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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 9

Rural Lands in the Hawke’s Bay Land District open for Sale or Selection.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by 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 section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

Flat open land, all in grass; good soil. Within half a mile of the schoolhouse and telegraph-office at Tōlago Bay.

Undulating country, covered with mixed bush consisting of tawa, rimu, and a little totara, while on Sections 2 and 3 there are a few birch-trees on the hill-tops; good soil; well watered; elevation above sea-level, from 600 ft. to 1,200 ft. Distant about twenty-two miles from Gisborne by a good road, fourteen miles of which are formed; also accessible up the Te Arai River, which forms the eastern boundary.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

| Cook | Patutahi | 2 | XIV. | 1,488 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 930 0 0 | 0 7·5 | 23 5 0 | 0 6 | 18 12 0 |
| " | Nuhaka N. | 1 | II. | | | | | | | |

This section contains about 500 acres of mixed bush, good soil, 500 acres of fairly good scrub, and the balance poor manuka country. Broken country, the elevation ranging from 800 ft. to 1,960 ft.

| Cook | Nuhaka N. | 2 | II. | 720 0 0 | 0 15 0 | 540 0 0 | 0 9 | 13 10 0 | 0 7·2 | 10 16 0 |

Fairly good soil, covered by mixed scrub; easy undulating country, well watered by the Mangapoike River passing through it. Height above sea-level, from 1,000 ft. to 1,700 ft.

| Cook | Nuhaka N. | 3 | II. | 1,610 0 0 | 0 15 0 | 1,207 10 0 | 0 9 | 30 3 9 | 0 7·2 | 24 3 0 |

There is about a thousand acres of good mixed bush and scrub upon the section; the balance is broken country, covered with birch. Height above sea-level, from 1,000 ft. to 2,000 ft.

The above sections are about twenty-five miles distant from Gisborne, fourteen miles of which is a good formed road, while the balance will be improved, and made through the block.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Fixing Shooting Season for Deer, License-fee, &c., Marlborough 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 red deer stags and fallow deer bucks may be taken or killed within the Marlborough District, comprising the Counties of Marlborough and Sounds, from Saturday, the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, to Monday, the eleventh 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 to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on the payment of the sum of twenty shillings each, and that no licensee shall be allowed to kill more than six stags or bucks, and that the Chief Postmaster at Blenheim is hereby appointed to issue the said licenses.

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

WM. HALL-JONES.

Amended Regulations under “The Cyanide Process Gold-extraction Act, 1897.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Cyanide Process Gold-extraction Act, 1897,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby amend the regulations made by me under the aforesaid Act on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, by revoking clause six thereof, and substituting in lieu thereof the following clause:—

6A. The royalty shall be payable on the following graduated scale, according to the value of all gold and silver produced from each ton of quartz or other ore in the mine wherein the said patent rights are used or employed, that is to say,—

(1.) One and a half per cent. of such value where such value does not exceed £3 per ton;

(2.) Two per cent. where such value exceeds £3, but does not exceed £4 per ton; and

(3.) Two and a half per cent. where such value exceeds £4 per ton.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Mines.

Notice of Election of a Member of the Board of Conciliation for the Wellington Industrial District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that

SAMUEL BROWN, of Wellington, coal and produce merchant,

has been duly elected a member of the Board of Conciliation in and for the Wellington Industrial District, vice John Young, resigned.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Labour.