THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 865

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 the
Government House, at Wellington, this
thirteenth day of December, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-six.
DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Authorizing Sale of Hospital Reserve in Westland.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twelfth day of December, 1876.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Westland Waste Lands Act,
1870," it is, among other things, enacted that
reserves heretofore or hereafter to be made of waste
lands shall be managed and administered by the
Governor in Council: And it is also enacted that
the specified purposes for which any reserves shall
be held may be changed, and any such reserves may
be leased, mortgaged, or sold, either in whole or in
part, by the Governor in Council, as therein men-
tioned:

And whereas the parcel of land described in the
Schedule hereto was, on the date and in the manner
therein mentioned, declared to be a reserve for the
purpose therein set forth, and such reserve is now
subject to the provisions of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient that such reserve
should be sold:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exer-
cise of the power and authority vested in him by the
hereinbefore in part recited Act, and by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said Colony, doth hereby order that the parcel
of land so reserved as aforesaid, and as the same is
described in the Schedule hereto, shall be sold, and
that the time, place, and conditions of such sale shall
be fixed by the Waste Lands Board of the Provincial
District of Westland, and shall be published in the
New Zealand Gazette at least two calendar months
before such sale shall take place.

SCHEDULE.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rehearing of Native Land Claim.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twelfth day of December, 1876.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the fifty-eighth section of "The
Native Land Act, 1873," (hereinafter referred
to as "the said Act,") it is enacted that, upon the
application of any persons interested in any Native
land who may feel themselves aggrieved by the de-
cision of the Native Land Court in respect thereof,
the Governor in Council may order a rehearing of
any matter heard and decided under the provisions
of the said Act, within such a period of time from
the publication of the decision and memorial of
ownership, in manner in the said Act required, as
may be limited in such order; and upon such order
being made, all proceedings theretofore taken by the
Court in such matter shall be annulled, and the case
shall commence de novo, and shall proceed in manner
provided by the said Act: Provided that no appli-
cation for a rehearing shall be entertained if it be
made after six months shall have elapsed from the
time of such publication:

And whereas by the eighth section of "The Native
Land Act Amendment Act, 1874," (hereinafter
referred to as "the said Amendment Act,") it is
enacted that in any case where an application for a
rehearing of any matter heard and decided under
"The Native Lands Act, 1865," and the Acts amend-
ing the same, shall have been made subsequently to
the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three, the Governor in Council may, in
the manner provided by the fifty-eighth section of the
said Act, order a rehearing of any such matter so
heard and decided as aforesaid, and all the provisions
of the said Act respecting rehearings, so far as appli-
cable, shall extend to any rehearing under the said
Amendment Act: Provided that such application
shall in each case have been made within six months
from the date of the decision of the Court in such
case:

And whereas at a sitting of the Native Land Court
of New Zealand, at Carlyle, Patea, in the District of
Taranaki, in the Province of Taranaki, on the eighth
day of November, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five, the claim of Mangu and others, abori-
ginal natives of New Zealand, to a piece of land
called Mangaotuku, situate near Patea, in the said
district, was heard and decided, and a certain order
was thereupon made by the said Court:

And whereas on or about the twenty-third day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six, an application was made to the said Court, by
and on behalf of certain aboriginal natives claiming
to have an interest in the said land, for a rehearing
of the said claim, and it is expedient that the said
claim should be reheard before the said Court:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of the above-recited power,
and by and with the advice and consent of the Exe-
cutive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby order
and direct that the said claim of Mangu and others
to the piece of land aforesaid shall be reheard as
and in the manner provided by "The Native Land
Act, 1873;" and doth also order that such rehear-
ing shall take place within two years from the said
eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.