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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO WILLIAM ROLLESTON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the several parcels of Waste Lands of the Crown particularly specified
and described in the Schedule hereunder written are required for the purposes mentioned and set
opposite to the descriptions of the said parcels of land respectively in the said Schedule, and that the
same have been respectively excepted from sale and reserved to Her Majesty by the Order in Council
bearing the date mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

FIRST COLUMN.
Description of Land.
Purpose for which Reserve is
made.
SECOND COLUMN.
Date of Order in
Council excepting
Land from Sale.

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Township of Waimate.
All that parcel of land, being sections numbered respec-
tively one hundred and five (105) and one hundred and six
(106), fronting upon Queen Street (opposite the Police
Reserve).
As a site for Post Office
and Telegraph Office.
7th September,
1870.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
seventh day of September, 1870.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Native
Reserves Act, 1856," it is enacted that the
Commissioners appointed under the said Act may,
with the assent of the Governor, set apart any lands
which shall have been reserved or set apart for the
benefit of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Colony,
over which lands the Native title shall have been
extinguished, by way of special endowment for
Schools, Hospitals, or other eleemosynary institutions,
for the benefit of the said aboriginal inhabitants:

And whereas by "The Native Reserves Amend-
ment Act, 1862," it is enacted that, from and after a
certain day, all the powers and authorities which by
the said first-recited Act are given to, or vested in,
or which may be exercised by Commissioners ap-
pointed under the said Act, shall vest in and may be
exercised by the Governor; and that where, under
the provisions of the said first-recited Act, any act
is required to be done by Commissioners with the
approval or assent of the Governor, it shall be suffi-
cient if such act be done by the Governor with the
advice of his Executive Council:

And whereas the piece of land described in the
Schedule hereto has been set apart for the benefit
of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Colony, and the
Native title over the same has been extinguished, and
it is expedient that the same should be set apart for
the purposes hereinafter mentioned:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of the powers in him vested
by the said recited Acts, and by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
doth hereby set apart all those pieces of land described
in the Schedule hereto as an endowment for schools,
for the construction and repair of school buildings,
and other eleemosynary institutions, if any, and pro-
Approved in Council, September 7th, 1870.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

viding masters and teachers, and payments of salaries
of such masters and teachers, and generally for the
purpose of founding and maintaining schools for the
instruction, education, and benefit of the aboriginal
inhabitants of New Zealand, being the Ngaitahu and
Ngatimamoe Tribes.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Province of South-
land, containing two thousand acres more or less, and
being the allotments numbered 13 on the plan of the
Waimumu Hundred, and 225 on the plan of the
Hokonui District.

The above Order in Council is substituted for the one pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette of the 27th July, 1870,
No. 40, page 369.

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
"The Provincial Elections Act, 1858," it is enacted
that, subject to certain provisions therein contained,
every election of the Superintendent or of a Member
of the Provincial Council of a Province shall be con-
ducted in the manner prescribed by "The Regulation
of Elections Act, 1858," aforesaid, and the provisions
of the said last-mentioned Act shall apply to the
elections of Superintendents and Members of Pro-
vincial Councils: