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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1867.

G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
The twenty-first day of May, 1867.
Present:
THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Court of Appeal Act, 1862,"
it is enacted that the Court shall hold its
sittings at such times and places as shall be, from
time to time, fixed by the Governor in Council, and
proclaimed in the Government Gazette sixty days at
least before the times so fixed respectively:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
New Zealand, doth hereby fix that a sitting of the
Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be held within
the Supreme Court, in the City of Wellington and
Province of Wellington, upon the twenty-fourth day
of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,
at Eleven of the clock in the forenoon.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st May, 1867.

IT is hereby notified that the Speaker of the
Provincial Council of the Province of Hawke's
Bay has reported that

DONALD MCLEAN, Esq.,

has been duly elected Superintendent of that Province
under the provisions of the "New Provinces Act,
1858."

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 17th May, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by

HUGH JONES, Esq., J.P.,

of his appointment as Warden on the South-west
Gold Fields of the Province of Nelson.

E. W. STAFFORD.

WHEREAS by "The East Coast Land Titles
Investigation Act, 1866," it is enacted that the
provisions of "The Native Land Act, 1865," respect-
ing the powers and proceedings of the Native Land
Court, shall, except as therein is otherwise provided,
be applicable to the proceedings of the said Court
under the said Act now in recital; and it is further
provided that within the District, the boundaries

whereof are defined in the Schedule to the said Act
and hereunder, the Native Land Court shall have
full power and jurisdiction to inquire into and
determine the title to all and any land or lands,
whether claimed by or belonging to Aboriginal
Natives or other British subjects, and whether or
not such investigation shall be required on the part
of any person or persons claiming title thereto, and
to award by certificate, issued under the direction of
the Court, that grants of land may be made to such
Natives or other persons respectively who shall be
found to be entitled thereto as shall not have been
engaged in the rebellion, and in those cases in which
it shall be found that Natives who have been engaged
in the rebellion are, or but for such participation
in rebellion, would have been entitled to land jointly
with other Natives who shall not have been so
engaged, to make an equitable partition of such land,
to assign to the Natives so entitled who shall not
have been so engaged their just portion of such land,
and to ascertain and certify what lands are, or but
for participation in the rebellion, would have been
the property of persons who have been engaged in
rebellion.

And whereas on or about the twenty-sixth day of
April instant, a requisition was made to me by the
Hon. James Crowe Richmond, one of the members
of the Executive Council of the Colony, to fix a
sitting of the Native Land Court for the purpose
hereinbefore mentioned.

Now, therefore I, Francis Dart Fenton, Esq., the
Chief Judge of the said Native Land Court, in
execution of the power vested in me under "The
Native Land Act, 1865," and the rules made there-
under, and in pursuance of the said recited Act, do
hereby fix a sitting of the Native Land Court, to be
holden at Turanganui, in the Province of Auckland,
on the third day of July next, for the purpose herein-
before set forth, with reference to the said block of
land described in the Schedule hereunder written.

Dated the thirtieth day of April, 1867.

F. D. FENTON, Chief Judge.

SCHEDULE.

All that territory within the Province of Auckland,
bounded as follows:—To the North and East by the
sea from Lottery Point to the northern boundary of
the Province of Hawke's Bay, thence by the said
boundary to the summit of the Maunga Haruru
Range, thence by a line to Haurangi, thence by a
line to Purororangi, thence by a line to Hikurangi,
and thence by a line to Lottery Point.

Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.