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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
title whereof is "The Roads and Bridges Ordinance,
1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Superintendent, from time to time, after the passing
of this Ordinance, by notice published in the Govern-
ment Gazette of the province, to constitute districts
within which the provisions of this Ordinance shall
be in force, and in like manner to extend, contract, or
alter the boundaries of any such districts, and to
revoke the notice by which any such districts shall
have been constituted: Provided that no such
notice shall at any time be published without the
previous approval of the Provincial Council expressed
by a resolution of the said Council:

And whereas by the seventh section of "The
Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," it is enacted that
all powers, duties, and functions which, immediately
before the date of the abolition thereunder of any
province were, under or by virtue of any law not
expressly or impliedly repealed or altered hereby,
vested in or to be exercised or performed by the
Superintendent of such abolished province, either
alone or with the advice and consent of, or on the
recommendation of, the Executive or Provincial
Council of such province, or which by virtue of "The
Public Reserves Act, 1854," or any Act amending
the same, or by virtue of any Waste Lands Act or
any regulations made thereunder, or otherwise how
soever, would, but for this Act, have been exercised
only under an Ordinance of such abolished province,
shall on the day of the date of the abolition of such
province, and for the purposes of the district included
within such abolished province, vest in and be exer-
cised and performed by the Governor:

And whereas by a notification bearing date the
sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-eight, published in the Taranaki Provincial
Gazette, the districts numbered third and tenth were
constituted districts for the purposes of "The Roads
and Bridges Ordinance, 1858: "

And whereas it is expedient that the before-men-
tioned districts should be united into one district:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in me by the said in part
recited Acts, do hereby revoke so much of the noti-
fication of the sixth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-eight, as relates to the constitution
of districts numbered third and tenth, and do hereby
notify and declare that the territory formerly com-
prised in such last-mentioned districts is hereby con-
stituted a single district for the purposes of "The
Roads and Bridges Ordinance, 1858," under the
name of the "Third District."

As witness the hand of His Excellency, this
twelfth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Governors of Nelson College appointed.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Nelson College Act, 1870,"
it is enacted that six of the Governors of the
said College shall be deemed to represent the Pro-
vince of Nelson, and shall be from time to time
appointed as vacancies shall occur, by the Visitor,
and the remaining three Governors shall be deemed
to represent the Province of Marlborough, and shall
be appointed in like manner: And by the said Act
it is further enacted, that any retiring Governor may
continue to hold office until his successor is appointed,
and may be reappointed: And whereas, in pursuance
of the provisions of the Deed of Foundation of the
Nelson College, as set forth in the Schedule to "The
Nelson College Act, 1858," and of the hereinbefore
in part recited Act, Arthur Penrose Seymour, Esq.,
representing the Provincial District of Marlborough,
John Sharp, Esq., and Charles Yates Fell, Esq., respec-
tively representing the Provincial District of Nelson,
retired from office as Governors of the said College
on the fourteenth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six, and no successors
to them have been appointed: And whereas it is
expedient that the said

ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR, Esq.,
JOHN SHARP, Esq., and
CHARLES YATES FELL, Esq.,

should be appointed to be Governors of the said
College as hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies for the time being, as
the Visitor of the said College, and in pursuance and
exercise of the power vested in me as such Visitor
by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, do hereby
appoint the said

ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR, Esq.,
JOHN SHARP, Esq., and
CHARLES YATES FELL, Esq.,

to be Governors of the said Nelson College, the said
Arthur Penrose Seymour, Esq., to represent the
Provincial District of Marlborough, and the said
John Sharp, Esq., and Charles Yates Fell, Esq., to
represent the Provincial District of Nelson.

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 thirteenth day of
December, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-six.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Resignation of Native Minister accepted.

Private Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th December, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
The Hon. Sir DONALD MCLEAN, K.C.M.G.,
of the office of Native Minister.

By command.

IRWIN C. MALING, 35th Regt.,
Private Secretary.