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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bonâ fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase thereof, prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided that no Order in Council under the provisions of this section shall take effect until after the expiration of two months from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette: Provided, also, that every alienation under the provisions of this section shall be confirmed by the Court in terms of section fifty-three of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of sale, the block or parcel of land known as “Te Kapuiro,” situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing one hundred and twenty-three acres three roods thirty perches, more or less, and being the land comprised in an order of the Native Land Court, dated the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, in favour of Utiku Marumaru.

T. H. HAMER,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Exempting Land from Operation of Section 117 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Christchurch, this fourth day of February, 1898.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall be in such Order specified, any land, wheresoever situate, which is for the time being subject to the operation of the said section, or any interest therein or right over the same, or may in like manner make such exception in favour exclusively of any lessee or other person who has been bonâ fide in occupation of and has made improvements on such land, or has paid money to Native owners for lease or purchase thereof, prior to the passing of the said Act: Provided that no Order in Council under the provisions of this section shall take effect until after the expiration of two months from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette: Provided also that every alienation under the provisions of this section shall be confirmed by the Court in terms of section fifty-three of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section four of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby except from the operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of alienation by way of lease, the block or parcel of land known as Section 394, Whereama Block, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, containing one thousand one hundred and fifty acres, more or less, and being the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume Sixty-six, folio one hundred and twenty-three.

T. H. HAMER,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Fixing Shooting Season for Deer, License-fee, &c., Wanganui District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that deer (stags only, of not less than eight points) may be taken or killed within the Wanganui District, comprising the Counties of Wanganui and Waitotara, from Tuesday, the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, to Friday, the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned); and I do further notify that licenses not exceeding twenty in number to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each (not more than one such license to be issued to any one individual), and that no licensee shall be allowed to kill more than one stag; and the Chief Postmaster at Wanganui is hereby appointed to issue the said licenses.

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

WM. HALL-JONES.

Lands held under Lease by the Kauri Timber Company (Limited) declared to be surrendered to Her Majesty and to be available for Mining Purposes.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section twenty-nine of “The Mining Act Amendment Act, 1896,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto have been surrendered to Her Majesty, and will be available for mining purposes under the provisions of “The Mining Act, 1891,” and the amendments thereto, on and after the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, subject nevertheless to all such mining rights and privileges as have heretofore been granted in respect thereof by the Warden of the Hauraki Mining District.

SCHEDULE.

PART OF TAIRUA BLOCK.

Timber Lease.

ALL that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situated in Whitianga and Tairua Survey District, containing by admeasurement 11,429 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north-west by the Te Tipi and Kapowai Blocks, 11569 and 5722 links; generally towards the north by part of the Tairua Block, 12325, 8882, 6177, 1911, and 504 links, then by a stream, then by the Pepe Block, 1130 and 6960 links, then by the Pepe Stream; towards the east by the Tairua Harbour, then by part of the Tairua Block, 770 and 1025 links, then by the Matapaiā Block, 2330 links, then by the Papatawatawa Block, 3573 links, again by the Tairua Harbour, then by the Tairua River; towards the west by a crossing of a road, then by Section No. 3 of Block III., Tairua Survey District, and Section No. 1 of Block XIII., Whitianga Survey District, 1200 links; towards the south by the aforesaid Section No. 1 of Block XIII., Whitianga Survey District, then by Section No. 2 of Block XII., Whitianga Survey District, the crossing of a road, the crossing of a stream, the crossing of a road, and by Section No. 1 of Block XII., Whitianga Survey District, 21590 links; again towards the east by aforesaid Section No. 1 of Block XII., Whitianga Survey District, Section No. 14 of Block II., Tairua Survey District, and the crossing of a road, 15545 links, again by the Tairua River; towards the south and south-west by part of the Puketui Block, to be surrendered, 1245, 4150, 1210, 286, 195, 1107, 173, 470, 270, 264, 674, 730, 445, 248, 559, 129, and 998 links respectively, again by part of the Puketui Block, 2000 links; and towards the west by part of the Tairua Block 16549, 17175, and 9979 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

PART OF PUKETUI BLOCK.

Timber Lease.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District situated in Blocks V. and VI., Tairua Survey District, being portion of the Puketui Block, containing by admeasurement 990 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the north generally by the portion of the Tairua Block proposed to be surrendered, 998, 129, 559, 248, 445, 730, 674, 264, 270, 470, 173, 1107, 195, 286, 1210, 4150, and 1245 links; towards the east and south-east by the Tairua and Takatakahia Rivers; and towards the south-west and west by the remaining portion of the Puketui Block, 833, 758, 683, 546, 488, 383, 300, 1210, 1148, 1180, 858, 891, 697, 89, and 12987 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

PART OF TE KARO NO. 1 BLOCK.

Timber Lease.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situated in the Whitianga Survey District, Coromandel County, containing by admeasurement 497 acres, more or less, being part of the Te Karo No. 1 Block. Bounded towards the north by lines, 390, 384, 172, 376, 212, 149, 228, and 133 links, and by other part of the Te Karo No. 1 Block, 6720 links; towards the west by the Whenuakite No. 2 Block, 280, 202, 172, 211, 201, 251, 432, 245, 337, 477,