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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1872.

(L.S.) G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Oyster Fisheries Act, 1866,"
it is, amongst other things, enacted that the
Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation
in the New Zealand Gazette, declare any natural
oyster-bed to be closed against dredging for any
period to be stated in such Proclamation :

And whereas it is expedient that the natural
oyster-beds at Port Adventure, in Stewart Island,
should be temporarily closed :

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
and pursuance of the power and authority in me
vested by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the natural oyster-beds at Port Adven-
ture, in Stewart Island, shall be closed against
dredging for a period of two years, from the twenty-
second day of July, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-two.

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 the Govern-
ment House, at Wellington; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, this
twenty-second day of July, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-two.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-fourth day of July, 1872.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it
is, amongst other things, enacted that it shall

be lawful for the Governor, ¹y Order in Council,
from time to time to constitute for any Gold Field
or for any part thereof, Wardens' Courts, for the
administration of justice therein, and to appoint
Wardens of such Courts, with power to act alone or
with assessors, and in such manner, and to exercise
all or any of the powers thereinafter mentioned, as
the Governor shall think fit to direct:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, doth hereby, in pursuance
and exercise of the power and authority vested in
him for this purpose, appoint

HENRY ALDBOROUGH STRATFORD, Esq.,

to be a Warden of all Wardens' Courts now consti-
tuted or hereafter to be constituted within the Gold
Fields of the Province of Otago, with power to him
to act alone or with assessors, and to exercise all
or any of the powers vested in or imposed on Judges
of Wardens' Courts.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-fourth day of July, 1872.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Native
Reserves Amendment Act, 1862," it is, amongst
other things, provided that where, under the pro-
visions of "The Native Reserves Act, 1856," the
assent of the aboriginal inhabitants is required to
bringing land under the operation of the said
"Native Reserves Act, 1856," the Governor may, by
Order in Council, declare such assent to have been
ascertained, and thereupon the title of the aboriginal
inhabitants in the land to which the same shall
relate shall be deemed to be extinguished, and the
land shall from the date of such Order in Council vest
in Her Majesty for the purposes and subject to the
provisions of the said "Native Reserves Act, 1856," as