May 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1013

Conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court.
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RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of May, 1899.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” it is enacted that the Native Land Court shall, as regards all lands within the meaning of subsection ten of section fourteen aforesaid, have jurisdiction as in the said subsection mentioned: Provided that the Court shall not proceed to exercise such jurisdiction unless the Governor in Council shall by Order authorise the same to be done:
And whereas the land specified in the Schedule hereto is land in respect whereof the Court has jurisdiction as aforesaid, and it is expedient that the Court should be authorised to exercise the same:
Now, therefore, 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 authorise the said Court to exercise in respect of the said lands the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid—that is to say, to determine whether or not the said lands or any part thereof was, on the investigation of title thereto, intended by the Native Land Court, or by the nominal owner or owners of such lands, to be held by such nominal owner or owners in trust for Natives not named in the title, and to determine who are the Natives (if any) entitled beneficially to such lands, and to order the inclusion of such Natives in the title, either together with or in lieu of the nominal owners or any of them, and for the purpose aforesaid to order the cancellation or amendment of any existing instrument of title, and the issue of such new Crown grants or other instruments of title as may be necessary, and generally to exercise in respect of the said lands all the jurisdiction and powers conferred on the Native Land Court by subsection ten of section fourteen of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”
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SCHEDULE.
ALL those parcels of land known as Tauhara Middle No. 4A, Pahautea, Rotokui, Patuiwi, and Waipahihi, containing respectively about 30,148 acres, 2,294 acres, 276 acres, 75 acres, and 146 acres, being unsold portions of and reserves in the Tauhara Middle Block, as comprised in Crown grant, Vol. ix., folio 71, of the Land Transfer Register of the Auckland District.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Empowering Native Appellate Court to hear Appeal under Section 62 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895.”
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RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of May, 1899.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section sixty-two of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is provided that in any case in which application has been or shall be made to 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 Pine Ngawaea, under section thirty-nine aforesaid, 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 two several orders of the Court, dated the fifteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, appointing Rina Potae to succeed to the interest of Piniha Pahau, deceased, in Tokomaru K8 and Tokomaru B4 Blocks.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Empowering Native Appellate Court to hear Appeal under Section 62 of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895.”
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RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of May, 1899.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section sixty-two of “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” it is provided that in any case in which application has been or shall be made to 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 Wi Hakiwai, under section thirty-nine aforesaid, 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 order of Court hereinafter specified, that is to say:—
The order of the Court, dated the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, appointing Ropoama Huarere, Pihikete Takerei, and Meriana Takerei to succeed to the interest of Horiana Taituha, deceased, in Ngatarawa No. 2E Block.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.
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RANFURLY, Governor.
WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by a majority of the owners of the land described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of such land contained in the Land Transfer certificate bearing date the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, 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 upon 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 all restrictions imposed by the said Land Transfer certificate on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.
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SCHEDULE.
ALL that parcel of land, containing 500 acres, more or less, situate in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, being the land known as Otawhao B, held under Land Transfer certificate dated the 3rd March, 1892, Vol. xxix., folio 58, in favour of Teira Tiakitai and others, and containing the following restrictions: “The land may be leased for any term not exceeding twenty-one years, but shall be otherwise inalienable except with the consent of the Governor.”
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.
R. J. SEDDON,
Native Minister.