Aug. 23. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1607

any compensation whatever, on giving to the licensees six
calendar months’ previous notice in writing. Any such
notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister, and
delivered at or posted to the last known address of the
licensees, or either of them, in New Zealand.
12. The licensees shall be liable for any injury which the
said wharf or tramway may cause any vessel or boat to
sustain through any default or neglect on their part.
13. In case the licensees shall—
(1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions herein-
before set forth, or any of them;
(2.) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf or tramway
for a period of thirty days;
(3.) Become bankrupt, or be in any manner brought
under the operation of any Act for the time being
in force relating to bankruptcy; or
(4.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause 3 of these
conditions,
then and in either of the said cases this Order in Council
and every right, power, or privilege may be revoked and
determined by the Governor in Council without any notice
to the licensees or other proceeding whatsoever; and pub-
lication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council
containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the
licensees, and to all persons concerned or interested, that
this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges
thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and
determined.
14. The construction of the wharf and tramway shall be
sufficient evidence of the acceptance by the licensees of the
terms and conditions of this Order in Council.

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

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Certain Telegraph-offices opened continuously: Regulations
and Charges.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth
day of August, 1900.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Electric Lines Act, 1884” (here-
inafter called “the said Act”), it is enacted that the
Governor by Order in Council from time to time may make,
alter, amend, and revoke regulations in respect of any tele-
graph, for the purposes, inter alia, of the transmission of
telegrams by means of any electric line, and of fixing and
determining the fees and rates to be demanded and received
for the transmission of any telegram: And whereas it is
expedient to make regulations for the transmission of tele-
grams at times not heretofore specified, and for fixing fees
for such transmission in the manner hereinafter mentioned:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and of
all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling him,
and acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the
regulations and fix the fees set forth in the Schedule hereto
for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, and doth order
and declare that such regulations and fees shall have effect
on and after the first day of September, one thousand nine
hundred.

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SCHEDULE.

The telegraph-offices at Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin,
Greymouth, Invercargill, Napier, Oamaru, Timaru, Wanga-
nui, and Wellington, instead of being closed during some
portion or portions of the day or night, shall be opened for
the transaction of public business continuously day and
night, Sundays and holidays not excepted.
For telegrams between any two or more of such offices in
respect of the portion or portions of the day or night
during which such offices shall be opened for public
business beyond the periods during which they are at
present opened therefor, the charges and fees shall be as
stated hereunder:—

TARIFF RATES IN NEW ZEALAND.

Ordinary Telegrams.

From any station to any station:—
For the first 12 words or less, including s. d.
address and signature .. .. .. 0 6
For every additional word .. .. .. 0 1

Urgent Telegrams.

For the first 12 words or less, including s. d.
address and signature .. .. .. 1 0
For every additional word .. .. .. 0 2

Press Telegrams.

WEEK DAYS.

Between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m., and between 9 p.m. and
midnight on Saturdays,—
For every 100 words or fraction of 100 words 2 6

SUNDAYS.

From 5 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.:—
Morning newspapers,—
For every 100 words or fraction of 100
words .. .. .. 0 8
Before 5 p.m. and after 5.30 p.m. (excepting for midnight
Press cable messages),—
For every 100 words or fraction of 100
words .. .. .. 2 6

Evening newspapers may receive short Press telegrams
on Sundays, between 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m., at a rate of 1s.
for every 100 words or fraction thereof. Such telegrams
may not exceed an aggregate number of 300 words for any
one newspaper, and must be confined to news of events
which occur between 9 o’clock on Saturday night and
5.30 p.m. on Sunday.

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

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Rural Land in the Auckland Land District open for Sale
or Selection.

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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall
be open for sale or selection on and after the seventeenth
day of October, one thousand nine hundred; and also that
the land 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 land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as
mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that
the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and
subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—ROTORUA COUNTY.

Unsurveyed Second-class Land.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in
Blocks II. and III., Horohoro Survey District, containing
by admeasurement 2,626 acres, more or less. Bounded
towards the east by Okohiriki No. 1r Nos. 1 and 2 Blocks,
and Section No. 1 of Block III., Horohoro Survey District ;
towards the south-east by Rotohokahoka D Block, by the
Ngongotaha Stream, and by Okohiriki No. 1r Block ; to-
wards the south-west by Crown land opened for selection as
“unsurveyed land” on the 7th December, 1898, and by
Section No. 4 of Block II., Horohoro Survey District ; and
towards the north-west by said Section No. 4, and Crown
land opened for selection as “unsurveyed land” aforesaid,
to the point of commencement.
Description: Nearly all forest, mostly level and undu-
lating, broken towards eastern end; situated from four to
seven miles from Mamaku Railway-station, and from seven
to ten miles from Rotorua.
Cash price, 10s. per acre; occupation with right of pur-
chase, 6d. per acre per annum; lease in perpetuity, 4·8d. per
acre per annum.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this thirtieth day of July, one thousand nine
hundred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.