2. Notice of every such sale shall be pub-
   lished in the New Zealand Gazette not less
   than thirty days before the date thereof.

3. Auctions shall be conducted by the Com-
   missioner of Crown Lands for Taranaki, or such
   other person and at such place as the Colonial
   Secretary may authorize in that behalf.

4. The bidding shall be for priority of choice,
   and every choice shall be put up at such rate
   per acre, not being less than ten shillings in
   the case of the open land, or five shillings in
   the case of forest land, as the Colonial Secretary
   may direct.

5. No single order of choice shall entitle the
   purchaser to select more than five hundred nor
   less than one hundred acres, or to select in
   several allotments: Provided that where small
   pieces of land shall have been left intervening
   between previous selections, the Commissioner
   or other person conducting the auction may al-
   low them to be taken under one order of choice:
   Provided also that several allotments divided
   only by roads may be chosen under one order of
   choice.

6. Immediately upon any order of choice
   being knocked down, the purchaser shall des-
   cribe the position and area of the allotment he
   chooses, and such allotment shall be at once
   drawn provisionally on the plan of the block.

7. Every selection shall be subject to the
   regulations as to frontage and proportions in
   force in the Province of Taranaki with respect
   to general Crown Lands.

8. Every selection shall be subject to reason-
   able modification of size, form, and position, on
   completion of the detailed survey.

9. No selection shall be made so as to leave
   patches of less than fifty acres in area or of ir-
   regular shape intervening between it and pre-
   vious allotments, and, in the construction of this
   regulation, the decision of the Commissioner
   or other person conducting the sale shall be final.

10. Every selection shall be subject to any
    road that may at the day of sale be drawn upon
    the official map then exhibited, or to any road
    that may be ordered by the Commissioner of
    Crown Lands or other person duly authorised
    by the Colonial Secretary within five years after
    the selection.

11. One-fourth of the purchase money at auc-
    tion shall be paid to the Commissioner or other
    person conducting the sale on the fall of the
    hammer. A second instalment of one-fourth in
    three calendar months, and the balance in nine
    months, either to the Commissioner at the Land
    Office, Taranaki, or to the Colonial Treasurer,
    failing any of which instalments the previous
    payments shall be forfeited: Provided that if
    upon the detailed survey any modification re-
    ducing the size of an allotment shall be made, or
    if any road shall have been ordered under the
    last preceding regulation, a deduction from the
    last instalment of purchase money shall be made
    in proportion to the area of such reduction or
    road.

12. The unsold portions of every block shall
    after auction, and until specially withdrawn, re-
    main open for purchase at the Land Office, New
    Plymouth, or at such other place as the Colonial
    Secretary may from time to time direct, for cash,
    payable at the Land Office, New Plymouth, at
    the upset price at which the lands within such
    block were respectively offered, and in lots not
    exceeding five hundred nor less than one hun-
    dred acres, to be selected according to the order
    of application, and subject to regulations six,
    seven, eight, nine, and ten. All such applica-
    tions should be in writing, addressed to the Com-
    missioner or other authorised person, who shall,
    upon receipt of each application, sign his name
    and the date of receipt thereon. No selection
    under any such application shall be made before
    noon on any day. All applications received be-
    fore noon on any one day shall be deemed con-
    temporaneous, and in case of two or more con-
    temporaneous applications, the Commissioner or
    other authorised person shall, at the request of
    any of the applicants, put up the right of prior
    selection to auction among the applicants.

13. The Colonial Secretary may at any time
    withdraw from sale the whole or any part of a
    block, and the Governor may at any time make
    such reserves therein as he is by law em-
    powered to make.

14. The Government shall not be bound to
    complete the detailed survey of any selection
    within twelve months of the date of selection:
    Provided that a purchaser, desiring a survey at
    any earlier date, may apply for a special survey,
    paying for the same at the rate of sixpence per
    acre, which payment shall be returned to him
    if such special survey should not be completed
    within the specified time.

15. A skeleton map of every block shall be
    deposited for public information one fortnight
    before each block is offered for sale at the
    office of the Secretary for Crown Lands, Wel-
    lington, and at the Land Office, New Plymouth,
    and at such places as the Colonial Secretary may
    direct in Auckland, Wanganui, Patea, Napier,
    Nelson, Blenheim, Christchurch, Hokitika,
    Dunedin, and Invercargill.

16. All powers conferred and all duties im-
    posed on the Colonial Secretary under these
    regulations may be exercised and performed by
    the Minister for the time being in charge of con-
    fiscated lands.

F. D. FENTON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.