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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
of the power in me for this purpose vested by "The
Customs Regulation Act, 1858," do hereby appoint
that, on and from the date hereof, there shall be
within the Province of Marlborough a Port to be
called

THE PORT OF HAVELOCK,

the limits whereof shall be as follows:-The waters
of Pelorus Sound, inside of a straight line drawn
from Whakamawahi Point, between Kanaroa Bay
and Hikuraki Sound to Tewero Point, together with
the site of the town of Havelock.

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 September, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.

J. C. RICHMOND,
Commissioner.

Governor's Order, No. 89.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Otago Municipal Corpora-
tions Empowering Act, 1865," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint
the person elected to be Mayor of any city or incor-
porated town as therein mentioned, to be a Justice
of the Peace for the Colony, provided that in every
such case such appointment shall continue no longer
than the Mayoralty of such person: And whereas
James Elder Brown, Esquire, has been elected
Mayor for the Town of Milton:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and in
exercise of the power and authority vested in me in
that behalf, do hereby appoint the said

JAMES ELDER BROWN, Esq.,

to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New
Zealand.

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 tenth day
of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1868.

IN conformity with the provisions of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1867," the following
Petition from Inhabitant Ratepayers of Wellington
for the City of Wellington to be constituted a
Borough, and Letter of Assent from His Honor the
Superintendent, are published for general information,
and it is hereby notified that His Excellency the
Governor will consider the Petition on the 18th of
December next.

E. W. STAFFORD.

To 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,
The humble Petition of the undersigned Rate-
payers of the City of Wellington :

SHOWETH—
That your Petitioners are desirous that the City
of Wellington should be constituted a Borough,
under an Act of the General Assembly of New
Zealand, dated 10th October, 1867, and being 31
Victoria, No. 24, intituled "An Act to provide for
the establishment of Municipal Corporations," and
that the boundaries of the City of Wellington, for
the purposes of this Petition, should be the same as
the limits thereof are settled and described in the
plan of the Town of Wellington, Port Nicholson,
annexed to a certain Crown Grant of the New
Zealand Company, dated the 27th day of January,
1848, under the Seal of the Colony, and under the
hand of Sir George Grey, the then Governor-in-Chief
of the Colony, and which Crown Grant was registered
at Wellington on the 19th day of June, 1850, No.
204; and also such portions of the Harbour of Wel-
lington as are comprised in a certain Crown Grant
thereof, dated the 16th day of October, 1855; and
also the Town Belt, the Canal and Basin, and the
Public Reserves belonging to the said city of Wel-
lington.

That the said City of Wellington has been or is
reputed to have been incorporated by an Act of the
Provincial Council of Wellington, Session 14, No. 9,
intituled "An Act to incorporate the Board of
Works for the City of Wellington and for other
purposes."

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your
Excellency will be pleased to constitute the City of
Wellington a Borough under the provisions of the
said Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
to be bounded as hereinbefore set forth.

And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.

J. Dransfield,
Robert Pharazyn,
John Plimmer,
Lewis Moss,
Edwd. W. Mills,
C. B. Borlase,
Michael Quin,
Charles Sharp,
Walter Mantell,
Edward Owen,
Robert Smart,
J. M. Taylor,
F. A. Krull,
J. A. Allan,
G. Hall,
H. F. Logan,
G. H. Vennell,
Edward Reeves,
W. M. Bannatyne,
W. B. Rhodes,
William Lowes,
W. Clark,
Thomas Farmery and Co.,
M. Mulligan,
Charles D. Barraud,
Joseph Burne,
B. Poulson,
L. Levy,
T. J. Mountain,
W. Gibson,
S. S. Downes,
D. T. Smith,