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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5117, 13 January 1888, Page 2

Tin-; New Zealand Times says :—" It may be as well, for tho convenience of the large number of people interested, to state that some very important provisions of the Land Act of last session, giving relief to settlers, are in operation, and may be taken advantage of. These refer to land already occupied on various tenures. For instance, section 10 of the Act enables the holders of deferred-payment or perpetual-least- lands to acquire a freehold upon completion of present improvements. Under section 20, selectors of rural lands on deferred payments are euabled to obtain extension of their licenses to make them for a period of fourteen years from the date of the original license : and the following section exempts holders, of bush lands from residence on certain conditions. The 21th sot ion allows holders of pastoral deferred-pay-ment licenses to exchange for leases of small grazing runs, the eifect being to reduce the rent in many eases to about one-third. All these provisions aro of the utmost importance to people who have taken up land under the laws and regulations obtained up to the end of last session, and we published a brief resume of the more noticeable features of the new Act. which came into force, with the exception of those parts of it which deal with throwing land open for settlement, on tho 23rd of last month. In the case of lands excepted, certain formalities;n the way of notifications have to be observed, and tlie operation of the Act, as far only as they are concerned, is suspended till the Ist of March."