JUNE 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1123

SCHEDULE.
WHARFAGE ON VESSELS.

Regular trading-steamers and sailing-vessels, for each wharf per half-year, if paid in advance, per ton register .. .. .. .. £ s. d.
0 0 6
Minimum charge for each wharf per half-year, if paid in advance .. .. .. .. 1 0 0
Irregular trading-vessels of any class, for each time they come alongside a wharf, per ton register .. 0 0 1
Minimum charge .. .. .. .. 0 2 6

All vessels which do not pay their dues in advance will be deemed to be irregular trading-vessels.

Vessels coming alongside the wharves will be held responsible for any damage done to the wharves, and the said Council will repair any such damage, and charge the cost of doing so against the master or owner of the vessel doing the damage.

The half-year will commence on the 1st days of January and July in each year.

The masters or owners of all regular trading-vessels shall pay their dues in advance to the Treasurer of the said Council.

All dues payable by irregular trading-vessels shall be paid to the Treasurer of the said Council, or to some one appointed by him to receive them, the payments to be made by the master or owner of the vessel upon the first application.

WHARFAGE ON GOODS.

All goods landed on or shipped from any wharf, per ton weight or measurement .. .. .. £ s. d.
0 0 6
Minimum charge .. .. .. .. 0 0 2

All goods not removed from the wharves or sheds within seven days will be charged double rates—viz., one shilling per ton.

All landing-dues shall be paid quarterly, on returns to be furnished to the Clerk of the said Council, or other person appointed by the said Council, by the receiver of the goods, or on returns from the books of the master or owner of the vessel which carried them.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amending Rules and Regulations under Division II., Part II., of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of June, 1899.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections one hundred and twenty-six, one hundred and twenty-nine, and one hundred and thirty of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), and of all other powers in and by the said Act him thereto enabling, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting under the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, did, on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, make certain rules and regulations (hereinafter called “the original rules and regulations”) for the purpose of giving full effect to the provisions of Division II., Part II., of the said Act :

And whereas the original rules and regulations were gazetted on the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five: And whereas it is expedient to amend the original rules and regulations in manner hereinafter appearing :

Now, therefore, in exercise of all and single the hereinbefore-recited powers, and of all other powers and authorities him enabling in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby amend and extend the original rules and regulations in manner appearing in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Clause 99 of the original rules and regulations is hereby repealed, and the following regulation is made in lieu thereof, viz.:

99. Whenever throughout these regulations it is provided that any document signed by a proprietor is to be attested, it shall be attested by a Judge or Registrar of the Native Land Court, a Justice of the Peace, a Commissioner of Crown Lands, a Native lands administration officer, a solicitor, a duly licensed interpreter, or such other person as a Judge of the Native Land Court may certify in writing under his hand to be a fit and proper person to attest the signatures of Natives under these regulations.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of June, 1899.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING 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 Pura Rora, of Moawhango, in the Provincial District of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, being the owner in severalty of the blocks or parcels of land mentioned and particularised in the Schedule hereto, has applied to be allowed to mortgage the said blocks of land: And whereas, by certificate bearing date the tenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, under the hand of William Gilbert Mair, Esquire, a Judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, and the seal of the said Court, it was certified that the said Pura Rora 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 Pura Rora to mortgage the lands set out in the Schedule hereto to a lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, known as Awarua No. 2c No. 9, containing 948 acres, more or less, being the whole of the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the 13th day of August, 1896, in favour of Rora te Waikakati.

All that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, known as Awarua No. 2c No. 10, containing 3,595 acres, more or less, being the whole of the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the 13th day of August, 1896, in favour of Pura Rora.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for the Disposal of the Tamai Hamlet, Canterbury Land District, acquired under “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and its Amendments.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of June, 1899.

Present:
THE RT. HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the principal Act”), it is enacted that lands acquired under the principal Act, or any Act by that Act repealed, whether the same be classed as rural, suburban, or town lands, shall, subject to regulations made under the principal Act, be disposed of under the lease-in-perpetuity system, or, if pastoral, under the small-grazing-run system of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892”; and also that, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” the Governor may from time to time make all such regulations under “The Land Act, 1892,” as he shall see fit for (inter alia) the time within which and the manner in which shall be done any act, matter, or thing in the principal Act expressed to be prescribed for the disposition of any land acquired under the principal Act, or for regulating the