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6. All charges payable in respect of the hire of any tele-
   phone instruments shall be paid half-yearly in advance for
   distances up to two miles and under, and for distances over
   two miles quarterly in advance, the first payment to com-
   mence from the date when the connection with the tele-
   phone exchange is completed.

7. If such payment be not made within one week after
   demand, the connection with the exchange may, at the dis-
   cretion of the said Superintendent, be discontinued without
   prejudice to any proceedings for the recovery of any moneys
   then due or otherwise.

8. Telephones connected with exchanges are to be used on
   the business of the subscriber or that of his employés, family,
   or guests.

CHARGES.

On and after the 1st April, 1897, in addition to the
entrance-fee of £1, the charge per annum payable in respect
of the hire for any telephone instrument connected with a
Government telephone exchange shall be as follows:—
To every subscriber for a single wire, as from the date of
connection:—

Per Annum.
At exchanges which are open continuously— £ s.
Business establishments.. .. .. 7 0
Private residences .. .. .. 5 0
At exchanges which are not open continuously—
Business establishments and private resi-
dences .. .. .. .. 5 0
Extra telephone (in addition to cost of fitting) 1 0
Special instruments or appliances, as per
agreement.
Printing name of subscriber in telephone list Free
Printing of additional names in connection
with the same number: For each ad-
ditional entry .. .. .. 0 10

The above rates are for connections with a telephone
exchange of warehouses, stores, shops, and business places
not more than half a mile from the exchange, and of private
residences not more than one mile from the exchange.

For every additional quarter of a mile or fraction thereof,
for each year commencing from the date of connection, and
for every following year, 10s.

Where any connection with an exchange is over one mile
in length, the applicant will be required to hold the same
for three years.

If a connection with a telephone exchange necessitates
the erection of a new line of poles beyond one mile, then
the additional charge after the first mile will be at the rate
of £1 for every quarter of a mile or fraction thereof.

For connections over three miles in length the subscriber
will be charged at ordinary rates on the first three miles.
For the portion beyond that distance he will be required to
pay the cost of erection of the line, and an annual mainten-
ance charge of £1 for each quarter of a mile or fraction
thereof if the line is on new poles, or 10s. for each quarter
of a mile if the wire is on an existing line of poles.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Additional Regulation under "The Post Office Act, 1881":

Posting Letters, &c., on Railway-trains at Flag-stations

and Sidings.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
second day of March, 1897.

Present:

His Excellency the Administrator of the Government
in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the fifth day of
July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the seventh day
of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, certain
regulations were made and rates of postage fixed under the
authority of "The Post Office Act, 1881," for the transmis-
sion of letters and other posted articles through the post:
And whereas it is expedient to amend such regulations in
the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir James Prendergast,
Knight, the Administrator of the Government of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority conferred by the said Act, and of
all other powers and authorities enabling him in this
behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make
the additional regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto,
exempting certain letters and commercial papers posted in
posting-boxes on railway-trains from the imposition of "late
fee," and doth declare that such additional regulation shall

come into force and have effect on and from the first day of
April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

SCHEDULE.

A letter or commercial paper posted in the posting-box on
the guard's van of any railway-train shall not be charged
"late fee" when it is posted at a railway flag-station or
siding at a place where there is not a post-office: Provided
that every such letter or paper bears the words "Posted at
[Name of flag-station or siding]" written or printed on the
front or address side of the letter or paper; otherwise late
fee shall be levied as in ordinary cases.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Local Land District constituted.

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the twenty-third section of "The Land
Act, 1892," it is enacted that the Governor, by Pro-
clamation in the Gazette, may from time to time establish
and define, abolish, alter, or reconstitute local districts for
the sale or disposal of land, and in like manner from time to
time may appoint land offices and land officers or other
persons for conducting sales of land in such local districts,
and for receiving applications for the sale, letting, disposal,
or occupation of Crown lands, and for generally carrying
into effect the provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the district described in
the Schedule hereto is hereby established, defined, and con-
stituted a local district for the sale and disposal of land
under the said Act, and that the land office the name of
which is in the said Schedule set opposite the name of the
said local district is appointed the land office for the said
local district.

SCHEDULE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James
Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, Administrator
of the Government in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
at the Government House, at Wellington; and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this
twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
seven.

JOHN MCKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Notifying Lands in Auckland for Sale by Public Auction.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon
me by the one hundred and thirteenth section of "The
Land Act, 1892," I, James Prendergast, the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
appoint Friday, the fourteenth day of May, 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; and I do hereby fix the prices at which
the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said
Schedule hereto following the description of such lands
respectively.