Peter Lorenzen, Advance Company, for 10 acres of land on north side of Miller’s Lease, Londonderry terrace, Queenstown district;

William Fuller, Sawyers’ Reef Quartz Mining Company, for section 4, block 10, Skipper’s Creek, Queenstown district;

Andrew Southberg, Victorian Sluicing Company, for section 9, block 11, Shotover, Queenstown district;

Thomas Brown, Manuherikia Ground Sluicing Company, for 10 acres of land, Lower Manuherikia;

for gold mining purposes, have been withdrawn, and the said land is open for occupation by holders of miner’s rights.

GEORGE DUNCAN,
Secretary for Land and Works.

Land and Works Office,
Dunedin, 1st April, 1868.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Applications of James Smith and party, for section 1, Whitecomb district, Potter’s, No. 2; Alexander Carnie, for 5 acres of land on north-west side of Winding Creek, Pig Hunter’s Point, Nokomai; for gold mining purposes, have been disallowed by the Government, and the said land is open for occupation by holders of miner’s rights.

GEO. DUNCAN,
Secretary for Land and Works.

Native Lands Court Office,
Auckland, March 17, 1868.

WHEREAS by the Native Lands Act, 1867, it is amongst other things provided that in any case where, under the said Act (the Native Lands Act, 1867), the Court would not have had jurisdiction, it shall be competent to the said Court to inquire into and determine any question affecting the sub-division of, or any title to or interest in, any native reserve, which may be referred to it by the Governor: And whereas the Governor, by a warrant under his hand, dated the 24th day of February last, did refer to the Native Lands Court to determine who are the natives interested in the reserve hereunder described, and to order the sub-division of the same amongst those natives whom may be so interested, in such manner as to the said Court shall seem fit, and to order certificates to be issued according to the plan of such sub-division, in such or like manner as is provided in the 17th section of the “Native Lands Act, 1867.”

Now notice is hereby given, that at the sitting of this Court, to be held at Dunedin on the 27th of April next and following days, will be heard and determined the matter referred as aforesaid.

(L.S.)

A. J. DICKEY,
Chief Clerk.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece of land, situate at the eastern extremity of the Otago Peninsula, bounded on the west by the Portobello District, on the east partly by the Pilot Station and partly by the ocean, and on the north by the waters of the Lower Harbour of Otago.

Kooti Whakawa Whenua Maori,
Akarana, 17 Maehe, 1868.

NOTEMEA, i runga i nga ritenga o “Te Ture mo nga whenua Maori, 1867,” kua oti te whakarite i roto i era atu mea ki te mea ka puta ake tetahi mea efore nei e taea e te Kooti i runga i nga ritenga o taua Ture nei (“Ture mo nga whenua Maori, 1867”), hei tika kia taea e te Kooti te kimi te tikanga te whakaoti marire nga taha Katoa e whai panga ana ki te wehe wehe nga o tetahi whenua, nga take whenua ranei, urunga ranei ki roto ki tetahi whenua Rahui e tukuna atu ana e te Kawana ki te Kooti.

Na no te mea, ko te Kawana, ma tetahi Warati he mea tuku atu i raro i tona ringa i te 240 nga ra o Pepuere kua 1 ahure nei kua tukua mai nei ki te Kooti mo nga whenua Maori kia kimihia e taua Kooti, ko wai ma ranei nga tangata Maori e whai tikanga ana ki tenei whenua Rahui e tchutuhunga nei, a kia whakaritea e te Kooti kia wehewehetia taua Rahui nei ki nga tangata e kitea te ratou tika ki taua whenua ki ta te Kooti e kite ai he tika; a kia whakaritea e te Kooti kia whakaputaina atu he pukapuka whakatuturu take i runga i nga ritenga o taua wehewehenga, i runga i nga ritenga hoki kua takoto ki te teka ma whitu o nga rarangi o te “Ture mo nga whenua Maori, 1867.”

Na, he Panuitanga tenei kia mohiotia ai, kei te nohoanga o tenei Kooti ki Dunedin, Otakou, a te 27 o Aperira, 1868, te whakarongona ai te kimihia ai ano hoki una mea kua tukuamai nei, perame nga korero ki~runga akenei.

(L.S.)

NA TIRI,
Tino Kai tuhi tuhi.

KUPU APITI.

Ko taua whenua katouite pito whakate Rawhiti o te Rae o Otakou. Ko te rohe kite Hauauru, ko te Takiwa o Portobello; ko to te tia~hiti, ko te whenua o te Pairata me te moana; ko to te Tonga me to Tonga Rawhiti, ko te Moana; ko to Rare ko te taio te kokorutanga Id wahoo Otakou.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that he has appointed the following members of the Constabulary force to be Deputy Registrars of Cattle and Sheep for the districts mentioned after their respective names :-

Mounted Constable John King — Blueskin district
Mounted Constable James Carter — West Taieri do
Sergt.-Major Samuel Moore — Waikouaiti do
Sergeant Robert Bullen — Oamaru do
Sergeant Frederick Mallard — Port Chalmers do
Mounted Const. Thos. Meredith Smith — Tuapeka do
Mounted Constable Hugh Black — Do do
Mounted Constable John Dunne — Do do
Mounted Constable Thos. M’Gunn — Queenstown do
Constable Michael Hunt — Do do
Sergeant Francis Bullen — Switzer’s do
Sergeant Andrew Thompson — Clyde do
Sergeant Thomas Neil — Do do
Sergeant William Cobden — Molyneux do
Constable Joseph Albert — Do do
Constable George Cruickshank — Mount Benger do
Sergeant Adam John M’Cluskey — Black’s do
Constable John Morton — Do do
Sergeant John M’Nally — Mount Ida do
Constable Patrick Finnegan — Do do
Constable John Rooney — Do do

JULIUS VOGEL,
Provincial Secretary.

25th March, 1868.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that he has appointed MR. GEORGE BARTHOLOMEW MITCHELL, to be acting Harbor Master at Port Molyneux, without salary.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Provincial Secretary.

March, 26th, 1868.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified, that he has appointed the following members of the Police force to be Inspectors of slaughter yards, and of cattle intended for slaughter, within the district mentioned below after their names.

Mounted Constable Thomas Meredith Smith, No. 422, and Mounted Constable Hugh Black, No. 507, both for the Tuapeka district, vice Purdie transferred.

Mounted Constable George Bartholomew Purdie, No. 350, for the East Taieri district, vice Black transferred.

JULIUS VOGEL,
Provincial Secretary.

March, 26th, 1868.