Mar. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 637

SECOND SCHEDULE.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. THE lands enumerated above are first-class lands.
2. The said lands are open for selection on lease in perpetuity, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”).
3. The day on which the said lands shall be open for application shall be Monday, the 14th day of May, 1900.
4. The rental stated above shall be the price at which the land shall be open for application.
5. Applications shall be made in manner as provided in Part I. of the said Act, and all such applications shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Blenheim.
6. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or single), and will be required to make the declaration prescribed in Schedule C to the said Act.
7. Each applicant shall undertake to pay, immediately upon being declared the successful applicant, the first half-year’s rent, together with the lease- and registration-fee.
8. All rents must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st days of January and July in each year, as provided in section 157 of the said Act; and the first half-year’s rent is payable as before provided.
9. Each selector shall within two years substantially fence and lay down in grass his selection. He must also within three years erect a dwelling-house of the value of at least £20. Residence on the land comprised in each lease shall be as provided in Part III. of the said Act.
10. Selectors may, with the consent of the Land Board, either subdivide, sublet, or transfer their holdings in accordance with the provisions of Part I. of the said Act.
11. No person shall hold more than two allotments. No married woman shall be eligible as a selector; but this provision shall not apply to any married woman who may become a transferee under a will or by virtue of an intestacy.
12. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable, shall extend and apply to the lands affected by these regulations, and to the applications and leases to be made and issued thereunder, and generally to the interests created, and the persons whose rights, liabilities, or interests are thereby affected; and the mention of any particular provision of the said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any other provision of the said Act applicable to the particular case.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extension of Time for Preparation of Valuation-roll under Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act, County of Buller.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of March, 1900.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it has been made to appear that certain things required to be done by “The Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act, 1890,” cannot be done by or within the times mentioned in the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in order that the purpose and intent of “The Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act, 1890,” may have effect, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Rating Act, 1882,” which said Act is incorporated with the first above-mentioned Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby extend the times for doing the said things in connection with the preparation of the valuation-roll of the County of Buller under “The Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act, 1890,” and doth declare that the times for the doing of such several things shall be those specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1. For giving notice of rateable value of mining property: Until 2nd April, 1900.
2. For leaving notices of objections to valuations: Until 14th April, 1900.
3. Resident Magistrate to sit to hear objections to valuations and fix the assessment: On or after the third Monday in April, 1900.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extending the Close Season for Seals.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of March, 1900.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Sea-fisheries Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations (which shall have general force and effect throughout the colony, or particular force and effect only in any waters and places specified therein) for prescribing, among other things, a close season for seals, and for extending any close season so prescribed:

And whereas it is further provided by the said Act that every person who, during any close season for seals, takes any seals is liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds, and in addition thereto is liable to a further penalty, not exceeding twenty pounds, in respect of every seal so taken:

And whereas by Order in Council dated the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, the months of January, February, March, April, May, and June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, were prescribed a close season for seals:

And whereas by Order in Council dated the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, the said close season for seals was extended up to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred:

And whereas it is desirable to further extend such close season for seals:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and with the like advice and consent doth order that such regulations shall have force and effect throughout the Colony of New Zealand, and in all salt, fresh, and brackish waters of the colony, and on all shores of such waters or any part thereof.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS.

1. The close season for seals prescribed by regulations made by Order in Council dated the 21st day of December, 1894, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 1, of the 4th day of January, 1895, and which was, by Order in Council dated the 28th day of February, 1899, extended up to the 30th day of June, 1900, is hereby further extended up to the 30th day of June, 1901.

2. Every person who, during the close season prescribed as aforesaid, takes any seal is liable to a penalty of not less than £25 nor more than £500, and in addition thereto is liable to a further penalty of not less than £1 nor more than £20 in respect of every seal so taken. The taking of seals means and includes the killing, catching, dredging for, raising, or hunting of any seal, or any attempt so to do.

3. No person shall buy, sell, expose for sale, consign for sale, buy for sale, or have in possession any seal, or any skins, oil, or blubber from any seal, in any manner in contravention of the said Act or of these regulations; and every person so doing is liable for every such offence to a penalty of not less than £1 nor more than £20.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Parnell Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of March, 1900.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke certain Orders in Council, dated the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, making delegation of certain powers in manner as therein appears; and doth hereby, with the like advice and consent, and in respect of