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New Zealander, Volume XIX, Issue 1973, 15 September 1863, Page 5

Northern Island of New Zealand, will be granted to settlers willing to perform the after mentioned Military services Alfred Douett. NEW ZEALAND. (CONDITIONS upon which land in the J Northern Island of New Zealand, will be granted to settlers willing to perform the after mentioned Military services : 1. No man above.the age of 40 years will be accepted, and every applicant will be subject to an examination by an officer appointed by the Governor, and must produce such certificates of good character, health, and general fitness for the service, as such officer shall require. 2. Each accepted applicant, if not already in the Northern Island, will be provided with a free passage to a port to be designated by an agent of the Governor. Before embarkation, lie "Will bo required to sign a. declaratiou and agreement to the effect that he understands and will be bound by and fulfil these conditions. 3. On arrival the men will be enrolled in the Militia for service in the Northern Island of the Colony, and formed into companies ; constituted as nearly as may be as follows : 1 Captain, 1 Subaltern, 5 Sergeants, 5 Corporals, 100 Privates. 4. Each man according to his rank will be entitled to pay, rations, and allowances, until he is authorised by the Governmont to take possession of his land, when he will be relieved from " Actual service." 5. Settlements will be surveyed and marked out at the expense of the Government, in such localities, in the Northern Island as the Government may select (or that purpose. 6. Each settlement will comprise not less than 100 town allotments, and 100 farm sections. 7. A stockade on the most eligible site in each settlement will be erected at the expense of the Government. 8. A town will be laid out around, or as near as conveniently may be to the stockade in one acre allotments. 9. Farms will be laid out around, or as near as conveniently may be to the town. The size of the farm section allotted to each will be according to his rank in the Militia.

For a Field Officer " Captain " Surgeon " Subaltern ... " Sergeant ... " Corporal " Private ... 400 acres. ... 300 " ... 250 « ... 200 " ... 80 " ... 60 " ... 50 " 10. Every settler under these conditions, who upon being relieved from actual service, receives a certificate of good conduct, will be entitled to one town allotment and one farm section. 11. Priority of choice for each rank will be determined by lot. 12. After taking possession he will be entitled to receive rations, free of cost for twelve months, upon the same scale as supplied to Her Majesty's troops ; he will be allowed to retain possession, as a militiaman, of his arms and accoutrements, and he will be supplied with ammunition for use according to militia regulations. 13. No settler after taking possession will be permitted during the first three years after his enrolment in the Militia to absent himself from his settlement for more than one calendar month in any one year without the leave of the Governor first obtained. 14. During such three years he will be liable to be trained and exercised as other militiamen ; and whenever a portion only of the Militia shall be called out for actual service, each settler will be deemed to be a Volunteer Militiaman, and will be required to serve as such anywhere that may be required in the Northern Island of the Colony. During such service he will be entitled to the same pay, rations and allowances as other Militiamen. 15. On the expiration of three years from his enrolment, each settler, having fulfilled the conditions, but not otherwise, will be entitled to a Crown Grant of the town allotment and farm section alloted to him ; and will thenceforth be subject only to the same Militia services as other colonists. 16. Any settler will be permitted to dispose of his land to any person approved of by the Government; and such person undertaking to be subject to the same liabilities will be entitled to the same privileges as the settler whose place he takes. 17. In case of the death of any settler, before he shall have become enticled to his Crown Grant, the land to which he is entitled, will be grauted to his wife or children, or to.such other person as he shall by writing appoint; or it may be taken for the location of another settler under these conditions, or fbr any other purpose, but the value thereof in such latter case will be determined by valuation, and the amount paid by the Government to the settler's widow or children, or other person appointed as aforesaid.

Form of Declaration and Agreemknnt. I do hereby declare that I fully understand the " Conditions" hereunto annexed, and I do engage and agree to be bound thereby, and punctually on my part to fulfil all the terms thereof. N OTE# —The pay of the Militia and Volunteers serving in New Zealand is as follows: Captains .. Lieutenants Ensigns Sergeants .. Corporals . Privates ...lis. 7(1. per diem ... 6s. 6d. .. os. 3d. ... 3s. 6d. ... 3s. .. 2s. 6d. —With Rations and other Allowances Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, sth Sept., 18G3. ' j HE following Report from dipt Roels of t the barque City of Melbourne, as to the Bar at tlie entrance to the Waikato River, is published for general information. Alfred Domett. • Waikato River, 28th August, 1803. In reference to questions by Mr. Armitage, I beg to state that to my knowledge the bar of the Waikato is a very good and safe entrance for any vessel not drawing more than 10 to 12 feet having entered at half-tide ebb with the barque City of Melbourne. The channel is not a long one, is straight, and has plenty of water. P. G, Roels, Master City of Melbourne.