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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 5, Issue 235, 30 November 1861, Page 1

"BTAWKE'S BAY NAVAL AND MILITARY SETTLERS' ACT, 1861." NOTICE. T^HEREAS the above-named Act was " v passed in the last session of the General Assembly, and whereas the said Act is now In force in the Province of Hawke's Bayi Notice is hereby given that applications will be received at this office, under the provisions of the said Act, and the Auckland "Waste Lands Act, 1858, (extracts from which are appended hereto), until the expiration of six months from the date of the Act coming into operation, as set forth in Section 111. — — ■ -.i' Extract. Section II. — The said hereinbefore recited provisions of the " Waste Lands Act, 1858," relating to naval and military settlers, shall relate to and include, and shall be deemed to have related to, and to have included the said Province of Hawke's Bay; Section 111. — No person shall be disqualified from obtaining a land order under the said Act by reason of his not having applied for the same before the 9th day of June, 1858 : Provided^that such person shall have made such application at any time before the passing of this Act, or shall make such application at any time within six months after the same shall have come into operation. Section IV. — All grants of waste lands of the Crown heretofore made by or on behalf of Her Majesty to naval and military Bettlers within the Province of Hawke's Bay, under regulations in force or deemed to be in force within the said Province, shall be valid and effectual in the law — any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Extract from the Auckland " Waste Lands Act, 1858." Every naval and military officer, whether on full or half pay, and every non-commissioned officer and private, marine or seaman, whether belonging "to Her Majesty's service or to the service of the East India Company, who may retire 'or obtain his discharge from the service to which he may belong, or who, having retired or obtained his discharge for the purpose aforesaid, has not selected land under any former law or regulation enabling naval and military settlers to select land free of coat, shall be entitled (in lieu of an allowance in respect of money expended in passages as hereinbefore provided in respect of settlers emigrating from the United Kingdom and elsewhere) to receive from the Commissioner a land order enabling him to acquire land free of cost after the following rate : — Commissioned officers 400 acres. Non-commissioned and warrant officers 80 acres. Private soldier, marine and seaman ... 60 acres. Provided always that any such non-commissioned officer and private, and any marine and seaman, before he shall be entitled to receive any such land order, shall prove to the satisfaction of the" Commissioner by certificate or otherwise that he retired or obtained his discharge for the purpose of settling in the Province of Auckland ; and any noncommissione'd'officer or private, marine or seaman shall, at the same time produce to the Commissioner a certificate from the officer under whom he may have served of having during hia period of service been of good character. CHARLES LAMBERT, Acting Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Land Office, Napier, Oct. 11, 1861. ON SALE BY THE UNDERSIGNED, SUGAR — Pampanga, No. 1 Company's Pieces Rice — Carolina Tobacco— Honeydew Flour — Steam Mill Vinegar — Champion'e Paints of various colors Paint Oil Copal Varnish Grass Seeds, Red and White Clover Soda Crystals Stoves— Cooking and Parlour Tobacco Pipes Spades and Potato Forks .;0l Cutlery and Tinware Woolpacks Corn Sacks and Gunny Bags Scotch and American Ploughs Nails and Screws Timber, Palings, Shingles &c, &0., &c. Aiflo, Champagne, Claret, Port, Sherry, Old Tom, ■;i Brandy, Rum, Ale — (In quantities from two gallons and upwards.) VAUTIER JANISCH. Napier, Not. 5, 1861. BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. TO SHAREHOLDERS. rpHE second call, of 20s. per share is payable here X on or before the 2nd December next, to JAMES WATT, Prov. Trustee; — or to EDWARD LYNDON.