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the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, under section thirty-nine of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” in respect of any order of the Court determining the succession to the estate of any Native deceased, the Governor, on being certified by the Chief Judge as in the said section is provided, may, by Order in Council, empower the Native Appellate Court to deal with such application as a valid appeal under “The Native Land Court Act, 1894”: And whereas the Chief Judge has, in respect of the application of Pirihiра Tarewa Urupine and others, under section thirty-nine aforesaid, which application bears date the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, certified as by the said section sixty-two is required: And whereas the said application in all other respects complies with the requirements of the last-mentioned section:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby empower the Native Appellate Court to deal with the said application as an appeal, under the provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” from the orders of Court hereinafter specified, that is to say:—

The three several orders of the Court, dated the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, appointing Tiopira Poiha, Wiere Ngapaiaka, and Kararaina Henare to succeed to the interests of Heremaia Patiarero, Hori Pakihi, and Te Rangikatatu, deceased, in the New Zealand Company’s tenths in the District of Wellington.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Authorising Native to mortgage Land under Section 6 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of September, 1898.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section six of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, authorise any Native owning land in severalty to mortgage such land to any lending department of the Government, and that in such case the mortgage shall operate in all respects as if the mortgagor were other than a Native, and accordingly none of the restrictions, limitations, or provisions of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” or any other Act affecting Native lands, or lands owned or held by Natives, shall apply, anything in any such Act to the contrary notwithstanding: And whereas Ngapiki Waaka Hakaraia, of Kai Iwi, in the Provincial District of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, being the owner in severalty of the block or parcel of land mentioned and particularised in the Schedule hereto, has applied to be allowed to mortgage the said block of land: And whereas, by certificate bearing date the ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, under the hand of Robert Ward, Esquire, a Judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, and the seal of the said Court, it was certified that the said Ngapiki Waaka Hakaraia possesses, irrespective of the land proposed to be mortgaged, other land sufficient for her maintenance:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Act aforesaid, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby authorise the said Ngapiki Waaka Hakaraia to mortgage the land set out in the Schedule hereto to the Government Advances to Settlers Office, being a lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE:

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing 320 acres, more or less, known as Kai Iwi No. 5r, and being the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court dated the 27th day of April, 1896.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notifying Land in Wellington for Sale by Public Auction.

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 Wednesday, the twenty-third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, as the time at which the land enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the price at which the said land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—MANGAONE SURVEY DISTRICT.

For Sale for Cash.

This section is situated about three miles and a half from Eketahuna, and is approached by a metalled road. An area of about 1½ acres of the section is level, and the soil is good on a sandstone formation. The timber consists chiefly of rimu, tawa, &c., and a mixed undergrowth.

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.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the Native owner of the land described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of such land contained in the Crown grant bearing date the fifteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, 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 the restrictions imposed by the said Crown grant on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing 50 acres, more or less, being Allotment No. 46, Parish of Pepepe, held under Crown grant dated the 15th July, 1880, in favour of Reweti Ngamohi, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by gift, sale, lease, or mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such gift, sale, lease, or mortgage.”

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

R. J. SEDDON.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve in the Taranaki Land District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to make, change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in Her Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II. of the Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be