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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

And whereas the Act hereinafter specified has
been enacted by the Superintendent of Taranaki, with
the advice and consent of the Provincial Council
thereof, and the said Act was received by the
Governor, on the twenty-sixth day of August, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Act
should be disallowed:

Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand,
in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that
behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do
hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the
following Act, passed. by the Superintendent and
Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki,
namely,-

"The Branding of Cattle Ordinance 1865
Amendment Ordinance, 1874."

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 fifth
day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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 fifth
day of September, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Disallowance of "The Auckland Supreme Court Site
Grant Empowering Act, 1874."

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in
the Imperial Parliament holden in the fifteenth
and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a
Representative Constitution to the Colony of New
Zealand," it is, amongst other things, enacted that
whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the
Superintendent, as in the said Act provided, the
Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the
Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be
lawful for the Governor, at any time within three
months after any such Bill shall have been received
by him, to declare by Proclamation his disallowance
of such Bill; and that any such disallowance shall
make void and annul the same from and after the
day of the date of such Proclamation, or any subse-
quent day to be named therein :

And whereas the Act hereinafter specified has
been enacted by the Superintendent of Auckland,
with the advice and consent of the Provincial
Council thereof, and the said Act was received by
the Governor on the first day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Act
should be disallowed:

Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand,
in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that
behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do
hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the
following Act, passed by the Superintendent and
Provincial Council of the Province of Auckland,
namely,-

"The Auckland Supreme Court Site Grant Em-
powering Act, 1874."

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifth day of September, 1874.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Wellington Special Settle-
ments Act, 1871," it is, among other things,
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintend-
ent of the Province of Wellington, with the advice of
his Executive Council, by Proclamation in the Govern-
ment Gazette of the said province, to set aside, out
of the waste lands within the Province of Wellington
the Native title of which has been extinguished, any
block or blocks for the purpose of special settlement,
not exceeding in the whole one hundred thousand
acres, on such terms as may be sanctioned by the
Governor in Council, anything in the existing regu-
lations for the management or disposal of the waste
lands in the province to the contrary notwithstanding:

And whereas the said Superintendent, with the
advice of his Executive Council as aforesaid, hath
proposed to set aside the block of land in the town-
ship of Carnarvon, in the Manawatu district, in the
said province, described in the First Schedule hereto,
containing twenty-one thousand eight hundred acres,
more or less, as a special settlement under the said
Act, for the members of an Association formed for
the purpose of draining and improving the said block
of land, and locating families of settlers thereon, and
which said Association is represented at present
by John Douglas, of Otago, Gentleman, upon the
terms hereinafter mentioned:

And whereas the said Superintendent, with the
advice of his Executive Council as aforesaid, hath
requested the Governor to sanction the said terms:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir James Fergus-
son, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power
and authority vested in him by the said Act, and
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said colony, doth hereby sanction the
terms set forth in the Second Schedule hereto as
the terms under which the said proposed special
settlement shall be made under the said Act.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land estimated to contain 22,000
acres, more or less, situated in the township of Car-
narvon, in the Manawatu district, bounded to-
wards the North by Sections Nos. 231, 232, 238,
244, 245, 257, 258, 259, 260, 296, 295, and 292; and
by the abutments of the public roads between Sec-
tions Nos. 238 and 244, and between Sections
Nos: 245 and 257, 32,327 links; by Section No. 304
and by the abutment of a public road, 3,673 links;
by the Awahuri Native Reserve, 13,407 links; by
Section No. 297, 2,520 links; by Section No. 345,
850 links; by Section No. 344, 600 links; by Section
No. 343, 1,650 links; by Section No, 342, 250 links;
by Section No. 340, 3,245 links; by Section No. 338,