THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Waste Lands of the Crown in any of the Provinces
of New Zealand as may be required for the purposes
of military defence, or for the construction of trunk
lines of road, or as sites for public buildings for the
use of the General Government, or for other purposes
of public utility and convenience, and that all such
exceptions shall be deemed to have been made when-
ever the Governor, by writing under his hand, shall
have notified to the Superintendent of the Province
in which any land so excepted is situate that the
same is required for any of the purposes aforesaid,
and such notification shall have been published in
the New Zealand Gazette.

And whereas by "The Electric Telegraph Act,
1865," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor to establish lines of communication by
electric telegraph throughout the Colony, and for
this purpose it is expedient to except from sale the
land hereinafter described:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, K.C.B., the
Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
and in exercise of the above powers do by this writing
under my hand, notify to the Superintendents of the
Provinces of Auckland and Napier, that the land
hereinafter described, that is to say—so much and
such part of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the
said Provinces of Auckland and Napier, as is
included between two lines drawn on each side of
parallel to and at a distance of a chain from the line
of electric telegraph laid down in the said Province,
from Auckland to Cambridge, Kihikihi, Alexandra,
and Napier, is required for the purposes of the
electric telegraph.

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-ninth day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Approved in Council:

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
twenty-ninth day of November, 1867.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and
authorities enabling him in this behalf, His
Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice
of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby
order that so much of the Regulation No. 3 of
Regulations made on the fourth day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, under
and in pursuance of "The Stamp Duties Act, 1866,"
as provides that the official impress to be given to
Stamps affixed at the several Stamp Offices, should
be made by the Seals of the respective Registrars of
Deeds, shall, except as to such deeds and instruments
as have been so impressed, be revoked and can-
celled.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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G. GREY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
twenty-ninth day of November, 1867.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS at a sitting of the Native Lands Court
of New Zealand, held at Wanganui, in the
District of Wanganui, Province of Wellington, on the
twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven, the claim of Aperahama Tipae and
others, to a piece of land called Te Waikupa, situate at
Whangaehu, in the said district, was heard, and a
certain order was 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 rehearing 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
rehearing, and within such a period of time as may
be limited in such: provided that no such order for
a rehearing 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
reheard 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 Aperhama Tipae and others to
the aforesaid piece of land shall be reheard before
the undermentioned Judge of the Native Lands
Court, that is to say—

THOMAS HENRY SMITH, Esq.,

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

HOANI MEIHANA TE RANGIOTU,
PARAKAIA TE PONEPA.

And doth order that such rehearing shall take place
before the first day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th December, 1867.

THE following Despatches, with enclosures, from
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
the Colonies, are published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

(No. 62.)
Downing Street,
26th September, 1867.

SIR,—I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your Despatch, No. 64, of the 15th of
June last, accompanied by a Petition to the Queen,
from the Provincial Council of Otago, praying that
Her Majesty "may cause an Act to be introduced
into the Imperial Parliament to provide for the
separation of the North and Middle Islands of New
Zealand into two separate and independent Colonies,
with such provisions for a Federal Union as Her
Majesty's advisers may esteem desirable."

I request that you will inform the Speaker of the
Council, by whom the Petition is signed, that I have
been unable to advise Her Majesty to comply with
the prayer which it contains.

I have, &c.,

BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS.

Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B., &c.

[Circular.]
Downing Street,
18th July, 1867.

SIR,—I transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter
from the Board of Trade, with copies of a Circular