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Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 25, 24 June 1867, Page 2

“ NATIVE LANDS ACT, 1866.” N o’t ICE. Treasury, Wellington, - H >. 20th February, 1867. ATTENTION is called to Section XVI. of “ The Native Lauds 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 mouths 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 Lauds Act, 186 J,” 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 Justifies 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 within 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, 1857. fT'HE undermentioned SECTIONS hare X been declared to be P A.STORAL LAND, and r ill he open for selection on and after MONDAY, the Sth 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. Flans of the Blocks, shewing the several allotments, are open for inspection at this office. WILLIAM FITZHEREERT, Commissioner of Crown Lands. TO SAMUEL REYANS, ESQ., J. P. Carterton, May 28, 1867, SIR, —Y.'e the undersigned, owners of land in the Carterton District, request that you will convene a meeting of the owners of land in “all that piece of land, situate and being within the limits of the township of Carterton, as defined on the selection map in the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands,” for the purpose of taking the legal steps to constitute tiie above land a Road District under the provisions of the District Highway’s Act. We have the honor to be, Sir Your obedient servants, Robert Kemble William Walker R. Fairbrotbcr Alfred Turner Robert Dixon Henry White James Ridgeway John Sullivan Edward Clay Armand Bennett

I hereby convene convene a MEETING of the voters’ of the District as described in th e extract from the Proclamation, in compliance with the above requisition, to be held at the School-house, Carterton, on SATURDAY, 23th June, at T\\ 0 o’clock in the alternoon. SAMUEL REVANS, J.P. MOR 0 A STORES, AS the Proprietor of the above Stores is about to dispose of the business and premises, all persons indebted to him are respectfully requested to pay their respective accounts before the expiration of the, present month. Moroa Stores, near Greyfown, June 12, 1867. AJEW BOOKS PER RUAHINE, VIA i.l PANAMA. JUST RECEIVED by the UNDERSIGNED. Sir Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, vol I.‘, 2!a Memoirs of Anthropological Society, vois 1 I and 2, 20". Gd per vol. i Modern Culture, Dr Tollmans, 10s | Martiucau’s Essays, Philosophical and Theological, i 8s Gd Hurst’s History of Rationalism, 18s Elaine ,by Tennyson, illustrated by Q.fDore Sis Gd Montaigne's complete works, 21s The Children’s Hour Annual, 1867, 6s 6d Ferguson’s Electricity, Ss 6d Cerise, by Melville, 7s 6cl Pryde’s Navigation, 8s 6d Felix Holt the Radical, 2 vols, 15s Toilers of the Sea, by Victor Hugo, 7s 6cl WILLIAM LYON.