Numb. 45.

SOIT QUI MAT
PENS
DEEU ET AS MON DROIT

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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1877.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1877.

Levee at Government House.

Government House,
Wellington, 17th May, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor will hold a Levee
at Government House, on Thursday, the 24th
instant, at 12 noon, in honour of Her Majesty's
Birthday. Gentlemen attending the Levee will wear
official dress, uniform, or evening costume, and are
requested to provide themselves with two cards, with
their names legibly written thereon; one card to be
left on the table at the entrance door, and the other
to be given to the Aide-de-camp.

By command.
F. LE PATOUREL,
Aide-de-camp.

Confiscated Lands in the Land District of Taranaki
declared to be Waste Lands of the Crown.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of "The Waste
Lands Administration Act, 1876," it is enacted
that the Governor may from time to time, by Pro-
clamation in the New Zealand Gazette, proclaim the
confiscated lands within any land district to be waste
lands of the Crown: And whereas the lands de-
scribed in the Schedule hereto are confiscated lands
within the Land District of Taranaki, and it is expe-
dient that such lands should be proclaimed waste
lands of the Crown:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power
and authority vested in me by the said fourteenth
section, do hereby proclaim and declare the lands
described in the Schedule hereto to be waste lands
of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land containing thirty-six thou-
sand (36,000) acres, more or less, situate in the Dis-
trict of Urenui, in the County of Taranaki, and called
or known as Onaero-Urenui-Taramouku. Bounded
as follows:-Commencing at Onaero at the mouth
of the Mangapo Stream, following the course of the
Onaero River to Mangotiti, to Pukemai, to Pouri, to
Whakakoro, to Punitotara, to Poukehewa, to Omati,
to Kokohiko, on to Waikoatu; turning here to the
South, it goes straight on till it strikes the Taramouku
River at Komakotangiata; turning here to the East,
it follows the course of the Taramouku in its windings
till it gets to the junction of the Waitoro and
Wharawhara Streams, following the course of the
Wharawhara till it gets to where the boundary of
the Waitara-Taramouku Block strikes the Whara-
whara; turning here to the North it goes on to Whare-
titi; turning here to the East it goes on to Tuipaki;
turning to the North it goes on to Ohaupari to
Pungapopohi; turning here to the East, it goes on to
Tongirere; turning here to the North and inclining
to the East, to Puiatoa, and turning again to the
North, it goes on to Taumatarangi, and continues on
till it strikes the River Mangawhiro; following the
Mangawhiro to its junction with Urenui; following
the course of the Urenui River in its windings till it
meets the European survey line; turning here to the
South-west it follows that line in its windings till it
gets to Onaero, where it commenced: excepting out
of the hereinbefore described area two Native re-
serves on the North-western boundary containing
five hundred (500) acres and two hundred (200)
acres respectively, as the same are delineated on the
plan of the said block in the office of the Chief
Surveyor of the Provincial District of Taranaki.

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-

ERRATUM.-In New Zealand Gazette, No. 42, of the 14th May, 1877, p. 532, in notice of election of Members of Ellesmere and
Forsyth Reclamation and Akaroa Railway Trust, for "Thomas Parkinson Hodgson," read "Thomas Hodgson Parkinson."