Numb. 95. 1345

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1878.

Town of Alexandra proclaimed a Borough under
"The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fifteenth section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," it is
enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation,
declare any of the several places specified in the
Third Schedule to the said Act in which a Municipal
Corporation has been established under the pro-
visions of an Ordinance of the Province of Otago
intituled "The Otago Municipal Corporations Ordi-
nance, 1865," to be a borough constituted under the
said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," from a
day to be named in such Proclamation; subject,
however, to certain conditions in the said section
mentioned: And whereas the Town of Alexandra, in
the Provincial District of Otago, is one of the places
specified in the said Third Schedule, and a petition
has been presented to His Excellency the Governor
by fifty-two of the ratepayers of such town praying
him to constitute such town into a borough under
the said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," and
such petition was, on the nineteenth day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, publicly
notified, and no petition from an equal or greater
number of such ratepayers was presented to His
Excellency within two months after such public
notification praying him not to assent to the prayer
of such first-mentioned petition :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities
enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby proclaim
and declare that from the first day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, the said
Town of Alexandra shall be a borough constituted
under the said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,"
and shall be named the incorporated Town of Alex-
andra; and that the boundaries of such borough shall
be those specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Otago,
containing by admeasurement eight hundred and
forty-eight (848) acres, more or less, situate at the
junction of the Clutha and Manuherikia Rivers,
being the Town of Alexandra. Bounded towards the
North-west by Block VII., Leaning Rock District,
eleven thousand nine hundred and nineteen (11919)
links; towards the North-east by Block VII.,
Leaning Rock District, seven thousand six hundred
and fifteen (7615) links; towards the East by the
Manuherikia River, eight thousand eight hundred
(8800) links; and towards the South by the Clutha
River, eleven thousand (11000) links.

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 Depen-
dencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same;
and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this thirtieth day of Sep-
tember, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Appointment of Ranger of Crown Lands.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the seventeenth section of "The
Land Act, 1877," it is provided that the
Governor may from time to time, as he shall think
fit, appoint one or more persons within each district
to be Rangers of Crown Lands, whose duties shall be
to observe and take care that the provisions of the
said Act are complied with within the district for
which they shall be appointed, and to lay information
against such persons as may offend against the same,
and otherwise discharge such duties as the Commis-
sioner of Crown Lands shall appoint:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the pwoer and