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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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
fifteenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclaiming "The Nelson Dog Nuisance Act, 1863,"
to be in operation within portion of the County of
Grey.

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

WHEREAS by an Act of the Provincial Council
of Nelson intituled "The Dog Nuisance Act,
1863," it is enacted that the said Act shall come into
operation in certain districts, and in such other dis-
tricts as shall be proclaimed by the Superintendent
in the Government Gazette, upon the request of a
majority of the resident electors in such district :
And whereas by "The Abolition of Provinces Act,
1875," all the powers, duties, and functions which
immediately before the date of the abolition of any
province were, under or by virtue of any law not
expressly or impliedly repealed or altered thereby,
vested in or to be exercised or performed by the
Superintendent of such abolished province, either
alone or with the advice and consent of or on the
recommendation of the Executive or Provincial
Council of such province, and for the purposes of
the district included within such abolished province,
became vested in and to be exercised and performed
by the Governor: And whereas a petition has been
received signed by a majority of the resident electors
in the district described in the Schedule hereto:
Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that,
on and from the date of this Proclamation, the said
"Dog Nuisance Act, 1863," shall come into operation
within the district comprised in that portion of the
County of Grey described in the Schedule hereto,
and the said Act shall extend and apply to the said
portion of the County of Grey accordingly.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of
Nelson, bounded towards the North by the middle of
Razorback Creek to its source, thence by a right
line to the summit of Paparoa Range, thence by said
range to Mount Faraday, thence by a straight line
to the source of Otututu River, thence by the middle
of that river to its confluence with the Grey River,
thence by the middle of that river to a point at which
a straight line west from Mount Haast intersects the
Grey River, thence by said straight line to Mount
Haast, thence by the summit of the watershed to
Travers Peak; towards the South-east by the summit
of Spencer Range to the saddle; towards the South-
west by a straight line from saddle to the junction of
the River Arnould and Lake Brunner, and thence
by the middle of said river to the Grey River, thence
by the middle of said river to the ocean; and towards
the West by the ocean.

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
eleventh day of May, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Declaring "Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876,"
in force within the Manchester Highway District.

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

BY virtue of the power vested in me by the third
section of "The Regulation of Local Elections
Act, 1876," I, George Augustus Constantine, Mar-
quis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that
the said Act shall come into force, in respect of all
elective offices of the Manchester Highway Board,
within the district known as the Manchester Highway
District.

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 eleventh day of May, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Lands taken for the purpose of a portion of the
Railway from Greymouth to Brunnerton.

A MEMORIAL

LAID before His Excellency the Governor by the
Minister for Public Works, pursuant to the pro-
visions of "The Public Works Act, 1876," contain-
ing an accurate description of the lands proposed
to be taken for a certain public work-to wit, the
construction of a portion of the railway from Grey-
mouth to Brunnerton.

ALL that parcel of land in the County of Grey,
Provincial District of Nelson, containing by ad-
measurement two (2) roods twenty-nine (29) perches,
more or less. Commencing at a point in the southern
boundary of the Brunner Coal Mining Company's