THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 849

Rehearing of Native Land Claim.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
thirtieth day of May, 1878.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the fifty-eighth section of "The
Native Land Act, 1873" (hereinafter referred
to as "the said Act"), it is enacted that, upon the
application of any persons interested in any Native
land who may feel themselves aggrieved by the de-
cision of the Native Land Court in respect thereof,
the Governor in Council may order a rehearing of
any matter heard and decided under the provisions
of the said Act, within such a period of time from
the publication of the decision and memorial of
ownership, in manner in the said Act required, as
may be limited in such order; and upon such order
being made, all proceedings theretofore taken by the
Court in such matter shall be annulled, and the case
shall commence de novo, and shall proceed in manner
provided by the said Act: Provided that no appli-
cation for a rehearing shall be entertained if it be
made after six months shall have elapsed from the
time of such publication:

And whereas by the eighth section of "The Native
Land Act Amendment Act, 1874" (hereinafter
referred to as "the said Amendment Act"), it is
enacted that, in any case where an application for a
rehearing of any matter heard and decided under
"The Native Lands Act, 1865," and the Acts amend-
ing the same, shall have been made subsequently to
the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three, the Governor in Council may, in
the manner provided by the fifty-eighth section of the
said Act, order a reharing of any such matter so
heard and decided as aforesaid, and all the provisions
of the said Act respecting rehearings, so far as applic-
able, shall extend to any rehearing under the said
Amendment Act: Provided that such application
shall in each case have been made within six months
from the date of the decision of the Court in such
case:

And whereas at a sitting of the Native Land Court
of New Zealand, at Waiomatatini, in the District of
Hawke's Bay, in the Provincial District of Auckland,
on the second day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight, the claim of Mere Raihi
and others, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, to a
piece of land called Taitai, in the said district, was
heard and decided, and a certain order was thereupon
made by the said Court:

And whereas, on or about the sixth day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, an
application was made to the said Court, by and on
behalf of certain aboriginal natives claiming to have
an interest in the said land, for a rehearing of the
said claim; and it is expedient that the said claim
should be reheard before the said Court.

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of the above-recited power,
and by and with the advice and consent of the Exe-
cutive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby order
and direct that the said claim of Mere Raihi and
others to the piece of land aforesaid shall be reheard
as and in the manner provided by "The Native Land
Act, 1873;" and doth also order that such rehearing
shall take place within two years from the said
second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Warrant appointing Polling-places.

NORMANBY, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections Act,
1870," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, by warrant under his hand, from time
to time to appoint polling-places for each electoral
district within or within one mile of the limits thereof,
and to appoint any one of such polling-places to be
the principal polling-place for the district, and all or
any of such polling-places from time to time to
abolish, and, if he think fit, to appoint other polling-
places in lieu of those abolished, and that every such
warrant shall be published in the New Zealand
Gazette : Provided always that no polling-place
shall be appointed by the Governor under the said
Act, unless he shall be first satisfied that the place to
be appointed is more convenient than any other for
at least twenty electors to record their votes thereat:

Now know ye that I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of New Zealand,
in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested
by the said Act, do hereby appoint the following
places to be additional polling-places for the electoral
district hereinafter specified, for the election of Mem-
bers of the House of Representatives, namely:---

For the District of Hokitika, -
The Resident Magistrate's Courthouse,
Kumara; and
Ryan's Store, Dillman's Town.

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; at Christ-
church, this eighth day of June, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Notification of the Payment of Money on and Entry
into Negotiations for the Purchase of Native Lands
in the North Island.

NORMANBY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the provisions of "The Govern-
ment Native Land Purchases Act, 1877," it is
hereby notified that money has been paid by or on
behalf of Her Majesty the Queen for the purchase
or acquisition of the several blocks of Native land in
the North Island which are more particularly de-
scribed and mentioned in the Schedule hereto; and,
further, that negotiations in respect of such purchases
or acquisitions as aforesaid have been entered into
by or on behalf of Her said Majesty.

SCHEDULE.
MURIMOTU.
ALL that block or parcel of land at Murimotu, in
the District of Mangonui, in the Provincial District
of Auckland, containing by admeasurement 2,491