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jurisdiction within the Province of Otago, that is to say—

THOMAS MORLAND HOCKEN,
THOMAS FRASER,
EDWIN RICH,
WILLIAM ROBERT GILLING SAMUELS,
JOHN DEWE,
THOMAS WINDLE PARKER.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, this fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

ALFRED DOMETT.

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 6th July, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT HENRY FORMAN, Esq., of Dunedin, Otago,

JOHN ORBELL, Esq., of Hawkesbury, Otago, and

JAMES KELHAM, Esq., of Wellington,

to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 6th July, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct the publication, for general information, of the following conditions upon which land situated between Omata and Tataraimaka, in the Province of Taranaki, will be granted to settlers.

ALFRED DOMETT.

NEW ZEALAND.

CONDITIONS upon which land situate between Omata and Tataraimaka, in the Province of Taranaki, will be granted to settlers :—

1. Settlements will be surveyed and marked out at the expense of the Government.

2. Each settlement will comprise not less than 100 town allotments and 100 farm sections.

3. A stockade on the most eligible site in each settlement will be erected at the expense of the Government.

4. A town will be laid out around or as near as conveniently may be to the stockade in one acre allotments.

5. Farms will be laid out around, or as near as conveniently may be, to the town, in sections of 50 acres each.

6. Every settler under these conditions will be entitled to one town allotment and one farm section.

7. Priority of choice will be determined by lot.

8. No man above the age of 45 years will be accepted, and every applicant will be subject to an examination by an officer appointed by the Governor, and must produce such certificates of good health, character, and general fitness for the service, as such officer shall require.

9. Each accepted applicant will be provided, at the expense of the Government, with a steerage passage to New Plymouth. Before embarkation, he will be required to sign a declaration and agreement to the effect that he understands and will be bound by and fulfil these conditions.

10. On arrival at New Plymouth, he will be enrolled and required to serve in the Taranaki Militia. He will be entitled to pay and rations accordingly until he is authorised by the Government to take possession of his land, when he will be relieved of “actual service.”

11. After taking possession he will be entitled to receive rations, free of cost for twelve months, upon the same scale as supplied to Her Majesty’s troops; he will be allowed to retain possession, as a Militiaman, of his arms and accoutrements, and he will be supplied with ammunition for use according to Militia Regulations.

12. No settler after taking possession will be permitted during the first three years after his arrival at New Plymouth to absent himself from his settlement for more than one calendar month in any one year without the leave of the Governor first obtained.

13. During such three years he will be liable to be trained and exercised as other Militiamen; and whenever a portion only of the Taranaki Militia shall be called out for actual service, each settler will be deemed to be a volunteer Militiaman, and will be required to serve as such. During such service he will be entitled to the same pay, rations, and allowance, as other Militiamen.

14. On the expiration of three years from the day of his arrival at New Plymouth, each settler, having fulfilled the conditions, but not otherwise, will be entitled to a Crown Grant of the Town allotment and farm section allotted to him; and will thenceforth be subject only to the same Militia services as other colonists.

15. Any settler desiring to leave his settlement will be permitted to do so—on