Nov. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2035

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 and Native Land Court partition order on the alienation of the said land are hereby removed.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 173 acres, more or less, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, being the land known as Mangatainoka No. 2b H No. 2c, held under partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the 2nd day of September, 1898, in favour of Rora Tohu 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 twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

R. J. SEDDON,
Native Minister.

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Warrant exempting Crown Lands from the Operation of “The Mining Act, 1898.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

WHEREAS by section twenty of “The Mining Act, 1898,” it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, exempt any Crown lands from mining, or from any specified mining purpose, or from that Act or any specified provisions of that Act, and that the lands to which any such notice relates shall be specified therein by words of particular description: And whereas the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto have been acquired under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and its amendments, and it is desirable that they should be exempted from mining, and from any specified mining purpose, and from “The Mining Act, 1898,” and from any specified provisions of that Act:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the hereinbefore-in-part-recited Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby exempt the lands particularly described in the Schedule hereto from mining, and from any specified mining purpose, and from the operations of “The Mining Act, 1898,” and from any specified provisions of the said Act.

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SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

LAND acquired by exchange, as follows:—
Sections 75, 76, 77, 78, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 7, 73, part 21, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 16 of Block I., 17 of Block I., 18 of Block I., 19 of Block I., 20 of Block I., 23 of Block I., 40 of Block I., 72, 71, 31, 32, 65, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154,

146, 161, and roads through freeholds of old district, north bank of Wairau, containing by admeasurement 3,973 acres, more or less.

Also, Sections 64 to 68 inclusive, 166 and part of 63 lying north of the production of the back line of Section No. 72 to Bartlett’s Creek, situated in old district, north bank of Wairau, containing 750 acres, more or less.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Makareao Estate (Part).

Being Sections 16 to 23, inclusive, Block IV., Dunback Survey District, containing by admeasurement 108 acres, more or less.

Pomahaka Downs Estate (Part).

Being parts of Sections 4 and 5, Block XIV., Pomahaka Survey District, lying north of a line parallel to and 10 chains distant from the Pomahaka River, containing by admeasurement 130 acres, more or less.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

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

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RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and 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 one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the twenty-seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and that the said lands may be selected on lease in perpetuity, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892”; and I do hereby declare that the rental at which the said lands shall be leased shall be that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands.

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SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—GERALDINE COUNTY.—OPIHI SURVEY DISTRICT.—RAKITAIRI SETTLEMENT.

First-class Agricultural Land.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

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Rural Lands in the Wellington Land District open for Sale or Selection.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

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 sale or selection on and after the twenty-seventh day of December, 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.”