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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Public Houses Act, 1868,"
it is enacted that whenever the Colonial Forces
shall be employed for the purpose of suppressing
rebellion or other disturbances in any part of the
Colony, and shall be stationed at any place near to or
within such part, it shall be lawful for the Governor
from time to time by Proclamation to declare that,
from and after a day to be fixed therein, such part of
the Colony as shall be defined in the Proclamation
shall be a Proclaimed District within the meaning
and for the purposes of the said Act, and thereupon
it shall not be lawful for any person, whether holding
a license under any Act or Ordinance regulating the
sale of wine, ale, beer, or spirits, or not, to sell or
supply any wine, beer, or spirituous or fermented
liquor of any kind without the permission of such
person as the Governor shall from time to time
appoint to grant permits for the sale of such articles
within such district:

And whereas the Colonial Forces are now employed
in suppressing rebellion and other disturbances in
the part of the Colony hereinafter described, and are
stationed in and near such part:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise
of the power and authority for that purpose vested
in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare
that all that part of the Colony situated in the Pro-
vince of Auckland, and bounded as follows--The
sea coast, from the North Head of the Ohiwa Harbour
to Cape Runaway; thence a straight line to the sum-
mit of Maungapohetu; thence a straight line to the
summit of Peke Peke; thence a straight line to the
commencing point at the North Head of the Ohiwa
Harbour--shall, from and after the tenth day of
January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy,
be a Proclaimed District within the meaning and for
the purposes of "The Public Houses Act, 1868,"
aforesaid.

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
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Auckland; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony this thirty-first
day of December, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.

W. GISBORNE,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of November,
1869.

Present:

THE HONORABLE THE PREMIER, PRESIDING, AND
MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Native Re-
serves Amendment Act, 1862," it is amongst other
things provided that where, under the provisions of
"The Native Reserves Act, 1856," the assent of the
Aboriginal Inhabitants is required to bringing land
under the operation of the said "Native Reserves
Act, 1856," the Governor may, by Order in Council,
declare such assent to have been ascertained, and
thereupon the title of the Aboriginal Inhabitants in
the land to which the same shall relate shall be
deemed to be extinguished, and the lands shall, from
the date of such Order in Council, vest in Her
Majesty for the purposes, and subject to the pro-
visions, of the said "Native Reserves Act, 1856," as
attested by the recited Act, and that as effectually
as if the same had been ceded and conveyed by such
Aboriginal Inhabitants to Her Majesty:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, doth hereby declare that the assent of the
Aboriginal Inhabitants to the bringing the pieces of
land described in the Schedules A. B. C. hereunder
written, under the operation of "The Native Re-
serves Act, 1856," has been ascertained.

WILLIAM Fox,
Presiding.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE A.

All that piece of land situate at the Pelorus, in the
Province of Marlborough, and known as a Native
Reserve, numbered 19 on the plan of the said dis-
trict, containing by admeasurement 46 acres, more or
less; bounded towards the North by a road along
the banks of the River Pelorus; towards the East by
the said river; towards the South by a road; and
towards the West, 23 chains, by a road bounding
section 20 on the plan of the said district.

SCHEDULE B.

All that piece of land situate at the Pelorus, in the
Province of Marlborough, and known as a Native
Reserve, numbered 32 on the plan of the said dis-
trict, containing by admeasurement 230 acres, more
or less; bounded towards the North partly by a
road along the banks of the River Pelorus, partly by
a road along the Makainui Stream, and partly by the
said stream; towards the East by the River Waka-
marina; towards the South, 49 chains, by Crown
land; and towards the West, 63 chains, partly by
Crown land and partly by a road bounding section
40 on the plan of the said district.

SCHEDULE C.

All that piece of land situate at the Pelorus, in
the Province of Marlborough, containing by admea-
surement 59 acres, more or less, and known as
section No. 26 on the plan of the said district;
bounded towards the North by a public road;
towards the East, 3,000 links, partly by freehold
land and partly by Crown land; towards the South,
2,100 links, by Crown land; and towards the West,
2,960 links, also by Crown land.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly,
intituled "The Regulation of Elections Act,
1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor, by Warrant under his hand, from time to
time to appoint polling places for each Electoral
District within or without the limits thereof, and to
appoint any one of such places to be the principal
polling place for the district, and all or any of such
polling places at any time to abolish, and to appoint
other polling places in lieu thereof: And whereas
by another Act of the General Assembly, intituled