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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Proclaiming certain lands under "The New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863."

G. GREY, Governor.
At the Government House, at Wellington, the
second day of September, 1865.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Settlements
Act, 1863," it was enacted amongst other
things, that whenever the Governor in Council
shall be satisfied that any Native Tribe or section
of a Tribe or any considerable number thereof, have,
since the first day of January, 1863, been engaged in
rebellion against Her Majesty's authority, it shall
be lawful for the Governor in Council to declare
that the district within which any land being the pro-
perty or in the possession of such Tribe or section or
considerable number thereof shall be situate, shall
be a district within the provisions of the said Act,
and the boundaries of such district in like manner
to define and vary as he shall think fit.

And whereas the Governor in Council is satisfied
that certain Native Tribes, or sections of Tribes,
having landed properties and possessions in the lands
described in the Schedules hereunder written, have
been engaged in rebellion against Her Majesty's
authority:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise of the power vested in him by the said
recited Act, doth hereby, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the Colony, declare that
from the date hereof, the lands described in the
first Schedule to this Proclamation, being districts
within which there are situate lands the property or
in the possession of such Tribes, or sections of Tribes,
as aforesaid, shall be two districts within the pro-
visions of the said "New Zealand Settlements Act,
1863," and shall be designated by the names of
Ngatiawa and Ngatiruanui.

And whereas it is further enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council from time to
time to set apart within any such districts eligible
sites for settlements for colonization, and the
boundaries of such settlements to define and vary,
and further, that for the purpose of such settlements
the Governor in Council may from time to time
reserve or take any land within such district, and
that such land shall be deemed to be Crown Land,
freed and discharged from all title interest or claim
of any person whomsoever, as soon as the Governor
in Council shall have declared that such land is
required for the purposes of the said Act, and is
subject to the provisions thereof.

And whereas by a Proclamation dated the 30th
day of January, 1865, in exercise of the powers vested
in the Governor by the said Act, the Governor hath
declared that certain lands shall be districts within
the provisions of the said "New Zealand Settlements
Act, 1863," and shall be designated by the name
of Middle Taranaki:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
further exercise of the power vested in him by the
said recited Act, doth hereby, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, set
apart, as eligible sites for settlement for colonization,
the lands described in the second Schedule to this
Proclamation, being lands within the said Proclaimed
District of Middle Taranaki, and the Districts
hereby constituted of Ngatiawa and Ngatiruanui,
and doth declare that the lands described in the said
Schedule are required for the purposes of the said
Act and are subject to the provisions thereof, and doth
reserve and take such lands for such purposes, and
doth hereby further declare with the advice and

consent aforesaid, that no land of any loyal inhabi-
tant within the said districts, whether held by Native
custom or under Crown Grant, will be taken except
so much as may be absolutely neccssary for the
security of the country, compensation being given
for all land so taken, and further that all rebel
inhabitants of the said districts who come in within
a reasonable time and make submission to the Queen,
will receive a sufficient quantity of land within the
said district under grant from the Crown.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE 1.

Ngatiawa.
Bounded on the north-west and north by the sea,
from the mouth of the River Waitara to the tunnel at
Parininihi, and thence by a straight line in a direction
due east (true bearing) for a distance of twenty miles;
on the south-east by a straight line drawn from the
eastern extremity of the said northern boundary in a
direction south 39 degrees west (true bearing) till it
intersects the straight line between the summit of
Mount Egmont and Parikino on the Wanganui River;
on the south by the said lastnamed straight
line from its intersection with the said south-eastern
boundary to its intersection with the Kairoa and
Waimate Road; on the west by the eastern boundary
of the District of Middle Taranaki, proclaimed under
"The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," from the
point last named to the commencing point at the
mouth of the River Waitara.

Ngatiruanui.
On the north-east by a straight line bearing on
the summit of Mount Egmont, commencing at the
Kairoa and Waimate road, and drawn thence to
Parikino on the River Wanganui; on the east by the
said river to the sea; on the south-west by the sea
from the mouth of the said River Wanganui to the
Waimate Stream; and on the west by the said
Kairoa and Waimate Road from the said Waimate
Stream, which last or western boundary is also part
of the eastern boundary of the said District of Middle
Taranaki; excepting all lands held by or under the
Crown prior to the date of this Proclamation.

SCHEDULE 2.

Ngatiawa Coast.
Bounded on the west and north-west by a line
drawn straight from the summit of Mount Egmont
to the source of the River Waiongona, thence along
the said River Waiongona to Tarurutangi, thence
straight to the junction of the Rivers Maunganui and
Waitara, thence along the said River Waitara to the
sea, thence along the sea coast to the tunnel at
Parininihi; on the north by a straight line in a
direction due east (true bearing) from the said tunnel
at Parininihi for a distance of twenty miles; on the
south-east by a straight line drawn from the eastern
extremity of the said northern boundary in a
direction south 39 degrees west, till it intersects
the straight line between the summit of Mount
Egmont and Parikino on the Wanganui River; and
on the south-west by the said straight line last
named, from its intersection with the said south-
eastern boundary to the summit of Mount Egmont.

Ngatiruanui Coast.
Bounded on the north by the River Hangatahua,
from its mouth to the southern angle of the Oakura
district, and thence by a straight line passing between
the Pouakai and Patua Ranges to the point where a
Native path passing in the same direction intersects the
south-western boundary of the Tapuae (or Omata)
Block; on the north-east by the said south-west
boundary and by the south-east boundary of the said