Public Notice.

Crown Land’s Office,
Wellington, 13th July, 1868.

NOTICE is hereby given that 14 Sections in the Morea, Turanganui and Rangitumau Blocks, and in the settlement of Masterton in the Wairarapa district; in the Taueru Block in the East Coast district; and in the Porirua district, will be put up for sale by public auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington, on Tuesday, the 18th day of August next, at one o’clock, p.m.

Notice is also given that a Block of land on the Wangaehu river, Wairarapa, containing about 390 acres, will be open for selection and purchase on and after Monday, the 17th day of August next, under the Land Regulations of the province.

For further particulars see Provincial Government Gazette, No. 24, of 15th July, instant.

Plans of the land are open for inspection at this office.

Jos. G. HOLDSWORTH,
Deputy Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Title extinguished over Lands in the Wairarapa.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, July 4, 1868.)

Native Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 30th June, 1868.

NOTICE.—His Excellency the Governor of this Colony has been pleased to direct the notification to be made for public information that, pursuant to the powers in that behalf delegated to and vested in him, His Excellency has been pleased to accept the conveyances hereinafter mentioned of blocks of land from aboriginal Native inhabitants of New Zealand to Her Majesty the Queen, that is to say,—from Wiremu Tinitara Te Kaewa and Karaitiana Korou, aboriginal Natives of the tribe Ngatikaungunu, a conveyance of all that block or pieces of land, situated at Wairarapa and named Wangaehu, bounded towards the North by Native land, and by disputed land from the Wangaehu River to Taungatara and Pukawa; towards the East by Native land from Pukawa to Purupuru; towards the South partly by Crown land and partly by Native lands, from Purupuru to the Wangaehu River; and towards the West by the Wangaehu River.

From Karaitiana Korou and Erihapeti Whekairae, aboriginal Natives of the tribe Ngatikahunghu, a conveyance of all that block or piece of land situated at Wairarapa, and named Te Kohutu, bounded towards the north-west by a public road separating it from the Masterton Small Farm Reserve: towards the north-east by the Makaura Stream; towards the south-east by Native land; towards the south-west by the Kurupuni stream.

J. C. RICHMOND.

Acts assented to and left to operation:

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th June, 1868.

THE following Bill passed by the Provincial Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, intituled

“An Act to authorize the Superintendent to raise by way of mortgage, a sum not exceeding £25,000 on the Unreclaimed Land in the Harbour, granted to him under ‘The Public Reserves Act, 1854,’”

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th June, 1868.

THE following Bill passed by the Provincial Council, and assented to by the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, intituled

“An Act to shorten the notice of Sale of Certain Lots in the Reclaimed Land in Wellington,”

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been advised not to exercise his power of disallowance in respect of that Bill.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Upper Hutt Educational District.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th July, 1868.

NOTICE is hereby given that it has been certified to this Office, that

Mr. John Row

was elected Collector of the Education Rate for the above District on the 29th June last.

A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE,
Provincial Secretary.

Sheep Inspector’s Reports.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1868.

THE following reports are published for general information.

A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE,
Provincial Secretary.

Sheep Inspector’s Office,
Wellington, 30th June, 1868.

To the Provincial Secretary,
&c., &c., &c.

SIR,—I have the honor to inform you that at 11.30 a.m. this day I inspected a flock of sheep, depasturing at Berhampore, in possession of Mr. W. Luxford, sen., and find they are infected with scab, the description of the sheep inspected are as follows:—