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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 374, 7 May 1866, Page 7

Government Advertisements.. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. THE TWO BLOCKS of LAND on the AHURIRI PLAINS, Leased from the Natives by the Provincial G-ovemment, and for which a certificate of title has been issued to the Native i owners, will, on a day to be hereafter notified, be 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 landl in the Ahuriri Plains, at present acquired for settlements upon lease, shall be disposed of in the following manner: Each block shall as soon 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 be not less than twenty-five per cent higher than the rate paid for the same to , the native proprietors. The rent for the first year of the lease shall be 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 same 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 shall then be 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 the'pfbperty of the Govergment, a pre-emptive right of purchase of the laud contained in his lease shall be given j to each leaseholder, such pre-emptive right to be subject to the payment of a valuation to be fixed by arbitration (in the usual mannerj) 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. All moneys accruing under these regulations shall he paid to the Provincial Treasurer. Plans shewing the size of the Allotments will he duly published, a further Notice will be given .of the day on which the lands will be offered to public competition. DONALD MLEAN, Superintendent. ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF NAPIER. IN .PURSUANCE of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “ The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858,” I, John Curling, Esq., Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Napier, do hereby give notice that by virtue of a Writ, bearing date the twentyfirst day of April, 1866, issued under the hand of His Honor the Superintendent of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, an Election will be held for the return of a qualified person to serve as a member of the Provincial Council for the said Electoral District, in lieu of JAMES MELISS STUART, resigned ; and that the nomination of Candidates will take place at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Napier, at noon, on THURSDAY, the tenth day of May, 1866 ; and that the Pol] (if necessary) will he taken on FRIDAY, the eleventh day of May, 1866; and that the state of the Poll will be , declared at the close thereof. Dated this twenty-first day of April, 1866. JOHN CURLING, Returning Officer. The following is the polling place for the Electoral District of Napier:— The Resident Magistrate’s Court, Napier. JOHN CURLING, Returning Officer. Dated this twenty-first day of April, 1866. Superintendent’s Office, Napier, 23rd April, 1866. f I TENDERS will be received at this Off X until noon on MONDAY, the 14th Mi or the Erection of a Court House and Police Station at Clyde, Te Wairoa. Plans and specifications to be seen at this (Office i and at Mr Prentice’s Store, Clyde. G. T. EANNIN, . ..Superintendent’s Clerk, i