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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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; 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 January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

CHARLES C. BOWEN..

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Negotiations for the purchase of Native Lands.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act Amendment Act, 1871," the Go-
vernor is, among other things, empowered to enter
into arrangements for the acquisition of particular
portions of land in the North Island, for the purpose
of mining for gold, for the establishment of special
settlements, or for the purposes of railway construc-
tion; and by the said Act it is also provided that it
shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever he shall
have determined to enter into negotiations for the
purchase of such land, to insert a notice in the New
Zealand Gazette that it is his intention to enter into
such negotiations, and after such notice is inserted
it shall not be lawful for any one to purchase or acquire
from the Native owners any right, title, or interest,
or contract for the purchase or acquisition from the
Native owners of any right, title, or interest, in the
lands specified in such notice, unless the notice be
cancelled by the Governor: Provided that no such
notice shall have longer operation than for the period
of two years:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the
hereinbefore in part recited Act, and in exercise of
the powers thereby vested in me, do hereby give notice
that it is my intention forthwith to enter into negotia-
tions for the purchase from the Native owners of the
block or parcel of land situate in the Province of
Auckland and described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that block or parcel of land in the Province of
Auckland, Colony of New Zealand, called or known
by the name of Tatarahake, containing twenty-one
acres and twenty-one perches (21A. 0R. 21P.) more or
less. Bounded on the West by the whole extent of
the eastern side of the township proper at Tologa;
on the North by a line from the north-eastern ex-
tremity of the township proper through Taumata
Kahawai to the sea; on the East by the sea from the
last-named point to a point near the mouth of the
Uawa River; on the South by a line from the last
point to the south-eastern extremity of the township
proper.

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 Depen-
dencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; at the Government House at Wellington,
this thirty-first day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

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 Depen-
dencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same;
at the Government House at Wellington,
this thirty-first day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.

DANIEL POLLEN.

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

NORMANBY, Governor.

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 Governor 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

FREDERICK HOBBS, Esq.,

the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough of
Christchurch, to be a Justice of the Peace under the
one hundred and thirty-third section of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1867."

Given under the hand of His Excellency
the Most Honorable George Augustus
Constantine, 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; Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and
its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of
the same; at the Government House at
Wellington, this thirty-first day of De-
cember, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.