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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL
COME, GREETING :-

WHEREAS by Public Notice inserted
in the New Zealand Gazette upon the
thirteenth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one, and subsequent
dates, certain rewards were offered to persons
who should produce from the Phormium
Tenax or other fibrous plant indigenous to
New Zealand, certain quantities of Merchan-
dize, subject to the conditions therein set
forth :

And whereas it is desirable to appoint a
Commission to receive and investigate Claims
to the Rewards above mentioned, and to
exercise the powers and perform the duties
relating to such Commission as set forth in
the said notice :

Now know ye, that I, Sir George Grey,
the Governor of the said Colony, do hereby
appoint

The Honorable READER GILSON WOOD,
CHARLES JOHN TAYLOR, Esq., M.G.A.,
And

CHARLES KNIGHT, Esq.,,

to be Commissioners for the purposes afore-
said to act within the Province of Auckland,
and to have, hold and exercise all the powers
competent to them during my pleasure.

Given under my hand, at the
Government House, at Auek-
land, this second day of March,
in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight and sixty-three.
G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT,

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Bringing the Crown Lands Act, 1862, into
operation.

G. GREY,
Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland, the
28th day of February, 1863.

Present:-

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Crown Lands Act, 1862," it is enacted
that the said Act shall come into operation in
each Province of New Zealand on and from
a day to be fixed by the Governor in Council,
to be notified in the Government Gazette of
the Colony, and also of the Province to which
such notification shall apply :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Go-
vernor, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of New Zealand, doth

hereby order that the "Crown Lands Act,
1862," shall come into operation within each
of the aftermentioned Provinces of New Zea-
land, namely, the Provinces of Auckland,
Wellington, Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, Nelson,
Marlborough, Canterbury, Otago, and South-
land, on and from the sixth day of April
next.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council,

Governor's assent withheld from Bill,
Otago.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 2nd March, 1863.

THE following Bill, passed by the Pro-
vincial Council of Otago, intituled
"The Unimproved Land Ordinance,
1862,"

which Bill was reserved for the signification
of the Governor's pleasure thereon, having
been laid before the Governor, His Excel-
lency has been pleased to withhold his assent
to the same.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Members of Provincial Council elected at
Hawke's Bay.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 4th March, 1863.

IT is hereby notified that Writs issued for
the election of Members of the Provincial
Council of the Province of Hawke's Bay
have been returned with certificates to the
effect that-

For the District of the Town of Napier,
Messrs. John Alexander Smith, Alexander
Kennedy, Thomas Hitchings, James
Wood, and William Colenso,

For the District of Porangahau,
John Davies Ormond, Esq.,

For the District of Waipukurau,
Messrs. Sydney Johnston and John Wil-
kinson,

For the District of Te Aute,
Messrs. Henry Stokes Tiffen, and Ed-
mund Tuke,

For the District of Mohaka,
Philip Dolbel, Esq.,

For the District of Clive,
Joseph Rhodes, Esq.,

For the Napier Country District,
Messrs. John Chilton, Lambton, Carter,
and Donald McLean,

For the District of Waimarama,
Edward Spencer Curling, Esq.,

have been duly elected.

READER WOOD,
In the absence of Mr. Domett,