RURAL LANDS.

The following Applications for Rural Lands were received at the Land Office, Dunedin from the 19th day of August to the 6th day of September, 1864, both days inclusive:—

9420 Robert and Hugh Kellas and Donald Brown, Clutha, section 13, block 42, 50a.

9421 Duncan M’Donald, North Harbour and Blueskin, section 1 of 81, block 7, 20a. 2r. 50p.

9422 Richard White, North Harbour and Blueskin, sections 3 of 78 and 1 of 79, block 7, 54a. 9p.

9423 Donald Bennie, Papakio, section 1, block 12, 39a. 3r. 39p.

9424 A. Sibald, Papakio, sections 111 and 112, block 2, 19a. 3r. 38p.

9425 Hunter Strauchan, Moeraki, section 61, block 6, 39a. 1r. 11p.

9426* Mathew Todd, Moeraki, section 10, block 6, 80a. 32p.

9427* Adam Anderson, Otepopo, section 1 of 9, block 6, 67a. 2r. 25p.

9428* George Ledingham, Otepopo, sections 1 of 9, 159 and 162, block 6, 278a. 1r. 14p.

9429* George Ledingham, Moeraki, sections 10 and 56, block 6, 152a. 3r. 35p.

9430* Peter Williams, Otepopo, section 1 of 9, block 6, 67a. 2r. 25p.

9431 Fred. H. Richardson, Marama, Run 65, Out-station, 10a.

9432 James Hastie, Hillend, sections 1 and 57, block 3, 146a. 3r. 17p.

9433* John Muir, Moeraki, section 10, block 6, 80a. 32p.

9435 Robert Stuart, Run 167A, Homestead, 80a.

9436 James Black, North Tuakitoto, section 1, block 1, 50a.

9437 John Muir, Moeraki, sections 3, 4, and 5, block 6, 221a. 2r. 29p.

9438 John Percy Anquetil, North Harbour and Blueskin, sections 76 and 77, block 7, 91a. 15p.

9439 Francis Dyer Rich, Moeraki, sections 37 and 38, block 6, 142a. 2r. 38p.

9440 James Porteous, Glenomaru, section 1 of 10, block 2, 126a. 2r. 9p.

9441 George Blacklock, Warepa, sections 46 and 1 of 47, block 4, 178a. 1r. 36p.

9442 William Hamilton, Maungatua, sections 7 and 9, block 4, 157a. 3r. 4p.

9443 John Reid, Oamaru, sections 3 to 14, 17 to 19, 23 to 34, block 13.

9444 David Carruthers, Maungatua, section 10, block 4, 80a. 15p.

9445 Hugh Wylie, Maungatua, section 11, block 4, 81a. 11p.

9446 John Reid, Papakaio, sections 2 to 4, 9 to 12, 26, 27, 32 to 98, block 1.

9447 John Reid, Papakaio, sections 29 to 43, 91 to 99, and 102, block 2.

9448 William Shand, Maungatua, sections 34 to 38, 29 to 31, block 4, and 50, block 3.

9449 William Milne, Maungatua, sections 39 and 40, block 4, 211a. 20p.

9450 John Nylun, Otago Peninsula, section 45, block 9, 37a. 2r. 14p.

9451 J. L. C. Richardson, Glenomaru, part of sections 1 and 2, block 1, 4a. 2r. 5p.

9452 J. L. C. Richardson, Warepa, adjoining application 671, 4a. 2r. 5p.

9453 Alexander Campbell, Dunedin and East Taieri, section 1 of 31, block 30.

The above applications will be decided at this Office, on Monday, the 19th day of September. Those marked thus * by auction, at 12 o’clock noon.

W. H. CUTTEN,

Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,

Dunedin, 6th September, 1864.

(From New Zealand Gazette, September 1st, 1864.)

A PROCLAMATION

Bringing the Dunedin Savings Bank under the operation of the “Savings Bank Act, 1858.”

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

In exercise of the power vested in me by the “Savings Bank Act, 1858,” I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby annul the Proclamation given under my hand on the 23rd December, 1863, bringing the Dunedin Savings Bank within the operation of the “Savings Bank Act, 1858,” from that date, and do hereby proclaim that the said Bank shall come within the operation of the said Act from the 1st day of September, 1864.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

THOMAS RUSSELL.

God save the Queen!

A PROCLAMATION

Intimating Her Majesty’s Assent to certain Bills passed by the General Assembly.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty’s reign, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is amongst other things enacted that no Bill which shall be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure thereon shall have any force or authority within the Colony of New Zealand until the Governor of the said Colony shall signify by speech or message to the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said Colony, or by Proclamation, that such Bill has been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same:

And whereas certain Bills passed by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said Colony, intituled

“An Act to amend the Waste Lands Acts of the Province of Auckland:”

“An Act to amend the Regulations in force in the Province of Marlborough for the sale and disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the said Province,” and

“An Act to repeal Clause 15, Waste Land Act, 1858, Section VII., Clause 28 of the General Land Regulations for the Sale of Waste Lands in New Zealand, proclaimed 4th March 1853,”

have been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, do proclaim that the said Acts have received Her Majesty’s assent.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

THOMAS RUSSELL.

God save the Queen!