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should provide themselves with a Certificate from
the Office of the General Commanding-in-Chief, or
of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, or
of the Master General of the Ordnance, shewing
that their settlement in a British Colony has been
sanctioned, and stating their rank and length of
service. No document from the Office of the Se-
cretary of State is necessary.

4. This Certificate will not on any account be is-
   sued more than once to the same Officer, or to any
   Officer on half pay who shall for two years imme-
   diately preceding the date of this Notice have resi-
   ded in the Colony in which he seeks to make it
   available.

5. Gentlemen who have ceased to belong to Her
   Majesty's service will not be allowed advantages in
   the acquisition of land. This rule, however, is not
   to affect Officers who, having obtained permission to
   settle in a British Colony, have quitted the service
   for the purpose of doing so. But, in such cases, it
   will be necessary that their Certificate of service and
   permission should bear the date of their retirement
   from the service, and that within one year from that
   date, but not otherwise, it should be presented to
   the Governor of one of the above named Colonies,
   which will be sufficient warrant for allowing the
   bearer the advantages to which his rank and length
   of service may entitle him according to the above
   scale.

6. The object of the Regulations being to encou-
   rage the permanent settlement in the above named
   Colonies of Military and Naval Officers, and it be-
   ing necessary to prevent those who have no inten-
   tion of settling there from taking advantage of the
   privilege, Officers will not, for the space of two years
   from the making out of their Certificates, receive a
   Crown Grant for any land purchased by such Cer-
   tificate, but will, in the mean time, receive a "Lo-
   cation Ticket." At the expiration of two years, the
   Officer, on shewing to the satisfaction of the Gov-
   ernor that he is bond fide a resident Settler in the
   Colony, and has so resided continuously since re-
   ceiving his "Location Ticket," will be entitled to a
   Crown Grant in exchange for it. If, however, ap-
   plication should not be made for the exchange of
   the "Location Ticket" within twelve months from
   the expiration of the two years for which it is grant-
   ed, it will be considered to have lapsed, and the
   land will be open to sale or grant. In case of the
   Officer's dying while holding a "Location Ticket,"
   the land to which it refers will be transferred to his
   legal representative.

In case of such death occurring before the "Lo-
cation Ticket" is obtained, the Governor of the Co-
lony is authorised to make the certificate available
in favour of the child, or other nearest representative
of the deceased Officer, as he may find advisable.

7. For the convenience of Officers, the following
   heads are subjoined of the Rules for the sale of Land
   in the Australian Settlements:—

All Lands are disposed of by sale alone, and must
have been once at least exposed to public auction.

The lowest upset price is not less than £1 per
acre; but the Government has power to raise
the same by Proclamation, though not again to
reduce it.

The lands are distinguished into three different
classes; viz., Town Lots, Suburban Lots, and
Country Lots.

Upon Town and Suburban Lots, as well as upon
a proportion not exceeding one-tenth of the
whole of the Country Lots offered for sale at
any auction, the Governor has the power of
fixing a higher than the general or lowest up-
set price: these last to be designated "Special
Country Lots."

Town and Suburban Lots are in no case disposed
of except by public auction; but Country
Lots, which have already been put up to pub-
lic auction, and not sold, may be disposed of
afterwards by private contract at the upset
price.

No Lands are sold by private contract, except for
ready money. When sold by public auction,
one-tenth at least of the whole purchase-money
must be put down, and the remainder within
one calendar month, or the deposit is forfeited.
Lands are put up for sale in Lots not exceeding
one square mile in extent.

8. In Ceylon, Land is sold by auction at an up-
   pet price, which is to be fixed by the Governor, but
   which is not to be less than £1 per acre. Before
   the Lands are exposed for sale, they will be sur-
   veyed by the Government, and duly advertised.

9. At the Cape of Good Hope, the upset price is
   2s. per acre in the old Colony, and 4s. per acre in
   the District of Natal.

10. The several prices above-mentioned are of
    course subject to a revision at any time by the pro-
    per authorities, and the pecuniary amount of the
    Remission made to Officers cannot be increased on
    account of an increased value set upon the Lands.

July, 1853.

BOUNDARIES OF ALLOTMENTS.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
21st December, 1857.

IT being found desirable to give publicity
to the practice of the Land Office in the
survey of boundaries of allotments obtained
from the Crown, Notice is hereby given that
the front boundaries of such allotments are
pegged out, and direction lines indicating
the boundaries are, upon the application of
the owners, laid off by the Government
Surveyor, the applicant providing the labor
requisite for the purpose.

I. N. WATT,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
New Plymouth, 17th December, 1857.

THE following letter on the subject of
Steam Communication is published for
general information.

I. N. WATT,
Provincial Secretary.

[COPY.]

The New Zealand and Australian Mail
Steam Navigation Company, Limited,
15, St. Mary Axe, London.
16th September, 1857.

Sir,—I beg to inform you that the above
Company has this day completed arrange-
ments with the Imperial Government and
with Mr. Sewell on behalf of that of New
Zealand for the conveyance of Her Majes-
ty's mails between New Zealand, Australia
and the different Provinces of the first
named Colony, and furthermore that the
necessary steam ships will be despatched to
the colony with as little delay as possible
to assume their various stations.

I have, &c.,
(signed) FREDK. F. GIBBS,
Manager.

To His Honor
The Superintendent,
New Plymouth.