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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor, do hereby
proclaim and notify that the Native Title has
been extinguished over the Block of Land, the
boundaries whereof are mentioned or described
in the Schedule hereunto annexed.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Auck-
land, in the Colony afore-
said, this twenty-third day of
October, on the year of our
Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

person or persons therein named, and of his or
their residence at the date of such Procla-
mation."

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the Co-
lony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said
Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that
the person hereinafter mentioned shall come
within the operation of the said Act from the
date hereinafter specified, viz.:-

CARL SYLVIUS VÖLKNER,
from the 17th day of October, 1857; native
of Germany, Catechist; residence, Turanga,
Province of Auckland.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand,
at Government House, at
Auckland, in the Colony
aforesaid, this twenty-seventh
day of October, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,

By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.

PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.
Manukau District.

KAKARAMEA BLOCK.
(Area 1035 Acres.)

Bounded on the North by Beard's Fence,
3470 links, on the East by Native land-618,
1805, 3255, and 1040 links, and by a line, one
chain, to the East of the present road from
Auckland to Mangatawhiri, to where Mr.
Ormsby's boundary line crosses the road at
Rawhitiroa; on the West by the Ramarama
Block, 17,400 and 5070 links to Pai-o-te-arai,
from thence along the Auckland and Manga-
tawhiri Road to Beard's Fence at the Cami-
kumi.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, October 27th, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

DAVID INNES, Esq.,
to be his Justice of the Peace for the Province
of Canterbury.

E. W. STAFFORD.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, &c., &c.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Naturalization Act, 1856," it is enacted,
"that all and singular the persons who shall
be declared to come within the operation of
this Act by any Proclamation to be issued in
that behalf by His Excellency the Governor,
or Officer administering the Government, shall,
as from the time to be in the respective cases
in that behalf specified by such Proclamation,
be deemed and taken, until the termination of
the next Session of the General Assembly,
to be, and to have been as from such specified
time, natural born subjects of Her Majesty,
within the Islands of New Zealand, as fully to
all intents and purposes as if their names had
respectively been inserted in the Schedule
hereunto annexed. Provided always that
every such Proclamation shall contain the
description, occupation, or calling, of the

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, October 27th, 1857.

THE following Report on some of the
principal lines of Road in the interior
of the Northern Island is published for general
information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Auckland, June 4th, 1857.

Sir,---

In compliance with your request, I have
drawn up the enclosed Report on some of the
principal lines of road in the interior of this
Island.

From the fact of my not being in possession
of any sketch of the principal and most im-
portant road-viz., that from Auckland to Ota-
whao-I have not been able to enter into any
details respecting it.

I have, as far as it was in my power, given a
more general report of the road from Otawhao
to Mokau, and on to the southward; you will,
however, be good enough to take into consider-
ation the conduct of the natives of Mokau, who,
though they did not positively place ob-
stacles in my way, or offer any opposition to
the ject I had in view-the exploration of an avail-