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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

7. Applications for passages are to be addressed to
   the Provincial Secretary, Blenheim, in the following
   form, viz: :-
   I, the undersigned, hereby apply for the passage to
   Marlborough, under the Regulations of 4th Septem-
   ber, 1871, of
   Name
   Age
   Calling
   Address in full
   , being
   for which I herewith pay the sum of
   equal to
   adults at £8 per adult, and hereby
   agree to receive the Immigrants above named imme-
   diately on their arrival in Marlborough
   Dated at
   this
   day of

8. (Signature and address of Applicant.)

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 at
Wellington, this fourth day of September,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.
W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS on the fourteenth day of December,
one thousand eight huudred and sixty-nine,
in pursuance of the powers then vested in the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand by the
regulations contained in the Schedule to a certain
Proclamation made by him, and dated the seventeenth
day of November, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine, certain days were appointed to be the
days on which the Waste Lands Board of the County
of Westland should sit at the principal Land Office
of the said County in the Town of Hokitika: And
whereas by "The Westland Waste Lands Act,
1870," it is among other things enacted that the
principal Land Office of the said County shall be
kept at the Town of Hokitika, and the Waste Lands
Board shall sit there, and at certain stated times to
be determined from time to time by the Governor, as
therein mentioned: And whereas it is expedient to
appoint other days for the sitting of the said Board
in lieu of those so appointed as aforesaid.

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
of the power and authority vested in me in that
behalf by "The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870,"
do hereby fix and determine that sittings of the
Waste Lands Board for the County of Westland
shall be held at the Land Office in the Town of
Hokitika, on the first and third Tuesdays in every
month, at the hour of Noon, and that the first of
such sittings shall be held on Tuesday, the nineteenth
day of September next.

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 Wellington, this
twenty-eighth day of August, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st September, 1871.
THE following Letter from the Chairman of the
Flax Commission is published for general infor-
mation.

W. GISBORNE.

Flax Commission,
Wellington, N.Z., 19th August, 1871.
SIR, I have the honor to inform you that the Col-
lection of Flax Samples which has been made by the
Commissioners, in accordance with the instructions
contained in His Excellency's Commission, has been
arranged for exhibition in the Colonial Museum, and
will be open to the inspection of Members of Assem-
bly and the general public on Monday, 21st instant.
A Descriptive Catalogue, and also the Report of
the Commissioners to His Excellency, are in the
printer's hands.

I am, &c.,
JAMES HECTOR,
The Hon. the Colonial Secretary,
Wellington.
Chairman.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st September, 1871.
THE following Acts, passed by the Provincial
Council, and reserved by the Superintendent
of the Province of Marlborough for the signification
of the Governor's pleasure thereon, intituled-
"The Superintendents Lands Alienation Act,
1871," and
"The Scab Act, 1871,"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to assent to the same.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th September, 1871.
THE following Ordinances, passed by the Provin-
cial Council, and assented to by the Superin-
tendent of the Province of Otago, intituled-
"Imprest Supply Ordinance, 1871;"
"Sheep Ordinance 1866 (Southland) Repeal
Ordinance, 1871"
"Goat Nuisance Ordinance, 1871;"
"Sheep Inspection Assessment Ordinance,
1871;"
"Fencing Ordinance 1867 Amendment Ordi-
nance, 1871;"
"Payment to Members Ordinance, 1871;"
"Invercargill Athenæum Ordinance, 1871;" and
"Appropriation Ordinance, 1871-72;"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excel-
lency has not been advised to exercise his power of
disallowance in respect to them.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th September, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
WILLIAM STUART, Esq.,
of his appointments as Registrar of Deeds and Dis-
trict Land Registrar for the Westland Deeds Regis-
tration District and the Westland Land Registration
Districts, respectively.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th September, 1871.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JAMES MEACHAM BATHAM, Esq.,