Numb. 72.

613

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
sixteenth day of December, 1868.
Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is
amongst other things enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, from
time to time to constitute for any Gold Field, or for
any part thereof, Wardens' Courts, for the adminis-
tration of justice therein, and to appoint Wardens
of such Courts, with power to act alone or with
assessors, and in such manner, and to exercise all or
any of the powers thereinafter mentioned, as the
Governor shall think fit to direct:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, doth hereby, in pursuance
and exercise of the power and authority vested in
him for this purpose, appoint

WILLIAM WHITEHORN, Esq.,

to be a Warden of all Wardens' Courts now con-
stituted, or hereafter to be constituted, within the
Gold Fields of the Province of Marlborough, with
power to him to act alone or with assessors, and to
exercise all or any of the powers vested in or
imposed on Judges of Wardens' Courts.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
sixteenth day of December, 1868.
Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Maori Real Estate Manage-
ment Act, 1867," it is enacted that if any title
to or interest in any hereditaments shall accrue to
any Maoris who, or any of whom, shall be infants,
lunatics, or under legal disability, it shall be lawful
for the Governor in Council, if he think fit, to order

that such hereditaments, or any part thereof, or
interest therein, as shall to the Governor in Council
be shown to belong to such infant, lunatic, or other
person under legal disability, shall be vested in
trustees, as the Governor in Council shall think fit:
And whereas by virtue of a Crown Grant bearing date
the fourth day of December, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, the parcel of land and
hereditaments described in the Schedule hereto
became vested in Mere Hakaraia Kiharoa, of the Dis-
trict of Otaki, Province of Wellington, an aboriginal
native of New Zealand: And whereas the said Mere
Hakaraia Kiharoa is an infant under the age of twenty-
one years:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fergu-
son Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, in exercise and in pursuance of the powers
and authorities vested in him by the said Act, doth
hereby order that the lands described in the Schedule
hereto shall be and remain vested in

KIHAROA MAHUARIKI, and
KAKARAINA HAKARAIA KIHAROA,
of Otaki, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, as
Trustees within the meaning and for the purposes of
the said Act for the said Mere Hakaraia Kiharoa,
her heirs and assigns.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Province of Welling-
ton containing by admeasurement three (3) roods
and eleven (11) perches, more or less, situate at
Otaki, District of Otaki, being lots numbered fifty-
three (53), fifty-four (54), and fifty-five (55) of the
Town of Hadfield, Otaki; bounded towards the South
by a street, two hundred and fifty-six (256) links;
towards the West by Te Rauparaha Street, three
hundred and twenty (320) links; towards the North
by lot fifty-six (56), two hundred and fifty-six (256)
links; and towards the East by lots sixty-three (63),
sixty-two (62), and sixty-one (61,) three hundred and
twenty (320) links.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.