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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1866.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Intestate Estates Act,
1865," it is enacted that the said Act shall
come into force in each Province of the Colony
respectively on such day as the Governor may fix by
Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette: Now
therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor as afore-
said, in pursuance and exercise of the said power and
authority in me vested, do hereby appoint and fix
the first day of May next to be the day on and from
which the said "Intestate Estates Act, 1865," shall
come into force within each of the following Pro-
vinces, viz., the Province of Nelson, the Province of
Canterbury, and the Province of Wellington, in the
said Colony.

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, and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at
Wellington, this third day of April, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.

E. W. STAFFORD.

in the Schedule to that Act annexed: Provided
always that every such Proclamation shall contain
the description, occupation, or calling of every person
therein named, and his place of residence at the date
of such Proclamation:

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

CHRISTIAN EMIL PETERSEN,
from the fifth day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, native of Schleswig-Holstein,
Germany, hotel-keeper; residence, Dunedin, in the
Province of Otago.

HERMANN LUKS,
from the first day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three, native of Oldenburg, Ger-
many, hotel-keeper; residence, Waikouaiti, in the
Province of Otago.

BERNARD LUKS,
from the first day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three, native of Oldenburg, Ger-
many, hotel-keeper; residence, Waikouaiti, in the
Province of Otago.

CHRISTIAN C. BLUCHER,
from the first day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five, native of Magdeburg, Prussian
Germany, licensed surveyor; residence, Auckland,
in the Province of Auckland.

DORETTA BLUCHER,
wife of the above.

EDMUND BLUCHER,
WILLIAM BLUCHER,
GUSTAVE BLUCHER,
sons of the above.

RUDOLPH PLATOW,
from the twelfth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six, native of Pillau, Prussia,
miner; residence, Arrow River, in the Province of
Otago.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION
For the Naturalization of certain Persons.

WHEREAS by "The Naturalization Act, 1865,"
it is enacted that every person who shall be
declared to come within the operation of that Act by
any Proclamation to be issued in that behalf by His
Excellency the Governor, shall, as from the time in
such Proclamation specified, be deemed and taken,
until the termination of the next session of the
General Assembly, to be, and to have been, from such
specified time, a natural-born subject of Her Majesty,
within the Colony of New Zealand, as fully to all
intents and purposes as if his name had been inserted