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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1870.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of Sep-
tember, 1870.

Present:
THE HONORABLE DONALD MCLEAN, NATIVE AND
DEFENCE MINISTER, PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS
OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The District Courts Amendment
Act, 1865," it is enacted that the powers
conferred on Judges of District Courts in and by
the twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh
sections of "The District Courts Act, 1858," shall
be exercised only within such districts as shall from
time to time be named by the Governor, by Order in
Council published in the New Zealand Gazette, as
districts within which such powers may be exercised:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, doth hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the
power and authority vested in him in that behalf,
name and declare

THE WESTLAND NORTH DISTRICT, and
THE COUNTY OF WESTLAND DISTRICT,
as defined in and by a certain Proclamation dated the
twenty-eighth day of June last, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette on the thirtieth day of June
last, to be districts within which the powers conferred
by the twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh
sections of "The District Courts Act, 1858," may be
exercised.

DONALD MCLEAN,
Presiding.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The New Zealand
Settlements Acts Amendment Act, 1866," power is
given to the Governor to reserve portions of any of
the land taken under "The New Zealand Settlements
Act, 1863," for the several purposes for which
reserves may be made under the twelfth section of
"The Waste Lands Act, 1858," and may make
grants thereof under "The Public Reserves Act,
1854," or otherwise, as the case may require: And
whereas the purposes for which such reserves may
be made under the said twelfth section of the said
"Waste Lands Act, 1858," are for the construction
of trunk lines of road, or as sites for public buildings
for the use of the General Government, or for other
purposes of public utility or convenience: And
whereas the piece of land described in the Schedule
hereunder written has been taken under "The New
Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and it is expedient
that it should be reserved for the purpose herein
set forth:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of the powers so vested in me, do hereby
except from sale and reserve to Her Majesty, her
heirs and successors, the piece of land described in
the Schedule hereunder written, as a Ferry Reserve,
or for other purposes of the General Government.

SCHEDULE.
PROVINCE OF TARANAKI.
All that parcel of land, containing five (5) acres
two (2) roods and thirty-five (35) perches, more or
less, situated on the eastern bank of the Patea
River, opposite Blocks XXI. and XXVI., Township
of Carlyle, bounded towards the North-east and
East by a creek; and towards the West by the Patea
River and a road about two hundred (200) links and
one thousand (1,000) links.

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 Auckland, this sixth day of
October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.