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DIEU ET SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE MON DROIT

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1878.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1878.

10th October instant to be a Bank Holiday.

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

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and autho-
rities enabling me in that behalf, I, George
Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
proclaim and declare that, by Order in Council made
under the provisions of "The Bank Holidays Act,
1873," and dated the second day of this current
month of October, I have appointed Thursday, the
tenth day of October instant, to be observed through-
out the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay as a
bank holiday under and for the purposes of the
above-mentioned Act.

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

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Incorporation of Patea District Agricultural and
Pastoral Association.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
second day of October, 1878.
Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Agricultural and Pastoral
Societies Act, 1877," it is, among other things,
enacted that, whenever any number of persons, not
being less than fifty, shall have associated themselves
together into a society for any of the purposes
therein recited, it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council, on the petition of not fewer than two-thirds
of such persons, to incorporate the said petitioners,
and the whole other persons at that time being mem-
bers of the said society, and such persons as shall
thereafter be admitted members thereof agreeably to
the rules of the said society and the provisions of the
aforesaid Act, into a body corporate, by a style and
title to be named in the Order in Council incorporat-
ing the same:

And whereas a number of persons exceeding fifty
have associated themselves together into a society for
the purpose of promoting the advancement of agricul-
ture, the improvement of stock, and the different
branches of rural industry, and the arts therewith
connected:

And whereas not fewer than two-thirds of such
persons have presented a petition to the Governor in
Council, praying for incorporation under the pro-
visions of the said Act, as in the said petition more
particularly mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, in compliance with the
terms of the said petition, in pursuance and exercise
of the power and authority contained in the said
Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby
incorporate the said petitioners, and the whole other