Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the district described in the
Schedule hereto is hereby established, defined, and con-
stiuted a local land district for the sale and disposal of land
under the said Act, and that the land office the name of
which is in the said Schedule set opposite the name of the
said local district is appointed the land office for the said
local district.

SCHEDULE.

Name and Description of Local
District.

FENCOURT LOCAL LAND
DISTRICT.

All that area contained in
Blocks IV. and VIII., Hamilton
Survey District, and
Blocks I., V., and VI., Cam-
bridge Survey District, in the
Auckland Land District,
known as the Fencourt Es-
tate.

Names of Land Offices.

Principal Land Office,
Auckland.

Local Land Office, the
Courthouse, Cambridge.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly;
Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George;
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at the Government House, at Wel-
ington, this thirteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Local Land District constituted.

RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the twenty-third section of “The Land
Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor, by Pro-
clamation in the Gazette, may from time to time establish
and define, abolish, alter, or reconstitute local districts for
the sale or disposal of land, and in like manner from time
to time may appoint land offices and land officers or other
persons for conducting sales of land in such local districts,
and for receiving applications for the sale, letting, disposal,
or occupation of Crown lands, and for generally carrying
into effect the provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the district described in the
Schedule hereto is hereby established, defined, and consti-
tuted a local land district for the sale and disposal of land
under the said Act, and that the land office the name of
which is in the said Schedule set opposite the name of the
said local district is appointed the land office for the said
local district.

SCHEDULE.

Name and Description of Local
District.

TAKITU LOCAL LAND DISTRICT.
All those small grazing-runs
numbered 81 to 85, inclusive,
situated in Blocks I., V., and
VI., Elephant Hill Survey
District, and comprising the
lands known as the Takitu
Settlement.

Names of Land Offices.

Principal Land Office,
Christchurch.

Local Land Office, the
Courthouse, Waimate.

Excepting Land from Operation of Section 117 of “The
Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
ninth day of January, 1900.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section four of “The Native Land Laws
Amendment Act, 1895,” it is enacted that the
Governor may, by Order in Council, except from the
operation of section one hundred and seventeen of “The
Native Land Court Act, 1894” (hereinafter called “the said
Act”), for a limited period or otherwise, and either generally
or for such purposes and subject to such restrictions as shall
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 :
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: And whereas
by section two of “ The Native Land Laws Amendment Act,
1899,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council, when
making an Order under section four of “ The Native Land
Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” permitting land to be mort-
gaged by the Native owner thereof, may except such land
from the operation of sections five and six of “ The Native
Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” or of any other enact-
ment in force in the Colony of New Zealand relating to the
Native lands or lands owned by Natives, so that the owner
thereof may mortgage the same as fully and effectually, and
confer the same power of sale, as if the land comprised in
the mortgage were lawfully owned by a European :

And whereas Airini Donnelly, of Crissoge, in the Prov-
cial District of Hawke’s Bay, in the Colony of New Zealand,
being the registered proprietor of the several blocks or par-
cels of land mentioned and particularised in the Schedule
hereto, has applied to be allowed to mortgage the said lands :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities hereinbefore recited, and of all other
powers and authorities him thereunto enabling, and acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Coun-
cil of the said colony, doth hereby except from the opera-
tion of section one hundred and seventeen of the said Act
the several blocks or parcels of land mentioned and particu-
larised in the Schedule hereto, for the purpose of permitting
and enabling the said Airini Donnelly to alienate by way of
mortgage the said lands, either together or in lots ; and
also, in further pursuance and exercise of the said powers
and authorities, and acting by and with the advice and
consent of the said Executive Council, and for the purpose
of enabling the said Airini Donnelly to mortgage the said
lands, either together or in lots, as fully and effectually,
and confer the same power of sale on the mortgagee as if
the said lands were lawfully owned by a European, doth
except the said lands from the operation of sections five and
six of “ The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1895,” and
of any other enactment in force in the Colony of New
Zealand relating to Native lands or lands owned by Natives.

SCHEDULE.

FIRSTLY, all that piece or parcel of land situate in the Pro-
vincial District of Wellington, containing 3,125 acres, more
or less, known as Mangaohane No. 10, and being the whole
of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. lxxxi.,
folio 52.

Secondly, all that piece or parcel of land situate in the
said Provincial District of Wellington, containing 81 acres,
more or less, known as Mangaohane No. 1r, and being the
whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. lxxxi.,
folio 53.

Thirdly, all that piece or parcel of land situate in the said
Provincial District of Wellington, containing 1,275 acres,
more or less, known as Mangaohane No. 1r, and being the
whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. lxxxi.,
folio 54.

Fourthly, all that piece or parcel of land situate in the
said Provincial District of Wellington and in the Provincial
District of Hawke’s Bay, containing in the aggregate 11,891
acres, more or less, and being the whole of the land com-
prised in certificate of title, Vol. lxxxi., folio 56, Wellington
Register, and certificate of title, Vol. xxxv., folio 35, Hawke’s
Bay Register.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.