Dec. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1989

And whereas the said lands are held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown: And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said lands, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in that behalf, 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 declare that the lands shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purpose of the said road, and the said lands shall vest in Her Majesty the Queen as from the fifteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventh day of December, 1898.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE A. J. CADMAN PRESIDING 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:

And whereas Te Rore Taoho, of Kaihu, in the Provincial District of Auckland, being the owner of the land described in the Schedule hereto, has applied to be allowed to sell the same:

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, all that parcel of land, containing 2 acres 1 rood 11·2 perches, more or less, as the same is described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, containing 2 acres 1 rood 11·2 perches, more or less, being portion of the Opanake No. 1 Block, Tutamoe Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a point in the north-eastern boundary-line of that portion of Opanake No. 1 Block owned by Tere te Hau and others under certificate of title, Vol. lxxii., folio 173, distant along such boundary-line 1,720·6 links from the northernmost corner of such portion; towards the north-west by a line bearing 48° 4′ 30″, 400 links; towards the north-east by a line bearing 138° 4′ 30″, 580 links; towards the south-east by a line bearing 228° 4′ 30″, 400 links, to the north-eastern boundary-line of that part of Opanake No. 1 Block comprised in the certificate of title, Vol. lxxii., folio 173; and thence towards the south-west by the said north-eastern boundary-line, 580 links, to the commencing-point.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rural Lands in the Otago 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-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine; 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.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Clutha .. | Warepa .. | 64 | I. | A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d.
28 2 20 | 1 5 0 | 36 5 0 | 1 3 | 0 18 2 | 1 0 | 0 14 6

Fair bush land, well watered. Situated about six miles from Toiro Railway-station. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £11 17s. 6d.