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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Warrant appointing Returning Officer, and Order
declaring how Elections of County Councillors for
the Riding of Wangapeka, County of Waimea, are
to be regulated.

NORMANBY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and autho-
rities vested in me by "The Counties Act, 1876,"
I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Nor-
manby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
do hereby appoint

CHARLES ORCHARD

to be Returning Officer to conduct the elections of
County Councillors of the County Council of Waimea,
for the district of the Riding of Wangapeka, in the
County of Waimea, so long as the whole of "The
Counties Act, 1876," is not in force in the said
county. And I do order that such elections shall be
conducted and regulated by and under the provisions
of "The Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876,"
and that the provisions of that Act, except sections
three, four, and six, shall apply accordingly; and that,
for the purposes of that Act, the Returning Officer
hereby appointed, or from time to time hereafter to
be appointed by the Governor, shall have and exercise
all the powers, duties, and functions vested by the
said "Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876," in
any Returning Officer appointed by the local body
under the provisions of that Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this sixth day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
seven.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Rangers appointed under "The Protection of Animals
Act, 1873."

NORMANBY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the
thirty-first section of "The Protection of Ani-
mals Act, 1873," and "The Abolition of Provinces
Act, 1875," I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis
of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, do hereby appoint

Mr. G. H. LUXFORD, of Berhampoor,
Mr. W. BRAMLEY, of Botanical Gardens, Wel-
lington,
Mr. H. Cook, of Makara,
Mr. W. Cook, of Makara,
Mr. JOHN APLIN, of Upper Kaiwara,
Mr. CHARLES DUNCAN, of Porirua,
Mr. HENRY DAMANT, of Horokiwi Road,
Mr. D. SINCLAIR, of Wainuiomata,
Mr. J. SINCLAIR, of Wainuiomata,
Mr. JOHN GRACE, of Wainuiomata,
Mr. WELBY JACKSON, of Wainuiomata,
Mr. FRANK FISK, of Taita,
Mr. T. COTTER, of Silverstream,
Mr. JAMES BROWN, of Upper Hutt,
Mr. JAMES CRUICKSHANK, of Upper Hutt,
Mr. R. ELLIOTTE, of Pakuratahi,
Mr. W. BLACKIE, of Pahautanui,
Mr. G. BEST, of Ohariu,
Mr. ANDREW MAXWELL, of Wellington,

to be Rangers under the said thirty-first section
within the district comprised within the limits of the
County of Hutt, as defined in the First Schedule of
"The Counties Act, 1876," to take care that the said
Protection of Animals Act is complied with in the
said district, and to lay informations against such
persons as may offend against the same.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this sixth day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
seven.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Notice of Petition. Certain districts to be incorpo-
rated with the Borough of Maori Hill.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 6th December, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be
notified that, unless within two months after
the publication of this notice a petition is presented
to His Excellency the Governor signed by not less
than one-third of the burgesses of the Borough of
Maori Hill, or a petition signed by not less than one-
third of the resident householders in certain districts
adjoining the said borough, praying that such dis-
tricts may not be incorporated into the said borough,
His Excellency will, by Proclamation, incorporate
into the said borough the said districts.

The boundaries of the districts proposed to be
incorporated are as follows:-

All that parcel of land in the Provincial District
of Otago, containing by admeasurement 1,700 acres,
more or less. Bounded on the North-west and West
by Bush Reserve and Section 40, 4500 links, by
Sections 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, and part of 54, 8600 links,
by Sections 73, 72, 71, and part of 70, 4200 links, all of
Block V., Dunedin and East Taieri District; on the
North-east by Sections 76 and 73, Block V., Dunedin
and East Taieri, 5280 links, by Road Reserve and Sec-
tions 19 and 12, Block VIII., North Harbour and Blue-
skin, 3320 links, and Sections 66 and 65, Block XI.,
4800 links, Section 8, Block X., 1300 links, and part
of Sections 1 and 2, Block X., 1700 links, all of
North Harbour and Blueskin District, also part of
Section 8, Block 2, a road line, and Sections 14 and
13, Block I., Upper Kaikorai District, 420, 30, and
1860 links; on South-east by north-west side of a
road line between Blocks VIII. and XI., North
Harbour and Blueskin, 150 links, by Sections 8 and
6, and part of Sections 4 and 1, Block X., North
Harbour and Blueskin, 1500 and 4300 links, by
Dunedin Town Belt 2400 and 620 links, by middle
of a road line between Sections 8 and 9, 843
links, and by Section 8, Block II., Upper Kai-
korai District, 1140 links, and by middle of a
road line north-west of Sections 101, 102, and 103,
Wakari District, 1720 links; on the South and South-
west by Sections 36, 38, 40, Block V., Dunedin and
East Taieri, 4300 links, and Sections 10 and 51,
Wakari District, 4320 links, by middle of a road
line from Dunedin Town Belt to northern angle of
Section 101, Wakari District, 10,000 links, and by
the north-east side of a road line present boundary
of Maori Hill Municipality, 1710 links; be all the
aforesaid linkages more or less.

G. S. WHITMORE.

By-laws of Avenal Municipal Corporation con-
firmed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 1877.

THE following By-laws, passed by the Municipal
Corporation of the Borough of Avenal, are
published in accordance with the provisions of "The
Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act,
1865."

G. S. WHITMORE.

BY-LAWS MADE UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF "THE
OTAGO MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS EMPOWERING
ACT, 1865."

Any person guilty of any of the following offences,
omissions, or neglects within the Town of Avenal
shall, on being convicted of any such offence, neglect,
or omission, be liable to pay any penalty not exceed-
ing five pounds (£5).