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granted shall have been complied with as to payment of rent and otherwise.
2nd. That notification shall be given to the Commissioner within one month of the transfer having been effected."

I have examined Mr. Taine and Mr. Hume, (his alleged transferee,) and from their statements have arrived at the following facts:—

Mr. Taine did not, during the year following the issue of his license, nor at any other time, place on the run any sheep whatever belonging to himself. Mr. Hume placed upon it, within the requisite period, the number of ewes required. Mr. Taine had no interest in these sheep, except that he had previously advanced Mr. Hume £100, for which it was understood between them he was to have a security over the sheep, but no written security was taken by him. The terms on which Mr. Hume occupied the run were that he was to pay to the Government the annual rent accruing in respect of the Run, to pay a certain quantity of lambs and wool to Mr. Taine, as rent to him for the use of the Run, and to give up the Run to Mr. Taine when required, there being a sort of understanding that he would not be disturbed for seven years.

The object of the Regulations requiring "the holder" of a License to stock the Run within twelve months, and prohibiting a transfer till that condition is complied with, is to prevent trafficking in Runs, as a marketable commodity, and mere matter of speculation, by parties who having got a License issued to them without the intention of stocking the Run granted, may exact from others higher terms than those demanded by the Government, deriving a profit from the transaction.

The arrangement between Mr. Taine and Mr. Hume appears to me precisely of the character which those Regulations were intended to prevent.

I cannot allow that Mr. Taine has stocked the Run in question as the Regulation requires, and in conformity with the 7th section of Regulation XI., I declare his License to be forfeited.

Under these circumstances it is unnecessary to decide whether there was an actual transfer of Mr. Taine's interest in the Run to Mr. Hume, but if there were, it was clearly void for want of the notification to the Commissioner required by Regulation XIII.

WILLIAM FOX,
Chief Land Commissioner.
Chief Land Commissioner's
Office, Wellington,
12th May, 1857.

FORFEITURE OF PASTORAL LICENSE.

WHEREAS in pursuance of the "Regulations for the licensed occupation of the "Public Pasture Lands of the Province of Wellington," a License dated the 1st. April, 1856, was issued by FRANCIS DILLON BELL, Esq., late Land Commissioner at Wellington, to James John Taine, entitling him to depasture stock upon a certain Run, estimated to contain 14,000 acres, the boundaries of which are as follows:—

SOUTH—The Northern Boundary of Mr. Meredith's Run, from Waihora to Kahumingi rivers—thence down the Kahumingi to the confluence of the Biscuit Creek. WEST—The Biscuit Creek, and a line from that Creek to Poronui on the Mangapakeha river. NORTH—A line from Poronui running South-Easterly to the head of a Creek falling into the Mangapokia river, thence down that river into the Warehama river. EAST—The Warehama river.

AND WHEREAS, the said James John Taine, did not, as the holder of such license as aforesaid, within 12 months after the issue thereof, place on the said Run one breeding ewe for every 20 acres or one cow or more for every 120 acres, as required by the Land Regulations under which the said license was issued, where-by the said license so issued to him as aforesaid hath ceased and determined.

Now I, WILLIAM FOX, Chief Land Commissioner for the Province of Wellington, do hereby notify, that the said license so issued to the said James John Taine been, and is forfeited by reason of his non-compliance with the said Regulations. AND I do hereby give notice that I will on Monday the 22nd June next, at noon, at my office in Wellington, let the said Run to the highest bidder for a term of 14 years, subject to the conditions of the Regulations aforesaid.

WILLIAM FOX,
Chief Land Commissioner.
Chief Land Commissioner's
Office, Wellington,
13th May, 1857.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Islands of New Zealand.

I, ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington aforesaid, do hereby Proclaim and Notify that the lands described in the annexed Schedule will be open for public