THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 877

time, to except from sale, and either reserve to Her
Majesty or dispose of in such other manner as for
the public interest may seem best, such of the waste
lands of the Crown in any of the provinces of the
colony as may be required for the purposes of mili-
tary defence, or for the construction of trunk lines
of road, or as sites for public buildings for the use of
the General Government, or for other purposes of
public utility or convenience:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government, by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the colony, in
exercise and pursuance of the power and authority
in that behalf vested in him, doth hereby except from
sale and reserve to Her Majesty the parcel of the
waste lands of the Crown particularly specified and
described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the
purposes in the said Schedule mentioned, and set
opposite the description of the said parcel of land.

SCHEDULE.

Description of Reserve. Purpose of Reserve.

PROVINCE OF HAWKE'S BAY.
Town of Porangahau.
All that parcel of land containing one
rood, more or less, being portion of Section
No. 214. Bounded towards the North by
Section No. 177, one hundred links; towards
the East by Abercromby Street, two hundred
and fifty links; towards the South by a
public road, one hundred links; and towards
the West by other portion of Section No.
214, two hundred and fifty links.
Site for Tele-
graph Station, or
other purposes of
the General Go-
vernment.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land reserved for a Site for a Telegraph Station.

NORMANDY,
Administrator of the Government.

TO JOHN DAVIES ORMOND, Esquire, Superintendent
of the Province of Hawke's Bay.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the parcel of waste
lands of the Crown particularly specified and
described in the Schedule hereunder written is
required for the purposes mentioned and set oppo-
site to the description of the said parcel of
land in the said Schedule; and that the same has
been excepted from sale and reserved to Her Majesty
by the Order in Council bearing the date men-
tioned in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

FIRST COLUMN. SECOND
COLUMN.
Description of Land. Purpose for
which Reserve
is made.
Date of Order
in Council
excepting Land
from Sale.

TOWN OF PORANGAHAU.
All that parcel of land con-
taining one rood, more or less,
being portion of Section No.
214. Bounded towards the
North by Section No. 177, one
hundred links; towards the
East by Abercromby Street, two
hundred and fifty links; towards
the South by a public road, one
hundred links; and towards the
West by other portion of Sec-
tion No. 214, two hundred and
fifty links.
Site for a Tele-
graph Station
or other pur-
poses of the
General Go-
vernment.
29th Decem-
ber, 1874.

Appointing a Justice of the Peace under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

NORMANBY,
Administrator of the Government.

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 ap-
pointed 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, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Administrator of the
Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the said power and
authority in me vested in that behalf, do hereby
appoint

EDWARD GEORGE KERR, Esq.,
the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough
of Kaiapoi, to be a Justice of the Peace under
the one hundred and thirty-third section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George; Administrator of the
Government in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depend-
encies; at the Government House at
Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of
December, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Appointing a Justice of the Peace under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

NORMANBY,
Administrator of the Government.

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