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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 102

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of December, 1899.

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 Rora te Oiroa Potaka, otherwise called Rora Utiku, of Rata, 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 twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, 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 Rora te Oiroa Potaka, otherwise Rora Utiku, 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 Rora te Oiroa Potaka, otherwise Rora Utiku, to mortgage the lands set out in the Schedule hereto to a lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Making General Harbour Regulations.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of December, 1899.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section two hundred and twelve of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” that the Governor in Council may, for the purposes specified in the said section, from time to time make regulations, to be called “General Harbour Regulations,” and which shall be in force in all the ports of the colony:

And whereas by Order in Council dated the fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 49, of the seventh day of the same month, the Governor in Council made General Harbour Regulations:

And whereas it is desirable to revoke Regulation No. 21 of the said regulations:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the hereinbefore-in-part-recited Act, doth hereby revoke Regulation No. 21 of the said General Harbour Regulations of the fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, and doth hereby make the following General Harbour Regulations, and doth order and declare that they shall be in force in all ports of the colony.

GENERAL HARBOUR REGULATIONS.

21. No gunpowder or explosives in excess of 50 lb. shall be received on board or landed from any ship except at the usual gunpowder anchorage.

21A. Gunpowder or explosives shipped or landed at a place other than the usual gunpowder anchorage shall be conveyed to or from the ship in properly constructed copper magazines, or strong wooden boxes with copper fastenings, with lids properly and securely fastened.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Time for holding Election, Rangitikei Electoral District, extended.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of December, 1899.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS on the twenty-second day of November last past the Clerk of the Writs, pursuant to the provisions of “The Electoral Act, 1893,” and its amendments, duly issued a writ for the election of one member to serve in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Rangitikei: And whereas Thomas Watson, the Returning Officer for the said district (hereinafter referred to as “the Returning Officer”), in accordance with the provisions of “The Electoral Act, 1893,” and its amendments, duly received nominations of Frank Yates Lethbridge and Thomas Riley Taylor as candidates for election as such member of the House of Representatives for the said district: And whereas according to the terms of the said writ so issued as aforesaid the poll for the said election was directed to be taken on the sixth day of December instant, and such writ was made returnable on the thirteenth day of the same month: And whereas on the fourth day of December now instant the said Thomas Riley Taylor died: And whereas by the eighty-second section of “The Electoral Act, 1893” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that if a duly nominated candidate, who has not withdrawn, shall die after the last day on which nomination-papers can be sent in, and before the day appointed for the poll at an election, the Returning Officer shall, upon being satisfied of the fact of such death, countermand notice of the poll, and also that all proceedings with reference to the election shall be commenced afresh in all respects as if the writ had been received by the Returning Officer on the day on which proof was given him of such death, and also that it shall not be necessary to nominate afresh any candidate in respect of whom the nomination required by this Act was given at the time of the countermand of the poll: And whereas, proof having been given to the Returning Officer of the fact of such death, he hath; by notice published in the Feilding Star of the fourth day of December aforesaid, duly countermanded notice of the poll intended to be taken as aforesaid, and hath also indorsed the said writ as required by the provisions of the eighty-third section of the said Act: And whereas by the one-hundred-and-sixty-eighth section of the said Act it is enacted that, within twenty-one days before or after the day appointed for doing any act, matter, or thing by the said Act required to be done on or before a day certain, the Governor in Council may extend the time allowed for doing any such act, matter, or thing, and adopt, or cause to be adopted, such measures as may be necessary to remove any obstacle or difficulty of a technical or formal nature by which the carrying-out of the provisions of the said Act may be impeded, and supply any deficiency which may be required to be supplied in order to enable the said provisions to be carried out:

Now, therefore, in order to enable the said election to be carried out, and to remove any obstacle of a formal or technical nature by which the provisions of “The Electoral Act, 1893,” might be impeded, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in this behalf enabling him, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare as follows, that is to say,—