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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Districts under "The Registration Act, 1858."

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor at any time, by Proclamation in the New
Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony of New Zealand,
for the purposes of the said Act, into such so
many districts as he may think fit, and that every
such district shall be called by a distinct name, and
shall be a Registrar's District; and it is provided
that the Governor may at any time revoke the whole
or any part of such Proclamation, and issue a new
Proclamation dividing the Colony or any part of it
anew into districts, or increasing the number or
altering the boundaries of districts, as from time to
time he may think requisite:

And whereas by a Proclamation duly made and
issued, bearing date the sixth day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, the Governor,
in pursuance of the said recited power and authority,
did, amongst others, constitute a district for the pur-
poses of the said Act, called the "Stewart's Island
District," the boundaries whereof were therein set
forth, which said Proclamation came into operation
and took effect on the first day of October, one thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty-nine:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of
the said Proclamation as relates to the said district,
and to divide anew the territory formerly comprised
within such district:

Now therefore, I, the Right Honorable Sir James
Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the said Colony,
in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me by the said recited Act, do hereby
revoke the said Proclamation so far as relates to
the "Stewart's Island District," and do proclaim
and declare that the territory formerly comprised
within such district shall be and is hereby divided,
for the purposes of the said Act, into two districts,
the names and boundaries whereof shall be as
follows:-

RUAPUKE DISTRICT.
The Island of Ruapuke.

STEWART'S ISLAND DISTRICT.
Stewart's Island, Sclanders' Island, and adjacent
Islands, excepting the Island of Ruapuke.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall
come into operation and take effect on the eighth
day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, 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 under the Seal of the
said Colony, at Wellington, this twelfth
day of March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Lands withdrawn from Reservation.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-fifth day of February, 1874.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

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 under the
hereinbefore in part recited powers, the Governor in
Council did, on the eleventh day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one, make and issue
certain regulations for the sale and disposal of con-
fiscated lands as therein provided: And whereas
the said regulations provide for the making of
reserves of such lands for the purposes therein
specified, and it is provided that the purposes for
which any reserves have been made may be changed,
or the reservation of the same withdrawn by the
Government, but so that no change or withdrawal
shall be made except after notice of three months in
the New Zealand Gazette, and by special order of the
Governor in Council: And whereas the several
parcels of land hereinafter particularly mentioned
have been reserved and set apart under regulations
made under the authority of the said in part recited
Acts, and it is expedient that they should cease to be
reserves: And whereas in accordance with the said
Regulations of the eleventh day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, three
months' notice of the intention of the Government to
withdraw the same has been duly given in the New
Zealand Gazette:

Now therefore, His Excellency, in pursuance and
exercise of the power and authority vested in him in
that behalf, doth hereby, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the Colony of New