390 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Street, and having a frontage of two chains, by a
depth of two chains and a-half, and numbered 39 in
red. For the Roman Catholic Church.

Two roods, more or less, situate on the West side
of Palmerston Street, in the Town of Okarito, com-
mencing at a point on the said street, the same being
four chains South of its intersection by Arthur Street,
and having a frontage of two chains, by a depth of
two chains and a-half, and numbered 40 in red. For
the Wesleyan Church.

Four acres and two roods, more or less, situate
at Rangiriri; bounded on the North and East by the
Teremakau River and Rangiriri Creek; on the South
by the mail road to Canterbury for a distance of
thirty-two chains; and on the West by a line, and
numbered 42 in red. For Government purposes.

Twenty-five acres, more or less, commencing at a
point on the mail road to Canterbury, the same being
about twenty-eight chains and fifty links East of the
twenty-first mile post; thence along the South side
of the said road to a point opposite the western
boundary of No. 42 (in red); thence on a bearing of
123° 30' (magnetic) for a distance of 27 chains, and
on a bearing of 108° 30' (magnetic) for a distance of
twenty-three chains to a creek, and down the said
creek to the commencing point, and numbered 43 in
red. For road purposes.

Sixty-eight acres, more or less; bounded on the
North by the mail road to Canterbury; on the East
by the Wainihinihi River; on the South by Reserve
No. 1 (in red); and on the West by Rangiriri Creek,
and numbered 44 in red. For road purposes.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifth day of August, 1868.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN 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 time 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-second day
of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
fifth day of August, 1868.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Militia Act,
1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council, from time to time, to constitute
throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, Militia
Districts, and such districts from time to time to
abolish, and the boundaries thereof to vary :

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, in exercise of the above recited power, doth
by this present order, constitute a Militia District in
the Province of Auckland, to be called by the name
following, namely—

The Poverty Bay District,
and doth define the said district to be all the territory
comprised within the circumference of a circle, having
a radius of 15 (fifteen) miles from the Mission
Station, Waerengahika.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th August, 1868.

IT is hereby notified that a writ issued for the
election of a Member of the House of Repre-
sentatives, for the Electoral District of Waikouaiti,
has been returned with a certificate to the effect that

ROBERT MITCHELL,
of Woodhead, Hawksbury, freeholder, has been duly
elected.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th August, 1868.

THE following Bills passed by the Provincial
Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of
the Province of Hawke's Bay, intituled—

" The Volunteers and Militia Remission Cer-
tificate Act, 1868;"

" The Appropriation Act, 1868;"

" The Hawke's Bay Loan Appropriation Act
Amendment Act, 1868;"

" Educational Rates Act, 1868;"

" The Credit Act, 1868;"

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th August, 1868.

THE following Bill passed by the Provincial
Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of
the Province of Hawke's Bay, intituled—

" Payment of Overdraft Act, 1868,"

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to withhold his assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th August, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

FREDERICK BASIRE, Esq.,

to be Deputy to the Registrar of Marriages, and of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the district of
Port Chalmers, as the same is defined in proclama-
tion of 30th November, 1865, and published in New
Zealand Gazette No. 48, of 11th December, 1865.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th August, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN BARLEYMAN, Esq.,
to be Emigration Officer at the port of Wairau, in
the Province of Marlborough.

E. W. STAFFORD.