604
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
fifteenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.
EDWARD RICHARDSON.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Copper Coinage decried.

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the coinage of the United
Kingdom in circulation therein has been de-
cried since the thirty-first day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine: And whereas,
it having been considered expedient that the copper
coinage in circulation in those colonies using the
Imperial coinage should be decried in each such
colony, instructions have been given to me by the
Right Honorable the Earl of Carnarvon, Her
Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, to
issue a Proclamation decrying the copper coinage in
circulation in the Colony of New Zealand as and in
manner hereinafter set forth:

Governor in Council, at any time and from time to
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
military 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 Governor, 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 des-
cription of the said parcel of land.

SCHEDULE.

Description of Reserve.

PROVINCE OF OTAGO.

All that piece or parcel of land situated
at and near Puysegur Point, Preservation
Inlet; bounded towards the East by a
straight line commencing at a point at high
watermark on the beach in Otago Retreat,
the said point being distant fifty chains in
a straight line from the Trig. Station on Coal
Point, and running two miles on a south
(true) bearing; towards the North-east by
a straight line (taken from the southern
extremity of the said line two miles long)
on a South 40° East (true) bearing to
high watermark on the sea coast; towards
the South, West, and North by high water-
mark on the sea coast round Windsor,
Puysegur, and Coal Points, back to the
Point aforesaid on the beach in Otago
Retreat.

Purpose of
Reserve.
Site for a Light-
house, and other
purposes connect-
ed therewith.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice to Superintendent of Site reserved for a
Lighthouse.

NORMANBY, Governor.
TO JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of
the Province of Otago.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the parcel of waste
lands of the Crown particularly specified and
described in the Schedule hereunder written is re-
quired for the purposes mentioned and set opposite
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 mentioned in the second
column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

FIRST COLUMN.
Description of Land.
Purpose for
which Reserve
is made.
SECOND
COLUMN.
Date of Order
in Council
excepting Land
from Sale.
All that piece or parcel of land
situated at and near Puyse-
gur Point, Preservation Inlet;
bounded towards the East by a
straight line commencing at a
point at high watermark on the

Site fora Light- Sept. 15, 1875
house and other
purposes con-
nected there-
with.

Now therefore I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in compliance with the instructions
given to me as aforesaid, and in pursuance and
exercise of every power and authority enabling me
in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that
from and after the thirty-first day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, the copper
coin of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland then in circulation within the Colony of
New Zealand shall be and the same is hereby called
in and decried, and, from and after the date so fixed
as last aforesaid, shall be and is hereby declared to
be no longer current within the said colony.

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; Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depend-
encies, and Vice-Admiral of the same;
and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of
August, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
H. A. ATKINSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Reserve for a Site for Lighthouse.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifteenth day of September, 1875.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W
HEREAS by "The Waste Lands Act, 1858,"
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the