THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
879

Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council;
Knight Commander of the Most Dis-
tinguished 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.

Fixing duration of Office of present Chancellor and
Vice-Chancellor of New Zealand University.

NORMANDY,
Administrator of the Government.

IN
pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority vested in me by the provisions of
"The New Zealand University Act, 1874," I, George
Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the
Administrator of the Government of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby determine that the persons
who immediately before the coming into operation
of the said Act were respectively the Chancellor and
Vice-Chancellor of the University created by "The
New Zealand University Act, 1870," shall be and
remain the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor respect-
ively of the University created by the said first-
mentioned Act until the third day of March now
next.

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 Mul-
grave of New Ross, in the County of
Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a
Member of Her Majesty's Most Honor-
able Privy Council; Knight Commander
of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George; Administra-
tor of the Government in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and
its Dependencies; and issued at the
Government House at Wellington, this
twenty-third day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land reserved for public purposes in Province of
Westland.

NORMANDY,
Administrator of the Government.

IN
pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in me vested in this behalf by the
regulations for the sale and disposal of waste lands
in the Province of Westland, I hereby reserve the
lands in the said Province of Westland, the bound-
aries whereof are described in the Schedule hereunto
annexed for the uses of the Colonial Government
and other public purposes, as in the said Schedule.is
more particularly specified.

SCHEDULE.

RESERVE No. 49, containing one acre three roods
and two perches, more or less, situate in the Town
of Greymouth, bounded on the North-eastward by

Marlborough Street, four hundred and thirty links;
on the South-eastward by High Street, eight hundred
and twenty links; and on the Westward by road
and railway reserve, nine hundred and twenty-five
links
for Hospital purposes.

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 Coun-
cil; 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 Wellington, this twenty-ninth
day of December, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Fixing Sittings of District Court, Otago Gold Fields.

NORMANBY,
Administrator of the Government.

IN
pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in this behalf enabling me, I, George
Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the
Administrator of the Government of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that sittings
of the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields, during
the months of February and March next, shall be
held as follows :-

In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Naseby
on the second Wednesday in February next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Clyde on
the Monday next after the second Wednesday
in February next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Queens-
town on the Monday second after the second
Wednesday in February next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Lawrence
on the second Tuesday in March next.

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

Issued this twenty-first day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Despatches from the Secretary of State.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1874.

THE following despatches from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies
are published for general information.

[CIRCULAR.]

Downing Street, 10th September, 1874.
SIR, -In consequence of an application made to this
office by a gentleman naturalized in 1873 in this
country, to be allowed the rights and privileges of a
British subject in Gibraltar, the opinion of the Law
Officers of the Crown has been taken as to whether
Certificates of Naturalization granted in the United
Kingdom extend to the colonies.