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397

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council, bearing date
the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, 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 in respect to all
confiscated lands in the North Island excepting
those in the Province of Auckland, and that the
Governor might by Proclamation at any time direct
and declare that the said Regulations or any of them
should take effect in the said Province of Auckland
or any part thereof:

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 said Province of Auckland, from the first
day of September, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one.

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 twelfth day of August, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.

DONALD MCLEAN.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation made under the
provisions of "The Militia Act, 1870," dated
the fifth day of December, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette of the sixteenth day of December in the same
year, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and
pursuance of the powers and authorities enabling him
in that behalf, ordered, among other things, that such
part of the Militia of the several Militia Districts
named in the Schedule thereto as was specified in
such Schedule, and opposite to the name of which
district the specification of such part was set, should
be trained as a Military Force: And whereas the
whole of the Militia of the several Militia Districts
mentioned in the Schedule to the hereinbefore in part
recited Proclamation were ordered to be trained as
aforesaid: And whereas it is expedient to release
the Third Class Militia of the several Militia Districts
named in the Schedule hereto from training and
exercise:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities
enabling me in this behalf, do hereby order that the
Third Class Militia of the several Militia Districts
specified in the Schedule hereto shall from and after
the day of the date hereof be released from training
and exercise under the said Act.

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 Welling-
ton, this twelfth day of August, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one.

DONALD MCLEAN.

SCHEDULE.
The Rangitikei District.
The Wellington District.
The Greytown District.
The Masterton District.
The South Napier District.
The North Napier District.
The Wairoa (Hawke's Bay) District.