Sub-Enclosure.
Public notice is hereby given that agreements for the purchase or leasing of Native reserves, being the property of tribes or communities, are illegal and void under the New Zealand Constitution Act, 15 and 16 Victoriæ, c. 72. Persons entering into agreements, or pretended agreements, for such purchases or leases, are hereby warned that they cannot be protected in possession, and render themselves liable to penalties under the Native Lands Purchase Ordinance, Session VIII., No. 19.
Charles Brown,
Superintendent.