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Kumara Times, Issue 1380, 4 March 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. STANDING REGULATIONS ''RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER “ THE MINES ACT, 1877.” Hsboulbs Ropinson, Governor. WHEREAS by the fifty-first section of “The Mines. Act, 1877” (herein referred to as “ the said Act”), it is enacted tbaUt shall be lawful for the Governor, ■abject to the. provisions of the said Act from time to tube to make, alter amendand rvoke rales and. regulations for all or any of the purposes thereinafter enumerated: and ‘whereas try-the fifty-third section of IhesaidAot It IS enacted that the rules and regulations contained in the Appendices to the said Ae* shall be deemed to be the first rulejrand'; tabulations made under the fiftyfirst l anfd fifty-second .sections of the said Aott And. .'whereas it is expedient that the regulations respecting agrioultual leases under Appendix B to the said Act, and numbered three, five, ten, twelve, thirteen, fifteen and 1 eighteen, should be amended: Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby order that the regulations , under Appendix B particularly referfod to. above shall be and are hereby revoked, and the > following substituted in lien thereof >- WHO MAT APPLY, %'lfivery application must be made by the applioantin person ; and the Warden shall not entertain any; application unless he satisfied that the person is of the full age of twbnty-pne years, and legally capable of being ; bound by the contract Into which it ithereby proposed to enter, and is not in respect of the land applied for, or in respect of any r .part thereof, the agent or servant of or a tr&Steb for'any other person, OBKOTION3, (krObjeotiotos that the the applicant is not>of the . full age of twenty-one years, of that np is In respect of the land applied for the'agent or servant of or the trnstee for any‘other person, or that the whole or any portion ot the land applied for is claimed or owned by any other person than the applicant, or is in the whole or in part auriferous, or is or is Ukely to be required for any public purpose, must be made in writing to the Warden, and lodged at the office at which the application shall have been lodged twenty-four hours at least before the time appomted for hearing; and the person objecting must at . the time appointed for hearing urge the objection personally, or by onnsel or agent. 10. At any time before finally dealing with any application the Warden may require a report or survey to be mvie by the District Surveyor and in snch case the cost of such survey or report shall be paid in advance to the Receiver of Gold Revenue either by the applicant or the objector, or partly by both, as. may be decided by the Warden.

GOVERNOR'S POWER TO REFUSE LEASE RE SERVED. 13. On inning any certificate the Warden shall forthwith forward to the Governor a duplicate of snob certificate, and notwithstanding the issne of the same, It shall be lawful ior the Governor within sixty day from the date thereof to refuse to grant it the apniiaant p lease of the land referred to In such certificate! and Immediately upon such refusal being communicated to the applicant, either person ally or by letter addressed to him at his usual or last known place of business or abode, the certificate afid matter and thing therein contained shall become and be absolutely void, and the applicant shall forthwith quit and deliver «p possession of the said land, and failing his so doing he may be proceeded against as atrespasser on Crown lands. CONDITION OF OCCUPATION. • 12. Every certificate and lease shall b° subject to the conditions following, that is losay—1. That no sale or assignment shall be made without license. Sr That not- less than one-eighth of the whole area shall be cultivated, or, if timbered land, cleared, within twelve ■ , months after the commencement of the, or one-fourth of the whole area substantially fenced within the same • • time. SL the lessee shall, within two yean after the commencement of the ; . term, erect, a dwelling-house of a value of not less than fifty pounds . sterling, and that within the same Griod be shall begin to reside on the id, and continue so to do until the land becomes freehold.

Building and residence may be dispense with in the ease of an applicant who resides dining the currency of the lease within three miles of the land applied for, Buildings and residence may also be dis* (tensed with in all cases where the major part of the land is declared by the District ghrreyor to.be of.a greater altitude above Sea level than two thousand f eet< SCDEDULE B> District of , 18 Whkbkab the applioation of for an Sgricnltoral lease of Grown lands, situated ■' , was heard before me op 18 | and whereas I have decided that a lease of acres roads perches should be granted to the said applicant: This is to certify that the said Is hereby authorised to take possession of the r ssid land,: and the. same to hold, use. and enjoy. Subjects to the terms and conditions specified in the Agricultural leases Regulations In force at the date of the issue hereof, Warden, N.B.—This certificate Is to be exchanged for a lease when the said is notified that snch lease is ready for his a< ceptance, and will , become void if the said is notified that a lease will not be granted to feta. KOT TBANSJfKRABLB. M witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of Jnno one thousand eight hundred wdaeTepty-nine.j^