NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

[PROVINCE OF OTAGO.]

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

W. CARGILL, Superintendent.

Vol. II.] TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1854. [No. 14.

NOTICE.

Superintendent's Office,
Dunedin, 24th November 1854.

THE SUPERINTENDENT of the Province of Otago hereby publishes the following Documents for the information of the Inhabitants of this Province.

W. CANGILL, Superintendent.

Copy Resolution of Provincial Council at Otago—adopted 14th November 1854.

"In the opinion of this House, it is essential that the whole administration of the waste lands of this Province should be placed upon a distinct and permanent footing at the earliest possible date, and that such terms of purchase and pasturage with respect to such lands as shall be most in accordance with the wants and wishes of the majority of the settlers, should be established; and that pending the consideration and adjustment of this question, it is desirable that steps should be taken whereby individuals requiring bona fide occupation of rural and suburban lands should at once be permitted to occupy the same on paying a deposit of 5s. an acre, and to give an obligation for the bona fide occupation and cultivation of said lands to such an extent as may be hereafter fixed, and to fulfil whatever terms may be ultimately determined on before they receive title to such lands.

"That a stop be put to the sale of all Bush Lands in every place where there is any considerable extent of open land available for occupation and cultivation, with only a small extent of Bush in the neighbourhood, and that in no case shall more than one-tenth part of any land sold be Bush Land, until suitable and permanent arrangements are made for the proper disposal of Bush Lands.

"That in reference to Pasturage Regulations, this House is of opinion that the present Holders of Runs within the Province for a term of years should not be disturbed in their occupation of such Runs.

"That a respectful address be transmitted to His Honor the Superintendent, requesting that he may be pleased to adopt such measures as shall carry the foregoing resolution into effect."

ARCHIBALD ANDERSON,
Speaker.

Superintendent's Office,
Dunedin, 22nd November 1854.

WALTER MANTLE, Esquire,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Dunedin.

Sir,—I have the honor to enclose you a copy of Resolutions adopted by the Provincial Council of Otago, with a view, in the present transitional state of the Land question, to avert inconvenience to parties requiring for actual occupation the immediate possession of portions of Rural and Suburban Lands within the Otago Block or Hundreds.

Being desirous of giving effect to this measure under Regulations of the Provincial Government, and referring you to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary's Despatch, of which a copy was enclosed in my letter to you of 3rd July last, I have to request that you will sell no more lands within the Otago Block or Hundreds until the Terms of Purchase shall have been fixed (with or without alteration) by authority of the General Assembly of New Zealand.—I have the honor to be,

Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
W. CANGILL, Superintendent.