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he may determine; and any lands so proclaimed may
thereafter be sold at a like price and subject to the
like terms and conditions, or as near thereto as may
be, as Crown lands of the same class not within a
mining district: And the Governor may from time
to time alter, amend, or revoke any such Proclama-
tion:

And whereas the Land Board of Westland did, on
the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight, pass resolutions recom-
mending that the land described in the Schedule
hereto annexed should be set apart for sale on
deferred payments:

And whereas it is expedient to give effect to the
aforesaid recommendation, and to set apart the said
land accordingly:

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 above-
named Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the
land described in the Schedule hereto is set apart
for sale on deferred payments; and that Monday,
the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight, shall be the day on which
the said land shall be open for application at the
Land Office at Hokitika, in allotments as surveyed
and marked on the survey map in the office of the
Chief Surveyor.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District
of Westland, containing by admeasurement one
thousand and twenty-seven (1,027) acres, more or
less, being Deferred-payments Block numbered three
(3) on the map of the Poerua Survey District,
commencing at a point on the Okarito to Bowen
Road seventeen chains fifty links west from road
peg number 2143. Bounded on the West by a
straight line eighty-one chains north and eighty-one
chains south from the said road, one hundred and
sixty-three (163) chains; on the North by a line at
right angles with last-mentioned boundary, sixty-
three (63) chains; on the East by a line parallel with
west boundary; and on the South by a line parallel
with north boundary. Subject to roads and reserves,
and exclusive of Okarito and Bowen Road and gold-
workings.

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

J. MACANDREW.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Cock Pheasants, Californian Quail, and Hares, not to
be hunted, &c., within the Counties of Fiord, Wallace,
Southland, and Stewart Island.

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Protection of Animals Act,
1873," it is, amongst other things, enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, by
Proclamation published in the Gazette, from time
to time to declare in which part or parts of the
province game shall not be hunted, shot, taken, or
killed, and by such order further to declare the
particular species of game which shall not be so
hunted, shot, taken, or killed :

And whereas by the seventh section of "The
Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," all powers, duties,
and functions vested in the Superintendents of
abolished provinces are vested in and are to be
exercised and performed by the Governor:

And whereas by a Proclamation made under the
authority of the said Act, and dated the eighteenth
day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight, cock pheasants, Californian quail, and hares
are authorized to be hunted, shot, taken, or killed
within the Provincial District of Otago:

And whereas it is expedient to declare that the
said species of game shall not be hunted, shot, taken,
or killed in the parts of the said provincial district
hereafter referred to:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of every
power and authority vested in me in that behalf, do
hereby proclaim and declare that, notwithstanding
the authority conferred by the said Proclamation,
cock pheasants and Californian quail shall not be
hunted, shot, taken, or killed within the boundaries
of the several Counties of Fiord, Wallace, Southland,
and Stewart Island, and that in the said counties
hare shall not be shot or otherwise killed except by
coursing.

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 twenty-eighth day of
May, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN