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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

following Acts passed by the Superintendent and
Provincial Council of the Province of Auckland, viz.:
"City Board Loan Act, No. 2, 1865."
"Wairoa Road Act, 1865."

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Grey, Knight, Commander of the
Most Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor, and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its dependencies, at the
Government House at Wellington, and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony
of New Zealand, this first day of Decem-
ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Assent of Natives to certain Reserves under "Native
Reserves Act, 1856."

At the Government House, at Wellington, on
the nineteenth day of November, 1865.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Native Reserves
Amendment Act, 1862," it is amongst other things
provided that where, under the provisions of "The
Native Reserves Act, 1856," the assent of the
aboriginal inhabitants is required to bringing land
under the operation of the said "Native Reserves
Act, 1856," the Governor may by Order in Council,
declare such assent to have been ascertained, and
theroupon the title of the aboriginal inhabitants in
the land to which the same shall relate shall be
deemed to be extinguished, and the land shall, from
the date of such Order in Council, vest in Her
Majesty for the purposes and subject to the pro-
visions of the said "Native Reserves Act, 1856," as
altered by the recited Act, and that as effectually as
if the same had been ceded and conveyed by such
aboriginal inhabitants to Her Majesty: Now, there-
fore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth
hereby declare that the assent of the aboriginal
inhabitants to the bringing the pieces of land de-
scribed in Schedules A and B hereunder written
under the operation of "The Native Reserves Act,
1856," has been ascertained.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE A.

All that parcel of land in the Province of Taranaki,
Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement
one hundred acres, more or less, being part of Native
Reserve marked B on the plan of the Waiwakaiho
District, bounded towards the north by waste land
and Native Reserve marked A, two thousand and
twenty links; towards the east by waste land, five
thousand and seventy links; towards the south by
allotment numbered two hundred and four, two
thousand and twenty links; and towards the west by
the Smart Road, five thousand one hundred links.

SCHEDULE B.

All that parcel of land in the Province of Taranaki,
Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasure-
ment six acres 1 rood, more or less, being part of the
Native Reserve numbered fourteen on the plan of
the Fitzroy District, bounded towards the north by
the Poti Stream; towards the east by Watson Street,
two hundred and five links; towards the south by
Lemon Street, one thousand three hundred and
eighty-seven links; and towards the west by Hobson
Street, five hundred and ten links. And also all that
other parcel of land, containing by admeasurement
twelve acres, more or less, being part of the same
reserve numbered fourteen, bounded towards the
north by Lemon Street, one thousand three hundred
and eighty-seven links, towards the east by Watson
Street, six hundred and thirty links; towards the
south by the Uira Stream; and towards the west by
Hobson Street, eight hundred and five links.

G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL

Ordering a re-hearing by the Native Land Court of
the claim for Purapura.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
nineteenth day of November, 1865.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS at a sitting of the Native Land
Court of New Zealand held at Port Waikato,
in the Province of Auckland, on the thirty-first day
of May, 1865, the claim of Waata Kukutai and
others to a piece of land called Purapura, situate on
the banks of the Waikato River in the said Province,
was heard and certain orders were thereupon made
by the Court aforesaid. And whereas it is enacted
by "The Native Lands Act, 1865," that the
Governor in Council may order a re-hearing of any
matter judicially heard before the Court aforesaid
before one or more Judges of the Court and two or
more Assessors as may be specified in the Order in
Council ordering such re-hearing, and within such a
period of time as may be limited in such order:
Provided that no such order for a re-hearing shall be
made after six months shall have elapsed from the
date of the original decision. And whereas it is
expedient that the said claim shall be re-heard before
the said Court: Now therefore His Excellency the
Governor, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony, in pursuance and
execution of the above recited power and authority,
doth hereby order that the aforesaid claim of Waata
Kukutai and others to the aforesaid piece of land
shall be re-heard before the undermentioned Judges
of the Native Land Court or any two of them, that
is to say—

FRANCIS DART FENTON, Esq.,
JOHN ROGAN, Esq.,
HENRY MONRO, Esq.,
FREDERICK EDWARD MANING, Esq.,

and before the undermentioned Assessors or any two
of them, that is to say—

TE KEENE,
TE HEMARA,
WIREMU TE WHEORO,
HORI TE WHETUKA.

And doth order that such re-hearing shall take
place before the thirty-first day of January next.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL

Constituting a Warden's Court within the Nelson Gold
Field, and appointing Wardens thereto.

At the Government House, at Wellington, on the
twenty-ninth day of November, 1865.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.