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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
post office in the Chatham Islands for delivery at any
post office in the Colony not in the Chatham Islands;
or posted at any post office in the Colony, and not in
the County of Westland, for delivery at any post
office in the County of Westland; or posted at any
post office in the Colony, and not in the Chatham
Islands, for delivery at a post office in the Chatham
Islands-
Not exceeding half an ounce, threepence
Exceeding half an ounce but not exceed-
ing one ounce, sixpence
For every ounce or fraction of an ounce
exceeding one ounce, sixpence
3d.
6d.
6d.
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
at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of
November, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Approved in Council:
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Confiscated Lands Act,
1867," the Governor is empowered to reserve
out of lands taken under the New Zealand Settle-
ments Acts, such lands as to him shall seem fit, and
thereout to grant such portion thereof as he shall
think fit to such person or persons of the Native race
as he shall think deserving and shall appear to him
to have acted in the preservation of peace and order,
and in suppressing rebellion; and further to reserve
out of the said lands so taken as aforesaid such lands
as to him shall seem fit, and to grant such portions
thereof as he shall think fit to such person or persons
of the Native race as shall be proved to his satis-
faction to have been in rebellion and to have subse-
quently submitted to the Queen's authority. And
whereas certain persons of the tribes of Ngatiawa,
Taranaki, Ngatiruanui, and Ngarauru have so acted
in preservation of order, and certain others of the
said tribes having been in rebellion have submitted
to the Queen's authority:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, K.C.B., in
exercise of the above recited powers, do hereby
proclaim that five per cent. in the value of every
rural and suburban block within the districts of
Ngatiawa, Middle Taranaki, and Ngatiruanui, before
the same is offered for sale shall be reserved for the
benefit of such persons of the said tribes of Ngatiawa,
Taranaki, Ngatiruanui, and Ngarauru, as were
residing in the said districts on the thirtieth of
June last, and as the Governor may from time to
time appoint.

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, this
twenty-sixth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Approved in Council:
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Native Lands
Act, 1867," it is among other things enacted that
from and after such date as may be appointed by the
Governor in Council, the eighty-second section of
"The Native Lands Act, 1865," shall be repealed,
except so far as relates to the land included in the
Deed of Sale to the Crown, bearing date the thirteenth
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six, the boundaries of which land are set forth
in the second Schedule to the said first mentioned
Act:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, K.C.B., the
Governor, by and with the consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, in exercise of the power in me
vested in that behalf, do hereby appoint the thirtieth
day of November as the day from and after which the
eighty-second section of "The Native Lands Act,
1865," shall be repealed, except so far as relates to
the land included in the Deed of Sale, bearing date
the thirteenth day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six, the boundaries whereof are
set forth in the second Schedule to "The Native
Lands Act, 1867."

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, this
twenty-sixth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Approved in Council:
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Commissioners
Powers Act, 1867," certain powers are given to any
Board or Commission appointed or issued or to be
appointed or issued by the Governor in Council.
And whereas divers claims to compensation for losses
occasioned by, and for special services in suppressing
rebel Natives during the Whanganui war have been
preferred by settlers residing in the district of
Whanganui, and it is expedient that such claims
should be investigated and that their reasonable
amounts should be ascertained:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, K.C.B., the
Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony, do hereby appoint

Major JAMES TOWNSEND EDWARDS,
of Porirua, Resident Magistrate, to be a Commissioner
to investigate the said claims and ascertain their
reasonableness and respective amounts, and for this
purpose to take evidence and hear the said claimants
themselves, their counsel, or agents, and witnesses,
and do direct that the said Commissioner shall by one
or more reports, as he shall deem expedient, make
known to me what he shall have done in the premises.

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, this