SEPT. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1501

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby authorise the said Court to exercise in respect of the said land the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid—that is to say, to determine whether or not the said land or any part thereof was, on the investigation of title thereto, intended by the Native Land Court, or by the nominal owner or owners of such land, to be held by such nominal owner or owners in trust for Natives not named in the title, and to determine who are the Natives (if any) entitled beneficially to such land, and to order the inclusion of such Natives in the title, either together with or in lieu of the nominal owners or any of them, and for the purpose aforesaid to order the cancellation or amendment of any existing instrument of title, and the issue of such new Crown grants or other instruments of title as may be necessary, and generally to exercise in respect of the said land all the jurisdiction and powers conferred on the Native Land Court by subsection ten of section fourteen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 6,150 acres, more or less, situate in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, known as Hereheretau B, being the land comprised in an order of the Native Land Court dated the 2nd December, 1890.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Adding to Dues for Use of Northern Steamship Company’s Wharf at Cowes Bay, Waiheke Island.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of September, 1898.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 64, of the twenty-fifth day of the same month, the Governor in Council did, inter alia, prescribe dues and rates which should be taken by the Northern Steamship Company (Limited) for the use of the wharf to be erected by the company at Cowes Bay, Waiheke Island, in the Hauraki Gulf:

And whereas an omission occurred in the scale of dues set forth in the Second Schedule of the said Order in Council, and it is desirable to make an addition to such scale of dues:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by “The Harbours Act, 1878,” and its amendments, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby prescribe that the following dues and rates shall be taken by the said company for the use of the said wharf, in addition to the dues and rates set forth in the Second Schedule of the Order in Council of the twenty-second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

PASSENGERS.

For every passenger who shall land on or be shipped from the said wharf, the sum of one shilling.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

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RANFURLY, 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, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, 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-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight; 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.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WAIKATO COUNTY.—CAMBRIDGE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Karapiro Settlement.

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £130, repayable by half-yearly instalments in ten years.

Note.—Each section is an allotment.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this nineteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

J. CARROLL,
For Minister of Lands.

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Notifying Lands in Auckland for Sale by Public Auction.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Friday, the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction at Auckland; 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.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Village of Mamaku (near Rotorua).

Block I.: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, each 1 acre, upset price per lot £5; Lot 6, 1 acre 24 perches, upset price £5 15s.

Block II.: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, each 1 acre, upset price £5 per lot; Lot 6, 1 acre 24 perches, upset price £5 15s.

Block III.: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, each 1 acre, upset price £5 per lot; Lot 6, 1 acre 24 perches, upset price £5 15s.

Block IV.: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, each 1 acre, upset price £5 per lot; Lot 6, 1 acre 24 perches, upset price £5 15s.

Block V.: Lot 1, 10 acres 1 rood 22 perches, total upset price £31.

Block VI.: Lots 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, each 1 acre, upset price per lot £5; Lots 6 and 12, each 2 roods 33 perches, upset price per lot £5.

Business and residence sites adjoining the Mamaku Railway-station, near Rotorua.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

J. CARROLL,
For Minister of Lands.