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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 21, 21 November 1861, Page 4

Superintendent’s Office, Napier, Oct. 11, 1861. /"HEREAS an Act, intituled “ The Hawke’s VV Bay Naval and Military Settlers’ Act, 1861,” was notified in the “ New Zealand Gazette” of the 14th Sept., 1861, as having been assented to by His Excellency the Governor, —the public are hereby informed that the said Act is now in force in the Province of Hawke’s Bay. J. C. LAMBTON CARTER, ' Superintendent. "HAWKE’S BAY NAYAL AND MILITARY SETTLERS’ ACT, 1861.” NOTICE. Whereas the above-named Act was passed in the last session of the General Assembly, and whereas the said Act is now in force in the Province of Hawke’s Bay. Notice is hereby given that applications will be received at this office, under the provisions of the said Act, and the Auckland “ Waste Lands Act, 1858,” (extracts from which are appended hereto), until the expiration of six months from the date of the Act coming into operation, as set forth in Section 111. Extract. Section ll.—The said hereinbefore recited provisions of the “Waste Lands Act, 1858,” relating to naval and military settlers, shall relate to and include, and shall be deemed to have related to, and to have included the said Province of Hawke’s Bay. Section lII.—No person shall be disqualified from obtaining a land order under the said Act by reason of his not having applied for the same before the 9th day of June, 1858 : Provided that such person shall have made such application at any time within six months after the same shall have come into operation. Section IY.—All grants of "waste lands of the Crown heretofore made by or on behalf of Her Majesty to naval and military settlers within the Province of Hawke’s Bay, under regulations in force or deemed to be in force within the said Province, shall be valid and effectual in the law—any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Extract from the Auckland “Waste Lands Act , 1858.” Every naval and military officer, whether on full or half pay, and every non-commissioned officer and private, marine or seaman, whether belonging to Her Majesty’s service or to the service of the East India Company, who may retire or obtain his discharge from the service to which he may belong, or who, having retired or obtained his discharge for the purpose aforesaid, has not selected land under any former law or regulation enabling naval and military settlers to select land free of cost, shall be entitled (in lieu of an allowance in respect of money expended in passages as hereinbefore provided in respect of settlers emigrating from the United Kingdom and elsewhere) to receive from the Commissioner a land order enabling him to acquire land free of cost after the following rate : Commissioned officers 400 acres. Non-commissioned and warrant officers.. SO acres. Private soldier, marine, and seaman 60 acres. Provided always that any such non-commissioned officer and private, and any marine and seaman, before he shall be entitled to receive any such laud order, shall prove to the satisfaction of the Commissioner by certificate or otherwise that he retired or obtained his discharge for the pin-pose of settling in the Province of Auckland ; and any non-commissioned officer or private, marine or seaman, shall, at the same time, produce to the Commissioner a certificate from the officer under whom he may have served of having during his period of service been of good character. CHARLES LAMBERT, Acting Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Land Office, Napier, Oct. 11, 1861. To be Let, A TWO-ROOMED HOUSE, situated at the end of Shakespeare-road. Rent moderate. Apply to F. SUTTON. ■piOß SALE AND LEASE Town and Suburban Land in Napier, Havelock, Poraugahau, Black Head, &c. BLOCKS OF RURAL LAND. HOUSES for Sale and to Let, containing from 2 to 5 Rooms. —Apply to ANDREW LUFF, Land and General Agent, Shakspeare Road. OTAGO. Thomas Norton & Co., AUCTIONEERS, HORSE, SHEEP, & CATTLE SALESMEN. SHIPPING, CUSTOM HOUSE, AND COMMISSION AGENTS. Ships Entries and Clearances effected. THOMAS NORTON & Co., Stafford-street, Near Jetty, Dunedin. F. TUEMMEL, TAILOR, SHAKESPEARE ROAD, Napier. T. B. HARDING, Plumber, Glazier, Painter, Paperhanger, &c., Mardinge road; Eastern Spit, (Opposite Messrs. J. A. Smith & Co.’s Warehouses.) OILS, Turpentine, Varnish, Prepared Paints, Paperhangings, Window Glass, &c., always on sale at reasonable pricesOrders for every description of Painter’s work promptly attended to.