 | 32 5 1 |
| 3 | " | 110 2 4 | 9 0 | 24 17 4 |
| 4 | " | 20 0 0 | 8 6 | 4 5 0 |
| 5 | " | 174 2 7 | 8 6 | 37 1 10 |
| 6 | " | 19 2 39 | 8 6 | 4 3 11 |
| 7 | " | 19 3 17 | 8 6 | 4 4 5 |
| 8 | " | 10 0 4 | 8 6 | 2 2 7 |
| 9 | " | 10 0 0 | 8 6 | 2 2 6 |
| 10 | " | 10 0 12 | 8 6 | 2 2 10 |
| 11 | " | 10 0 0 | 8 6 | 2 2 6 |
| 12 | " | 17 3 2 | 8 6 | 3 15 6 |
| 13 | " | 15 0 0 | 8 6 | 3 3 9 |
| 14 | " | 20 0 36 | 8 9 | 4 8 6 |
| 15 | " | 443 1 33| 7 9 | { 85 18 5 |

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Regulations for Deer-shooting, Otago.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and “The Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, 1881,” His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby notify that deer (bucks or stags only) may be shot and killed within the boundaries of the Otago Acclimatisation Society’s district, subject to the following regulations and restrictions, namely:—

REGULATIONS.

1. Licenses to shoot and kill deer (bucks or stags only) in the Otago Acclimatisation Society’s district, except within the area hereinafter described, will be issued under the hand of the Chief Postmaster at Dunedin, on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society. For every such license to kill red deer a fee of £3 sterling will be charged; and no holder of any such license as aforesaid shall kill more than four stags under or by virtue of such license, and no stag with less than eight points shall be killed. And for every such license to kill fallow deer a fee of £2 sterling will be charged; and no holder of any such license as aforesaid shall kill more than four bucks under or by virtue of such license, and no buck with less than eight points shall be killed.

The said Chief Postmaster is hereby appointed and authorised to issue and sign the said licenses.

2. Every such license shall entitle the person named therein to kill fallow deer (bucks only), as provided in Regulation No. 1, from the 1st March, 1897, to the 20th April, 1897, and red deer (stags only), as provided in Regulation No. 1, from the 15th March to the 30th April, 1897. Ball-cartridge only to be used.

3. No doe, hind, or fawn will be allowed to be killed on any pretext whatever, and no dogs will be allowed to accompany either the licensee or any attendant he may have with him.

4. The licensee must give notice to the said Chief Postmaster of the date on which it is his intention to stalk deer; such notice to be posted, or delivered, or telegraphed three clear days before such date.

5. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorising any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

6. No deer shall be shot within an area containing about 24,800 acres in one block, being parts of the Mid-Hawea, Longslip, Lower Hawea, and Lindis Districts, plans of which area will be issued by the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society to persons to whom licenses to shoot deer are granted.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st October, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS RICHARD WINSBURY PHILPOTTS

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Charleston, vice John Bird, transferred, on and from the 22nd February, 1897.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM JOHN MORTON

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Otautau.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Acting Colonial Secretary.