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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

centre line of the Leviathan Water Race and having
a total length of about 8 miles 14 chains, more or
less.
The whole of the above-described piece or parcel
of land being situated north of the Kawhaka Creek,
in the Province of Westland.

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 Commander-
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-first day of
August, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

"Lithofracteur" declared to be specially dangerous
within the meaning of “The Dangerous Goods Act,
1869."

NORMANDY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-second day of August, 1876.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the fourth section of "The Dan-
gerous Goods Act, 1869," it is, amongst other
things, enacted that the Governor may from time to time,
by an Order in Council, declare that any goods named
in such Order other than nitro-glycerine or glonoine
oil are to be deemed specially dangerous within the
meaning of the now reciting Act; and any goods
which by such Order declared to be specially
dangerous shall, so long as such Order is in force,
be deemed to be specially dangerous within the
meaning of the now reciting Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony, in exercise and in
pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in
him by the said Act, doth hereby declare that from
and after the twenty-fourth day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and until
this Order is revoked, the material known as "litho-
fraccteur" shall be deemed to be specially dangerous
within the meaning of "The Dangerous Goods Act,
1869."

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

District of Waimate to be an Agricultural District.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
NORMANDY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-second day of August, 1876.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority vested in him by the twenty-seventh
section of "The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875,"
His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, by and with the advice of the Executive
Council thereof, doth hereby give his consent to the
attached Proclamation.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

A PROCLAMATION

By His Honor the Superintendent of the Province
of Canterbury, declaring an agricultural dis-
trict under "The Canterbury Trespass of
Cattle Ordinance, 1872.".

IN exercise of the power conferred upon the Super-
intendent of the Province of Canterbury by
"The Canterbury Trespass of Cattle Ordinance,
1872," and of every other power and authority
enabling him in that behalf, the said Superintendent,
with the consent of His Excellency the Governor
and Executive Council of the Colony of New Zea-
land, and with the advice and consent of the Ex-
ecutive Council of the Province of Canterbury, doth
hereby proclaim and declare that all that portion of
the said Province of Canterbury bounded on the
North by the Levels District, the River Pareora to
its westernmost source, and an east and west line
from thence to the River Hakateramea, on the East
by the sea, and on the South by the Province of
Otago, and on the West by the said River Haka-
teramea, shall, from and after the publication of this
Proclamation in the New Zealand Government
Gazette, and the New Zealand Government Gazette
of the said Province of Canterbury, be deemed to be
and be an agricultural district within the meaning
of "The Canterbury Trespass of Cattle Ordinance
1872."

Given under the hand of the Superintendent
of the Province of Canterbury, this ninth
day of August, 1876.

R. J. S. HARMAN,
Deputy Superintendent.

Appointing Mayor of Hokitika 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

MCLEAN WATT JACK, Esq.,