THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
fourteenth day of December, 1870.
Present :
THE HONORABLE DONALD MCLEAN, NATIVE AND
DEFENCE MINISTER, PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS
OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

IN exercise of the powers vested in the Governor
by "The Native Reserves Act, 1856," and
"The Native Reserves Amendment Act, 1862," the
Governor, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council, doth order that the land here-
after described, that is to say, All that parcel of
land, containing by admeasurement thirteen (13)
acres three (3) roods twenty (20) perches, be the
same more or less, situated in the District of Motueka,
being a portion of Native Reserve Sections Nos. 145
and 146 on the plan of the said district, bounded
towards the North, 1,082 links, by a portion of Section
146; towards the East, 1,275 links, by a portion of
Sections 145 and 146, of which this forms part; and
towards the South and West by high water-mark of
the Moutere Mud Flat, being land subject to the
operation of the said Acts, shall be sold to the Super-
intendent of the Province of Nelson, on behalf of the
said Province, for the sum of one hundred pounds
(£100).

Approved in Council.
DONALD MCLEAN, Presiding
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
twenty-first day of December, 1870.
Present :
THE HONORABLE WILLIAM FOX, PRIME MINISTER,
PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Arms Act, 1860," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Gover-
nor, by Warrant under his hand, from time to time,
to appoint persons to make and issue licenses in the
forms or to the effect respectively set forth in the
Schedule to the said Act, which persons are in the
said Act designated as Licensing Officers, and any
such persons at his pleasure to remove, and that
there shall be paid to the Licensing Officer the fees
set forth in the said Schedule: And whereas by
"The Arms Act Continuance Act, 1861," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor
in Council, in any case when he may think proper,
to alter or vary the scale of fees imposed in the
Schedule to the said "Arms Act, 1860," provided
that they be not so altered as to exceed the amounts
thereby fixed: And whereas it is desirable to alter
or vary the fees payable to the Licensing Officer
as hereinafter declared:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor,
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, and in exercise and pur-
suance of all powers and authorities enabling him in
this behalf, doth hereby order and declare that the
fee payable to the Licensing Officer for a license in
form B in the Schedule to the said "Arms Act,
1860," shall be the sum of two pounds, excepting by
dealers or persons in the towns of Auckland,
Shortland, Grahamstown, Napier, Wellington, Wan-
ganui, New Plymouth, Nelson, Blenheim, Westport,
Greymouth, Hokitika, Lyttelton, Christchurch,
Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, and Invercargill, who
shall continue to pay to the Licensing Officer for a
license in the said form the fee mentioned in the
Schedule to the said "Arms Act, 1860."

FORSTER GORING,
WILLIAM FOX, Presiding.
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
fourteenth day of December, 1870.
Present :
THE HONOURABLE DONALD MCLEAN, NATIVE AND
DEFENCE MINISTER PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS
OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The District
Courts Act 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, in
exercise of the power and authority so vested in
him as aforesaid, doth, by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council, name and appoint
the District of Timaru, as defined in and by a certain
Proclamation, dated the fourteenth day of December
instant, to be a district within which the Judge of the
District Court of Timaru may exercise the powers
conferred by the twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, and
twenty-seventh sections of "The District Courts
Act, 1858."

DONALD MCLEAN. Presiding.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
HEREAS by "The Colonial Courts-Martial
Act, 1868," it is enacted that for the purpose
of bringing to justice persons on actual service in the
Militia or Volunteer Forces, and persons in the New
Zealand Armed Constabulary, employed or on service
in Disturbed Districts, proclaimed as such as in the
said Act mentioned, who shall offend against the
provisions contained in any Act of the Imperial
Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland for the time
being in force and applicable in New Zealand as
aforesaid, for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and
for the better payment of the Army and their
quarters, and against the Articles of War made
under the authority of any such Act, it shall be
lawful for the Governor to authorize any officer
holding a command in the Militia or Volunteer
Forces aforesaid, or in the New Zealand Armed
Constabulary aforesaid, to convene Courts-Martial
as occasion may require, for the trial of offences
committed by any of the Forces under the command
of any such officer, whether the same shall have been
committed before or after such officer shall have
taken upon him such command, provided that the
officer so authorized be not below the degree of a
Field Officer of the Militia or Volunteer Forces, or
a Commandant in the Armed Constabulary aforesaid,
except in detached situations, where a Field Officer
or Commandant as aforesaid is not in command, in
which case a Captain of Militia or Volunteers, or an
Inspector in the Armed Constabulary, may be
authorized to convene District or Garrison Courts-