Numb. 69.
1009

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1878.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1878.

Extending Boundaries of Borough of Ross.

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

WHEREAS by the twenty-fifth section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," it is
enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation, in-
corporate into a borough any district adjacent thereto
not being part of an existing borough, subject to
certain conditions therein particularly specified: And
whereas the Governor did, on the twenty-fifth day
of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight, cause a notice setting forth the boundaries of
the district described in the Schedule hereto to be
published in the Borough of Ross, and on the
seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight, a like notice in the said district
that it was proposed to incorporate into the aforesaid
borough the said district: And whereas no petition
has been presented to the Governor, as by the said
Act is provided, praying that such district or part
thereof should not be incorporated into the said
borough:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and
authorities vested in me by the said "Municipal
Corporations Act, 1876," and of every other power
and authority in that behalf me enabling, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the district the boundaries
whereof are specified in the Schedule hereto is hereby
incorporated into the Borough of Ross.

SCHEDULE.

STARTING from the junction of Donelly's Creek with
the Jones' Creek Storm Channel, and bounded
towards the North-east by a right line from said
junction to Trigonometrical Station A; thence by
a right line to the source of Quartz Creek (left
branch of Donelly's Creek); thence towards the
South-east by a right line to the western end of the
Mikonui Water-race Tunnel; thence towards the

South-west by a right line to the southernmost
corner of the existing Borough of Ross; and towards
the North-west by the said borough.

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 Dis-
tinguished 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
twelfth day of July, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.
G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclamation declaring Exceptions, Covenants, Provi-
soes, Conditions, and Agreements to be made from
and in Gold-Mining and Agricultural Leases, under
the 61st Section of "The Mines Act, 1877."

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Mines Act, 1877," it is,
amongst other things, enacted that the Go-
vernor may from time to time, by Proclamation,
declare the exceptions to be made from leases granted
under that Act, and the covenants, provisoes, con-
ditions, and agreements applicable to such leases
respectively, and he may in like manner from time to
time rescind, alter, or vary the same: