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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1870.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council bearing date
the thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy, certain Regulations for the
sale and disposal of Confiscated Lands were made,
but it was in the said Regulations provided that the
said Regulations should take effect within such limits,
and be applicable to such districts only, as the Go-
vernor might by Proclamation from time to time
direct and declare:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the said Regulations shall take effect
within the limits set forth in the Schedule hereto
annexed.

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; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at Wellington, this twentieth
day of April, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
W. GISBORNE.

SCHEDULE.
West Coast District, viz.:
The confiscated districts known as Ngatiawa,
Middle Taranaki, and Ngatiruanui Districts.

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

At the Government House, at Auckland, this first
day of March, 1870.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The New Zealand
Native Reserves Act, 1856," certain powers therein

specified are vested in the Commissioners under the
said Act : And whereas by another Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The
Native Reserves Amendment Act, 1862," all the
powers and authorities which by "The New Zealand
Native Reserves Act, 1856," are given to or vested
in, or which may be exercised by, Commissioners
appointed or to be appointed under that Act, shall
vest in and may be exercised by the Governor; and
it is by the said Act further enacted, that the
Governor may, by Order in Council, from time to
time delegate all or any of the powers competent to
the Commissioners under the said Act unto any
person or persons for any period, and subject to any
regulations or stipulations as may be specified in
such Order:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fer-
guson Bowen, in exercise of the power and authority
so vested in him as Governor as aforesaid, doth by
this Order in Council delegate, until this Order
shall be revoked, to

Major CHARLES HEAPHY, V.C.,

all the powers competent to Commissioners under
the said first-recited Act, without any restrictions or
stipulations whatever.

Approved in Council this first day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
H. W. YOUNG,
Acting Military Secretary
(for Clerk of the Executive Council).

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

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-eighth day of March, 1870.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Electric Tele-
graph Act, 1865," the Governor of New Zealand is
empowered to establish lines of electric telegraph,
and to purchase any lines of electric telegraph then
existing: And whereas by the said Act it is amongst