Numb. 48.
463

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Otago Hundreds Regula-
tion Act, 1869," it is enacted that, subject to
the provisions in the said Act contained, it shall be
lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Pro-
clamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to
constitute into a Hundred any portion of the Waste
Lands of the Crown, within the Province of Otago,
not forming part of any Hundred for the time being
existing, notwithstanding that such lands or any part
thereof shall be comprised within any pastoral lease
or license theretofore or thereafter to be granted by
the Crown under any law regulating the occupation
or disposal of Waste Lands of the Crown, and
whether or not the same shall have been included
within the boundaries of any proclaimed gold field:

And whereas by "The Otago Hundreds Regulation
Act 1869 Amendment Act, 1870," it is enacted that
no Hundred shall thereafter be proclaimed in the
Province of Otago unless one third part at least of
the area thereof shall be determined under the pro-
visions of the said "Otago Hundreds Regulation Act,
1869," to be land available for agricultural purposes,
and that no Hundred shall exceed twenty thousand
acres in extent, and that, in determining the bound-
aries of all Hundreds thereafter proclaimed, due
regard shall be paid to the natural features of the
country over which any such Hundred is to be
proclaimed:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of all powers and authorities in
me vested, do hereby constitute and proclaim that
district or portion of the Waste Lands of the
Crown within the Province of Otago, not forming
part of any existing Hundred, particularly described
in the Schedule hereto, to be a Hundred under and
subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

Waiarika Hundred comprises all that area in the
Province of Otago, containing by estimation five
thousand eight hundred (5,800) acres, more or less,
situate in the South-eastern Pastoral District, being
part of original Run numbered 67 on the map of
the said district, bounded towards the North by Run
131, twenty-one thousand (21,000) links; towards
the East by Run 132, twenty-five thousand (25,000)
links; towards the South by Runs numbered re-
spectively 132 and 66, twenty-seven thousand (27,000)
links; and towards the West by the Tuturau Hun-
dred, thirty-six thousand (36,000) links; be all the
aforesaid linkages more or less.

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 nineteenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
sixteenth day of August, 1871.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS at a sitting of the Native Lands
Court of New Zealand, held at Hamilton, in
the District of Waikato, Province of Auckland, on
the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, the claim of Nini Kukutai
and others, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, residing
at Waikato, to a piece of land called Korakonui
No. 1, being a part of an island situate in the
Waikato River, in the district aforesaid, was heard,
and a certain order was thereupon made by the
Court aforesaid: And whereas it is enacted by "The
Native Lands Act, 1865," and "The Native Lands
Act, 1867," and "The Native Lands Act, 1870," that
the Governor in Council may order a rehearing of