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Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 24, 17 June 1867, Page 2

“ NATIVE LANDS ACT, 1866 ” NOTICE. Treasury, Wellington, 20th February, 1867. ATTENTION is called to Section XVI. of “ The Native Lands Act, 1866,” which enacts that—“ The duties by the said Act (the Native Lands Act, 1865) required to be paid on each first sale or other disposal of the hereditaments or Native land therein mentioned, shall in any cases where the transfers, conveyances, leases, or other instruments affecting the same have deen signed or executed before the passing of this Act, be paid before the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and in other cases shall be paid within six calendar months from the day of the date of the signing or execution, or the day of the date of the deed of transfer, conveyance, lease, or other instrument, whichever day shall be prior in time; and if the person or persons from whom, under the provisions contained in the said “Native Lands Act, 1865,” any such duties shall hereafter be due to Her Majesty shall neglect to pay the same within such period as aforesaid, every such person shall be liable to pay as a penalty a sum equal to three times the duty by the said Act made payable, in addition to the duties under the said Act, which penalty may be recovered summarily before any two Justices of the Peace, or may be sued for as a debt due to Her Majesty, by and in the name of the Colonial Treasurer, in any Court of competent jurisdiction. And if any person shall give information to the Colonial Treasurer whereby any such penalty shall be recovered, he shall be rewarded by the Colonial Treasurer out of the penalty recovered, to such extent as the Colonial Treasurer shall think fit, but not exceeding one-half what shall be so recovered, and such penalty so recovered, or so much thereof as shall not have been applied in rewarding any informer, shall be paid over to the credit of ‘The Native Land Court Account.’ ” The duties so payable witliin the Provinces of Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, and Wellington, should be paid into the Treasuries of those Provinces respectively. WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, PUBLIC NOTICE. Crown. Land’s Office, Wellington, 29th May, 1867. THE undermentioned SECTIONS have been declared to be PASTORAL LAND, and will be open for selection on and after MONDAY, the Bth day of July next, viz:— Sections from No 120 to No, 144 inclusive, and Nos 146, 148, 149, and 150, in the Awhea Block, East Coast, containing 23,886 acres, more or less, Sections Nos 773 and 782 in the Whareama Block, East Coast, containing 2,259 acres, more or less. Plans of the Blocks, shewing the several allotments, are open for inspection at this office. WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Commissioner of Crown Lands. TO CONTRACTORS. Provincial Secretary’s Office, W r ellington, May 31, 1867. TENDERS are invited for the CONSTRUCTION of a BRIDGE over the MUNGAROA STREAM. Plans and Specification can be seen at the Provincial Engineer’s Office, Wellington, on and after Thursday, 6th June. Tenders will be received up to NOON on THURSDAY, 20th June, at the Office of the Provincial Secretary. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. W. HICKSON, Provincial Secretary, LOST, STOLEN, OR STRAYED. 17 ROM THE WHAREAMA, A BAY MARE, black points, 4 years old, about Hi hands high, slight made, branded NR off shoulder. £l reward will be given on information being given to lead to her recovery. If stolen, £5 on the conviction of the thief. ROBERT ADAMS, Shepherd at Mr Meredith*. Riversdale, Whareama, May 27, 1867. A . J . W II Y T E , COACH AND HORSES, LATE OF WHITE WOOD’S HOTEL, MANNER-STREET WELLINGTON. "VIEW BOOKS PER RUAHINE, VIA Vi PANAMA. JUST RECEIVED by tub UNDERSIGNED. Sir Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology, vol 1., 21s Memoirs ot Anthropological Society, vols 1 and 2, 26s fid per vol. Modern Culture, Dr Youmans, 10s Martineau’s Essays, Philosophical and Theological, 13s 6d Hurst’s History of Rationalism, 18s Elaine ,by Tennyson, illustrated by GJDore 31s 6d Montaigne’s complete W'orks, 21s The Children’s Hour Annual, 1867, 6* 6d Ferguson’s Electricity, 3s 6d Cerise, by Melville, 7s fid Pryde’s Navigation, 8s fid Felix Holt the Radical, 2 vols, 15s Toilers of tile Sea, by Victor Hugo, 7s 6d WILLIAM LYON.