38 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

WHEREAS by the seventeenth section of "The
Outlying Districts Sale of Spirits Act, 1870,"
it is enacted that the Ordinance of the Lieutenant-
Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand,
intituled "An Ordinance to prohibit the Sale &c. of
Spirits, and to regulate the Sale &c. of other Intoxi-
cating Liquors, to Persons of the Native Race,"
Session VIII., No. 3, shall, except in any such Town,
District, or Province as may be included in any such
Order in Council as thereinafter provided, be repealed
on and from the thirty-first day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy: And whereas
it is by the eighteenth section of the said Act
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council, at any time before the said thirty-first day
of December, to suspend the operation of the last
preceding section of the said Act within any Town,
Province, or District within the Colony, and at any
time thereafter to revoke any such Order in Council,
and upon any such revocation the said Ordinances
shall be repealed within the Town, District, or Pro-
vince to which the said last-named Order relates :
And whereas it is desirable to suspend the operation
of the said seventeenth section of the said Act in the
District described in the Schedule hereto:

thirty-first day of December, to suspend the opera-
tion of the last preceding section of the said Act
within any Town, Province, or District within the
Colony, and at any time thereafter to revoke any
such Order in Council, and upon any such revoca-
tion the said Ordinances shall be repealed within the
Town, District, or Province to which the said last-
named Order relates: And whereas it is desirable to
suspend the operation of the said seventeenth section
of the said Act in the District described in the
Schedule hereto:
Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Forgu-
son Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Colany, in pursuance
and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested
in him by the said Act, doth hereby order and declare
that the operation of the said seventeenth section of
the said "Outlying Districts Sale of Spirits Act,
1870," shall be and the same is hereby suspended in
the District described in the Schedule hereto.
SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON.
This District is bounded towards the North by a
right line from the Porirua Ferry to the north-west
corner of section number 34, Takapu District; thence
along the northern boundary of the said section and
a line in continuation of the same to the summit of
the hills forming the watershed between Port
Nicholson and Porirua; thence towards the North-
west by the summit of the said hills to the Tararua
Range; thence towards the South-east by the summit
of the Tararua and Rimutaka Ranges to Cape Taura-
kirae; and thence towards the South and West by the
sea to the commencing point (Porirua Ferry); in-
cluding the Town of Wellington and other Towns,
and including the adjacent Islands.

WILLIAM FOX,
Presiding.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fergu-
son Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Colony, in pursuance
and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested
in him by the said Act, doth hereby order and declare
that the operation of the said seventeenth section of
the said "Outlying Districts Sale of Spirits Act,
1870," shall be and the same is hereby suspended in
the District described in the Schedule hereto.
SCHEDULE.
WAIRARAPA.
This District is bounded towards the North by
the southern boundary of Hawke's Bay from the
Manawatu Gorge to the sea; towards the East and
South by the sea to Cape Taurakirae; towards the
North-west by a line running in a north-easterly
direction from Taurakirae Head to and along the
Rimutaka and Tararua Mountains to the southern
boundary of the Province of Hawke's Bay (including
all Towns).

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

WILLIAM FOX,
Presiding.

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

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
thirty-first day of December, 1870.

Present:

THE HONORABLE WILLIAM FOX, PRIME MINISTER,
PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the seventeenth section of "The
Outlying Districts Sale of Spirits Act, 1870,"
it is enacted that the Ordinance of the Lieutenant-
Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand,
intituled "An Ordinance to prohibit the Sale &c.
of Spirits, and to regulate the Sale &c. of other
Intoxicating Liquors, to Persons of the Native
Race," Session VIII., Number 3, shall, except in
any such Town, District, or Province as may be in-
cluded in any such Order in Council as thereinafter
provided, be repealed on and from the thirty-first
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy: And whereas it is by the eighteenth section
of the said Act enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council, at any time before the said
thirty-first day of December, to suspend the opera-