66 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

"The Lunatics Act, 1868," within the County of
Westland, shall be exercised by the Chairman of the
Council of the said County.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-seventh day of January, 1871.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Tauranga District Lands
Act, 1867," and "The Tauranga District
Lands Act, 1868," after reciting that by an Order
in Council made the eighteenth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and therein
referred to as a Proclamation, it was declared that all
the lands of the tribe Ngaiterangi, described in the
Schedule to the now reciting Acts, should be a
district within the provisions of "The New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863," and should be designated by
the name "Tauranga District," therein mentioned or
referred to, and it was declared that the said lands
were required for the purposes of "The New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863," aforesaid, and ordered that
the said lands should be and were thereby set apart
as sites for settlement and colonization, agreeably to
the provisions of the said Act, and that it was
expressed to be ordered that, in accordance with the
promise made by His Excellency the Governor at
Tauranga, on the sixth day of August, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four, three-fourths in quan-
tity of the said lands should be set apart for such
persons of the tribe Ngaiterangi as should be de-
termined by the Governor after due inquiry should
have been made; it is enacted and declared, amongst
other things, that the whole of the lands specified in
the Schedule to the Act now in recital were, by the
said Order in Council, duly and effectually declared
to be a district within the provisions of "The New
Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and that the whole
of the said land was duly and effectually set apart,
reserved, and taken under the said Act as sites for
settlements for colonization, and was duly and effec-
tually declared to be required for the purposes of the
said "New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and to
be subject to the provisions thereof, and that, for the
purposes of the Act now in recital, the words "due
inquiry" in the said Order in Council should be
deemed and taken to extend to inquiries made and
carried through by persons thereunto appointed by
the Governor: And whereas by "The Commissioners
Powers Act, 1867," provision is made for enabling
Boards or Commissions, appointed by the Governor
in Council, to examine witnesses on oath, to require
the production of books, papers, writings, deeds, and
other documents, and to exercise the powers and
authorities in the said last-named Act mentioned:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and in
exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me
as aforesaid, do hereby, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the Colony, appoint

HENRY TACY CLARKE,
of Auckland, Esquire, to be a Commissioner to make
the inquiry required by the said Order in Council,
and by "The Tauranga District Lands Act, 1867,"
and "The Tauranga District Lands Act, 1868," for
the purpose of determining for what persons of the
tribe Ngaiterangi three-fourths in quantity of the
lands in the said Order in Council and in the Acts
last aforesaid shall be set apart, in pursuance of the

said Order in Council and "The Tauranga District
Lands Act, 1867," with all the powers and autho-
rities by "The Commissioners Powers Act, 1867,"
provided in the case of any Board or Commission
appointed or issued, or to be appointed or issued, by
the Governor in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough, as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough, to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election, and of the person
elected; and it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he
shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be a
Justice of the Peace, by warrant under his hand
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony; and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is made
under the one hundred and thirty-third section of
the said Act; and it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during
the Mayoralty of such person, and the person so
appointed shall not, by virtue of such appointment,
be authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the said power and
authority in me vested in this behalf, do hereby
appoint

HENRY DODSON, Esq.,
the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough of
Blenheim, to be a Justice of the Peace under the one
hundred and thirty-third section of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1867."

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

W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL..

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-seventh day of January, 1871.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council bearing date
the second day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine, William Gilbert Mair,
of Opotiki, Esquire, was appointed a Commissioner
to make a certain inquiry, and with certain powers
in the said Order in Council mentioned: And
whereas it is expedient that the appointment of the
said William Gilbert Mair should be revoked:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and exer-
cise of all powers enabling me in that behalf, do
hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, revoke the said recited Order