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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in me vested in this behalf by "The
Resident Magistrates Act, 1867," I, Sir George
Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that,
from and after the second day of November next, the
jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates' Courts for
the
CLUTHA DISTRICT, and
SOUTHLAND DISTRICT,
respectively, as the same are defined by Proclamation
bearing date the thirtieth day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, shall be
extended to One Hundred Pounds.

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; and issued under
the Public Seal of the said Colony, this
twenty-eighth day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-eighth day of October, 1868.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COURCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand intituled "The Bay of Islands
Settlements Act, 1858," the Governor was
empowered
to set apart, on the western side of the Bay of

Islands, an eligible site for colonization, and to take
for such settlement certain land in the said Act
specified, and within such settlement to cause a town
to be surveyed and laid out, and also suburban and
rural allotments; and it is further provided by the
said Act that all such town, suburban, and rural
lands shall be let, sold, occupied, and disposed of for
such prices, in such manner, for such purposes, upon
such laws, and subject to such regulations, as the
Governor in Council shall from time to time prescribe
for that purpose:

And whereas it is expedient that a regulation
should be made authorizing the Governor to make
reserves for the purpose of the General Government:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, andin exercise of the above power, doth by this
present Order make the following regulation for the
purposes hereinbefore recited, and such regulation
shall be held and deemed to apply to lands comprised
in the aforesaid settlement :-

PUBLIC RESERVES.

It shall be lawful for the Governor, at any time
and from time to time, to except from sale and
reserve to Her Majesty such of the Waste Lands of
the Crown within the Bay of Islands Settlement as
may be required for any of the purposes specified in
the twelfth section of "The Waste Lands Act, 1858,"
and such reserves shall be deemed to have been made
whenever the land so required has been notified by
the Colonial Secretary, as reserved, in the New
Zealand Gazette.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

At the Government House at Wellington, this
twenty-eighth day of October, 1868.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Public Domains Act, 1860,"
it is enacted that the Governor, by Order in