THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-ninth day of February, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.
J. C. RICHMOND.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers in me vested, I, Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the
following persons to be Returning Officers for the
Maori Electoral Districts hereinafter specified—

Northern Maori Electoral District,
ROBERT CLAPHAM BARSTOW, Esq., R.M.

Eastern Maori Electoral District,
GEORGE SISSON COOPER, Esq., R.M.

Western Maori Electoral District,
ROBERT PARRIS, Esq., R.M.

Southern Maori Electoral District,
ALEXANDER MACKAY, Esq., R.M.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth
day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
J. C. RICHMOND.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Resident
Magistrates' Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, from time to time, by pro-
clamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute
throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof,
districts, to be called Resident Magistrates' Districts,
and such districts from time to time to abolish, and
the boundaries to define and alter, and in such pro-
clamation to fix a time on and from which any such
district shall be constituted or abolished, as the case
may be. And whereas by a proclamation bearing
date the twenty-ninth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-
first day of December of the same year, certain
districts were constituted under the said Act,
amongst others, the "Mongonui District," and the
"Bay of Islands District." And whereas it is
expedient that the said districts should be consti-
tuted one district under the said Act:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
so vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and
declare that from the sixteenth day of March next,
the territory comprised within the said "Mongonui
District" and the "Bay of Islands District," shall
be one single district, within the meaning and for
the purposes of "The Resident Magistrates' Act,
1867," and shall be called

"THE BAY OF ISLANDS DISTRICT."

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand

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Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-
ninth day of February, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Native Lands Act, 1867,"
it is among other things provided that in any
case where under the said Act, ("The Native Lands
Act, 1865,") the Court would not have had jurisdic-
tion, it shall be competent to the said Court to
inquire into and determine any question affecting the
subdivision of or any title to or interest in any
Native Reserve, which may be referred to it by the
Governor. And whereas it is expedient that it should
be ascertained who are the Natives interested in the
Native Reserve mentioned in the Schedule hereunto
attached, and that the said Reserve should be sub-
divided accordingly, being a Reserve in respect of
which the assent of the aboriginal inhabitants to the
bringing of the said reserves under the operation of
"The Native Reserves Act, 1856," has been obtained:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
of the powers vested in me in that behalf, do hereby
refer to the Native Lands Court to determine who
are the Natives interested in the Reserve hereunder
described, and to order the subdivision of the same
among those Natives who may be so interested in
such manner as to the said Court shall seem fit, and
to order certificates to be issued according to the
plan of such subdivision in such or like manner as
is provided in the seventeenth section of "The
Native Lands Act, 1867."

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth
day of February, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.
J. C. RICHMOND.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece of land situate at the eastern
extremity of the Otago Peninsula, bounded on the
West by the Portobello District, on the East partly
by the Pilot Station and partly by the ocean, on the
South and south-east by the ocean, and on the North
by the waters of the Lower Harbour of Otago.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
twenty-seventh day of February, 1868.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The New Plymouth Exchanges
Commission Act, 1865," it is amongst other
things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor