Numb. 84.

1205

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1878.

Proclaiming a Hundred in Otago under "The Land Act, 1877."

(L.S.)

NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section thirteen of Appendix H, of
"The Land Act, 1877," it is enacted that it
shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time,
by Proclamation published in the New Zealand
Gazette, to constitute into a hundred any portion of
the Crown lands not forming part of any hundred
previously proclaimed, notwithstanding that such
lands or any part thereof shall be comprised within
any pastoral lease or license heretofore or hereafter
to be granted by the Crown under any law regu-
lating the occupation or disposal of Crown lands,
and whether or not the same shall have been included
within the boundaries of any proclaimed gold field :

And whereas the Land Board of Otago have re-
commended that the land described in the Schedule
hereto should be proclaimed a hundred under the
provisions of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient that effect should be
given to the said recommendation of the Land
Board:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers vested in me by the hereinbefore in part
recited Act, do hereby proclaim that the portion of
the waste lands particularly described in the Schedule
hereto shall be and the same is hereby constituted
into a hundred, under and for the purposes of the
said Act; and that it shall be called or known by the
name set above the description of the said hundred
in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

MARTIN'S BAY HUNDRED.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Otago,
containing by estimation 17,250 acres, more or less,
situate in the Martin's Bay District. Commencing
at a point at high-water mark on the production of
the western boundary of Section numbered 12, Block
IX., Martin's Bay District; thence in a line due South
to a point due West of the south boundary of Sec-
tion 14 of said Block IX., being the south boundary
of Section 14 aforesaid produced; thence due East
to the South-east corner of said Section 14, Block
IX.; thence due South along the boundary between
Blocks II. and IX., Martin's Bay District, to a point
due West of the southern boundary of Section 3,
Block III., being the south boundary of Section 3
aforesaid produced; thence due East to the Lake
McKerrow; thence across Lake McKerrow to the
South-west corner of Section 6, Block III.; thence
in a line due East along the southern boundary of
Section 6 aforesaid to a point due South of the
eastern boundary of Block II. produced; thence due
North along the eastern boundaries of Blocks III.,
II., and I., Martin's Bay District, to high-water
mark, Big Bay; thence in a westerly, southerly, and
again westerly direction along high-water mark of
Big Bay and Martin's Bay to the starting point.

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

ROBERT STOUT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!