THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1539

the Schedule to "The Canterbury Public Domains
Act, 1872," nor any agreement between the said
Superintendent and any person or persons in respect
of the dedication of any portion of the said lands to
any purpose of public recreation or amusement.
6. This alteration shall not destroy or affect the
validity of instruments executed or acts done during
the subsistence of delegation made by the herein-
before recited Proclamation of the fifth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, 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 Coun-
cil; 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
first day of November, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.
ROBERT STOUT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Note.—This Proclamation is to be read in lieu of
that published in Gazette No. 99, of 13th December,
1877.

Declaring Lands open for Free Selection,
Taranaki.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fourth section of "The Crown
Lands Sale Act, 1877," it is enacted that,
from and after the coming into operation of that Act,
and until further provision is made for the classifica-
tion of Crown lands by the General Assembly, all
Crown lands shall be sold in accordance with the
law in force in the land district where such lands are
situated, but not in any case at a less price than two
pounds per acre, if by free selection; and in the event
of any land having to be sold at auction after appli-
cation to purchase, then the upset price at which such
land shall be put up to auction shall be at such price
per acre as the Waste Lands Board may determine,
not being less than the price at which the land was
open for application: Provided that, after lands
have been put up to auction at a price of not less
than one pound per acre, the said land may, by
Proclamation by the Governor, be open to free
selection at a price of not less than one pound per
acre:

And whereas the lands specified in the Schedule
hereto have been put up to auction at prices of not
less than thirty pounds per acre for the town sections,
three pounds per acre for the suburban sections, and
one pound per acre for the rural sections, and were
not sold, and it is expedient that the same lands
should be opened to free selection:

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 hereinbefore
recited Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that
the lands in the Provincial District of Taranaki
specified in the Schedule hereto are opened to free
selection at prices of not less than thirty pounds per
acre for the town sections, three pounds per acre for
the rural sections.

SCHEDULE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, 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 first day of November, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.
ROBERT STOUT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!