Num. 75. 877

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1877.

Proclamation of Public Prison at Kumara.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Prisons Act, 1873,” it is provided that the Governor may from time to time, as to him shall seem meet, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, declare any house, building, enclosure, or place to be a public prison; and from and after the publication of any such Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, or from any later time specified in the Proclamation, such house, building, enclosure, or place shall be deemed to be a public prison:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare the following house or building to be a Public Prison:—

The Lock-up at Kumara, in the County of Westland.

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 Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Grand Cross 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 twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Town of South Invercargill proclaimed a Borough under “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876.”

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fifteenth section of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation, declare any of the several places specified in the Third Schedule to the said Act in which a Municipal Corporation has been established under the provisions of an Ordinance of the Province of Otago intituled “The Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” to be a borough constituted under the said “Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,” from a day to be named in such Proclamation; subject, however, to certain conditions in the said section mentioned: And whereas the Town of South Invercargill, in the Provincial District of Otago, is one of the places specified in the said Third Schedule, and a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor by fifty-one of the ratepayers of such town praying him to constitute such town into a borough under the said “Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,” and such petition was, on the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, publicly notified, and no petition from an equal or greater number of such ratepayers was presented to His Excellency within two months after such public notification praying him not to assent to the prayer of such first-mentioned petition:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby proclaim and declare that from the twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, the said Town of South Invercargill shall be a borough constituted under the said “Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,” and shall be called the Borough of South Invercargill, and that the boundaries of such borough shall be those specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF SOUTH INVERCARGILL.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Provincial District of Otago, containing by admeasurement 1,700