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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 372, 30 April 1866, Page 6

Government Advertisements. PRELBIIIiif^NOTICE. TEE TWO BLOCKS of LAND on the AHEKiEI PLAINS, Leased from the Natives by the Provincial Government, and for which a certificate of title has been issued to the Native i owners, will, on a day to bo hereafter notified, be i Leased by Auction on the terms set forth in the following Resolution of the Provincial Council herewith published 1865. That this Council is of opinion that all lands in . the Ah urivi Plains, at present acquired for let* Cements upon lease, shall bo disposed of in the folio whig manner;— Each block shall as coon as possible, be laid off in sections. . . Such sections shall, after at least one month’s notice in the Provincial Gazette and in each of the Provincial newspapers, be leased by public auction for the period of time which may remain from the date of the lease from the natives : the upset rate of rent per annum of each section shall to not less than twenty-five per cent higher than the rate paid for the same to the native proprietors. The rent for the fret year of the lease shall he paid to the auctioneer on the fall of the hammer. The rent ior the remaining years of the lease shall be paid half yearly at the expiration of every six months, from the termination of the first year of the lease. In addition to the rent, the lessee of each section shall be liable to pay, on the requisition of a majority of the leaseholders to the Superintendent, such sum, not exceeding the rate of ten shillings for each acre contained within his section ; the sumo to be expended under the direction of the Provincial Engineer for purpose of drainage or for the formation of any bye-roads within the block. The leaseholder of each section shall be compelled by the terms of his lease to fence in his section within twelve months from the date' thereof, and to cultivate at least one-tenth of it within the same period. Any leaseholder failing to comply with either of these conditions shall forfeit his lease, which thall then bo again put up to auction and disposed of as before set forth: Provided that in such case the second lessee shall in addition to the one year’s rent payable in advance, be liable also for one half of the cost of any sufficient dividing fence that may have been erected by any adjoining leaseholder. The Provincial Government shall give an undertaking that in case of the lands, or any part thereof, contained in any block leased under these conditions becoming tbe property of the Govergment, s pre-emptive right of purchase cf the D.nd contained in bis lease shall be given to each leaseholder, such pre-emptive right to he subject to the payment of a valuation to be fixed by arbitration (in the usual manner,) such valuation not to include any improvements that may have been effected by the leaseholder, nor to be a less sum than the total cost to the Government of such land : Provided that any such promise of pre-emptive right as aforesaid given to any leaseholder who may forfeit his lease shall be null and void. 1 All moneys accruing under fhese regulations shall be paid to tao Provincial Treasurer. : i Plane shewing tho size of the Allotments will be duly published,, a further Notice will be given of the day on which tbe lands will be offered to public competition. DONALD M‘LEAN, Superintendent. 0m ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF NAPIER. IN PURSUANCE of tho provisions of an Act cf the General Assembly of New Zeeland, intituled “The Eeguletion of Elections Act, 1858,” I, John Curling, Esq, Keturuing Officer for the Electoral District ox Napier, do hereby give notice that by virtue of a Writ, bearing date the twentyfirst day cf April, ibcu, issued under the hand of Hie Honor the Superintendent of the Province cf Hawke’s Ley, an I’ieciioa wiu be held ifor the return of a qualified person to serve as a member of tho Provincial Council for (he said Electoral District, in lieu of JAMES JIELISS Si PANT, resigned; and that the nomination of Candidates will take place at the .Resident Magistrate’s Court, Napier, at noon, cn THURSDAY, the tenth day of May, 1566; and that the Poll (if necessary) will be taken on EEIDAY, the eleventh day of May, 1566; and that the state of the Poll will bo declared at the dose thereof. Dated this twenty-first day of April, 1866, JOHN CURLING, Returning Officer. The following is the polling pisee for the Electoral District of Napier:— lira Resident Magistrate’s Court, Napier. JOHN CURLING, Returning Officer,- ; Dated this twenty-first day of April, 1866. ' Superintendent’s Office, Napier, 23rd April, IS6S. TENDERS will be received at this Office until noon on MONDAY, the 14ilj May, for the Erection of a Court House and Police Station at Clyde, Te Wairoa. - Plans and specifications to be seen at this office j and at Mr Prentice’s Store, Clyde, G.T. FANNIN, S»periate»(knt’s Clerk,