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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

do hereby fix and appoint that sittings of the District
Court of Westland and Westland North, for the
despatch of Civil and Criminal Business, shall be
held as follows:-

In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Ahaura,
on the second day of the said months of
November, January, March, May, July, and
September, respectively.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court House at
Reefton, on the fifth day of the months of
November, January, March, May, July, and
September, respectively.

Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as
aforesaid shall happen to be a Sunday or holiday,
then the Court appointed for that day shall be holden
on the first day thereafter, not being a holiday.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this thirtieth day of September,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.

HENRY SEWELL.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The New Zealand
Institute Act, 1867," it is enacted that on and after
the passing of the said Act, and until the first day of
November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight, the Governor for the time being of the said
Colony, the Colonial Secretary for the time being of
the said Colony, and the Superintendent for the
time being of the Province of Wellington, and six
other persons to be appointed after the passing of
the said Act by the Governor, shall be a Board of
Governors of an institution which shall be called
"The New Zealand Institute," and that they and
their successors, and the members for the time being
of all and every Society or Societies thereafter to be
incorporated with the said Institute for so long time
and such time as such several Societies shall remain
and continue to be incorporated with the said Insti-
tute, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be,
one body corporate in deed, name, and law, by the
name of "The New Zealand Institute," and that by
the same name they shall have perpetual succession
and a common seal, and shall and may sue and be
sued, plead or be impleaded, grant or receive, and
shall have power and authority to take and purchase
and hold lands, tenements, and hereditaments, to
them, their successors and assigns, for the purposes
in the said Act after mentioned:

Now know ye that I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance of the power and authority in me vested by
the said recited Act, do hereby appoint

THE HON. GEO. MARSDEN WATERHOUSE, M.L.C.,
to be a Governor of the New Zealand Institute.

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 Government
House, at Wellington, this second day of
October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

NOTICE.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Settlements
Act, 1863," it is provided that, after setting
apart sufficient land for all persons who shall be
entitled thereto under the contracts therein referred
to, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to
cause towns to be surveyed and laid out, and also
suburban and rural allotments; and that all such
town, suburban, and rural lands shall be sold, occu-
pied, and disposed of for such prices, in such manner,
and for such purposes, upon such terms, and subject
to such regulations, as the Governor in Council shall
from time to time prescribe for that purpose:

And whereas by "The New Zealand Settlements
Amendment and Continuance Act, 1865," it is
enacted that the order and manner in which land
taken under the authority of "The New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863," and "The New Zealand
Settlements Amendment and Continuance Act, 1865,"
should be laid out for sale and sold, should be at the
discretion of the Governor, who shall have power to
cause such land, or any part thereof, to be laid out
for sale and sold from time to time, in such manner,
for such consideration, and in such allotments as he
shall think fit, and subject to such regulations as he
shall, with the advice of the Executive Council,
from time to time prescribe: And whereas
by "The New Zealand Settlements Amendment
Act, 1866," it is provided that the said lands
shall be sold for such consideration or at such
price, and whether for cash or otherwise, as the
Governor shall from time to time prescribe, and that
all lands taken under the authority of the said "New
Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and "The New
Zealand Settlements Amendment and Continuance
Act, 1865," or either of them, and sold or disposed of
under the authority of the said first-recited Act,
shall be sold or disposed of under regulations to be
made by the Governor in Council, which regulations
shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette: And
whereas His Excellency the Governor, in exercise of
all powers and authorities vested in him in that
behalf, did, on the eleventh day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
make the regulations therein set forth for the sale
and disposal of the said lands taken under the said
Acts, or either or any of them:

And whereas by notice by Robert Pharazyn, Com-
missioner of Confiscated Lands, made and given
under the said Regulations, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-fifth day of
September last, it was notified that certain lands
in the Schedule thereto would be offered
for sale by public auction on the seventh day of
November next:

And whereas it is expedient that the said sale by
public auction of the lands described in the said
notice shall not take place:

It is hereby notified that all the said lands de-
scribed in the Schedule to the said notice have been
and are hereby withdrawn from sale, and the same
will not be open for sale by auction under the said
notice.

Signed the first day of October, 1872.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1872.

THE following Despatch, with Enclosure, from
the Hon. the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, is published for general information.

HENRY SEWELL.