THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 869

Appointing Mere Karaka and Areta te Apatu Trus-
tees under "The Maori Real Estate Management
Act, 1867."

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 Maori Real Estate Manage-
ment Act, 1867," it is enacted that if any
title to or interest in any hereditaments shall accrue
to any Maoris, who or any of whom shall be infants,
lunatics, or under legal disability, it shall be lawful
for the Governor in Council, if he think fit, to order
that such hereditaments, or any part thereof or
interest therein as shall to the Governor in Council
be shown to belong to such infant, lunatic, or other
person under legal disability, shall be vested in
trustees, as the Governor in Council shall think fit:

And whereas by virtue of a Crown grant bearing
date the twenty-second day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, the parcel of
land and hereditaments described in the Schedule
hereto became vested in Pitihera Kopu, of the Dis-
trict of Te Wairoa, in the Province of Hawke's Bay,
aboriginal native of New Zealand:

And whereas the said Pitihera Kopu died intestate:

And whereas at a sitting of the Native Land Court,
held at Te Wairoa, in the Province aforesaid, on the
twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five, Hiri Kopu, Mere Karaka,
Eraiha Kopu, and Katerina Kopu claimed to suc-
ceed to the interest and share of the said Pitihera
Kopu in the parcel of land described in the said
Schedule:

And it was ordered by the said Court that Raiha
Kopu, Katerina Kopu, Hiria Kopu, and Itiria Kopu
(an infant under the age of twenty-one years) should
succeed to the interest and share of the said Pitihera
Kopu in the hereditaments aforesaid:

And it is expedient that Mere Karaka and Areta
te Apatu be appointed trustees under the said Act
on behalf of the said Itiria Kopu:

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 order that the interest
and share of the said Itiria Kopu in the land described
in the Schedule hereto shall be and remain vested in
the said

MERE KARAKA and
ARETA TE APATU,

as Trustees, within the meaning and for the purposes
of the said Act, for the said Itiria Kopu during her
minority.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land at Te Wairoa, in the Dis-
trict of Te Wairoa, in the Province of Hawke's Bay,
containing two roods, more or less, and being Sections
four hundred and two and four hundred and four, in
the Township of Clyde.

Section No. 402—Bounded towards the North by
Marine Parade, 100 links; towards the East by
Section No. 403, 250 links; towards the South by
Section No. 362, 100 links; and towards the West
by Section No. 401, 250 links.

Section No. 404—Bounded towards the North by
Marine Parade, 100 links; towards the East by Paul

Street, 250 links; towards the South by Section
No. 360, 100 links; and towards the West by Section
No. 403, 250 links.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land withdrawn from Reservation.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
eighth day of December, 1876.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS under the powers vested in him by
"The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1868,"
and the several Acts amending the same, the
Governor in Council did, on the eleventh day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, make
and issue certain Regulations for the sale and dis-
posal of confiscated lands as therein provided:

And whereas the said Regulations provide for the
making of reserves of such lands for the purposes
therein specified, and it is provided that the purposes
for which any reserves have been made may be
changed or the reservation of the same withdrawn
by the Government, but so that no change or with-
drawal shall be made except after notice of three
months in the New Zealand Gazette, and by special
order of the Governor in Council:

And whereas the said parcels of land hereinafter
particularly mentioned have been reserved and set
apart under such last-mentioned Regulations, and it
is expedient that they should cease to be reserves:

And whereas, in accordance with the said Regula-
tions of the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, three months' notice of the
intention of the Government to withdraw the same
has been duly given in the New Zealand Gazette :

Now, therefore, His Excellency, in pursuance and
exercise of the power and authority vested in him in
that behalf, doth hereby, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zea-
land, order and declare that the parcels of land
mentioned and described in the Schedule hereto shall
be, and the same are hereby withdrawn from reserva-
tion as aforesaid, and the same have ceased to be
reserves for the purpose in the said Schedule men-
tioned, or for any other purpose whatsoever.

SCHEDULE.

Number and Description of Lot. Purpose.

PROVINCIAL DISTRICT OF WELLINGTON.
Sections numbered 135 and 136 of the Educational and
Town of Waverley, containing one acre religious purposes.
each.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Delegation of certain of the Governor's Powers under
"The Gold Mining Districts Act, 1873," to the
Hon. Frederick Whitaker.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and ninetieth
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand intituled "The Gold Mining Districts
Act, 1873," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council, under his hand and the
Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time to dele-
gate all or any of the powers vested in the Governor
by the Act now in recital, except the powers con-