910
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
of the colony as may be required for the purposes of
military defence, or for the construction of trunk
lines of road, or as sites for public buildings for the
use of the General Government, or for other pur-
poses of public utility or convenience:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, in exercise and pursuance of
the power and authority in that behalf vested in him,
doth hereby except from sale and reserve to Her
Majesty the parcel of the waste lands of the Crown
particularly specified and described in the Schedule
hereunder written, for the purpose in the said Schedule
mentioned, and set opposite the description of the
said parcel of land.

SCHEDULE.
PROVINCIAL DISTRICT OF WELLINGTON.

Description of Reserve.
Purpose of Reserve.

All that parcel of land being a width
of one and a half chains of land run-
ning along the eastern and south-
eastern and southern side of the Foxton
Manawatu Railway, from the point
where the northern boundary of the
Awa Hou Block (called the Township
of Foxton) crosses the railway line,
and extending northward and then
north-eastward and eastward to a point
where the western boundary of a Native
reserve for the Rangitane tribe abuts
on the road and railway line; being a
total distance in length of six miles
and sixteen chains, or thereabouts.

For the purpose of
the construction of a
line of railway from
Foxton to Manawatu,
authorized to be con-
structed by "The Rail-
ways Act, 1874."

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land reserved for a Site for a Telegraph Station.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Waste Lands Act, 1858," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council, at any time and from time to
time, to except from sale, and either reserve to Her
Majesty or dispose of in such other manner as for
the public interest may seem best, such of the waste
lands of the Crown in any of the provinces
of the colony as may be required for the purposes of
military defence, or for the construction of trunk
lines of road, or as sites for public buildings for the
use of the General Government, or for other pur-
poses of public utility or convenience:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, in exercise and pursuance of
the power and authority in that behalf vested in him,
doth hereby except from sale and reserve to Her
Majesty the parcel of the waste lands of the Crown
particularly specified and described in the Schedule
hereunder written, for the purpose in the said Schedule
mentioned, and set opposite the description of the
said parcel of land.

SCHEDULE.
PROVINCIAL DISTRICT OF NELSON.

Description of Reserve.
Purpose of Reserve.

All that parcel of land containing by For a site for Tele-
admeasurement four (4) acres, more graph Station.
or less, situate at Long Ford, in the
Upper Buller District, and being Sec-
tion No. 93 of Square No. 170.
Bounded towards the North by Crown
lands, 509 links; towards the East by
Gibbs' freehold, 800 links; towards
the South by road reserved along the
banks of the Buller River; and towards
the West by Crown lands, 800 links.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Meeting of Electors of the Third District, Provin-
cial District of Taranaki, appointed.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the forty-ninth section of an
Ordinance of the late Province of Taranaki
the short title whereof is "The Roads and Bridges
Ordinance, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Superintendent, by notice published in the
Government Gazette of the province, from time to
time (amongst other things) to alter the month in
which general meetings of the electors of any district
shall be held: Provided that no such last-mentioned
notice shall at any time be published without 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
done by 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 that 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 Warrant under the hand of His
Excellency the Governor, bearing date the twelfth
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six, the districts numbered respectively Third
and Tenth were constituted a single district for the
purposes of "The Roads and Bridges Ordinance,
1858," aforesaid, under the name of the Third
District:

And whereas it is necessary to appoint a time and
place for the first meeting of the electors of the said
Third 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 appoint the twenty-
third day of December instant, at noon, to be the
time of meeting of the electors of the said Third