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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

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 exclu-
sively 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, and
also for the purpose of alienation by way of lease, the
block or parcel of land known as Subdivision No. 6 of the
Ruanui No. 1 Block, situate in the Provincial District of
Wellington, containing six hundred and seventy acres, more
or less, and being the whole of the land comprised in a
partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the nine-
teenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
four, in favour of Hohi Matene.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Duty to be levied on Caramel Cereal.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS a certain article of merchandise known as
“caramel cereal” is imported into New Zealand,
which article, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Trade
and Customs, is a substitute for roasted coffee (the latter
being a dutiable article under “The Customs and Excise
Duties Act, 1888”), and which can be used for a similar
purpose as roasted coffee:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance
and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me
by the seventeenth section of “The Customs and Excise
Duties Act, 1888,” do hereby direct that, from and after the
date hereof, there shall be levied on the article known as
“caramel cereal” a duty of one penny the pound, such rate
being fixed in proportion to the degree in which the said
“caramel cereal” approximates in its quality or uses to the
said roasted coffee.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this thirtieth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-nine.

W. C. WALKER,
For Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Governor's Order No. 155.]

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

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 an order of the Native
Land Court bearing date the sixth day of May, one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighty-six, and now contained in a
partition order of the Native Land Court bearing date the
second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine, 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
orders of the Native Land Court on the alienation of the
said land are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 312 acres, more or less,
situate in the Poverty Bay District, being the land known
as Mangaoae No. 1p, held under partition order of the
Native Land Court, dated the 2nd day of September, 1889,
in favour of Pete Morete 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 assent of the Governor.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-nine

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Native Minister.

Notifying Lands in Wellington for Sale by Public Auction.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred
upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of
“The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ran-
furly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
appoint Wednesday, the second day of August, one thou-
sand eight hundred and ninety-nine, as the time at which
the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold
by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which
the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said
Schedule hereto following the description of such lands
respectively.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

Mangaweka Township.

Section 56: 1 rood; upset price, £20.

Suburbs of Raetihi.

Section 289: 2 acres 2 roods 11 perches; upset price,
£51 7s. 6d. Weighted with £3,000 for improvements.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twentieth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Southland Land District open for
Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

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 described in the Schedule
hereto shall be open for selection on and after the third
day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
nine; and that the land mentioned in the said Schedule
may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance
with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one
of the said Act, as it contains, or is supposed to contain,
metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also
fix the prices at which the said lands shall be leased, as men-
tioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the
said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions
of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT. — WALLACE COUNTY. — WAIRIO
SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

The above sections are open pastoral lands, with a little
light manuka scrub, fair soil, well watered; height above
sea-level, from 500 ft. to 750 ft.; distance from Nightcaps
Railway-station, from one mile to two miles and a half.
These sections are burdened as follows (being valuation for
fencing): Section 206, 10s.; Section 207, £3 8s.; Section 208,
£2 10s.; Section 210, £6.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.