1348

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Land temporarily reserved in the Provincial District
of Canterbury.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and forty-fourth
section of "The Land Act, 1877," it is enacted
that the Governor may from time to time, either by
general or particular description, and whether the
same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale
temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be
then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands
which in his opinion are required for any of the pur-
poses in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the
powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act,
do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in
the Provincial District of Canterbury described in
the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose in
the said Schedule specified.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of
Canterbury, containing by admeasurement seventy-
five (75) acres, more or less, being Section numbered
two thousand two hundred and seventy-eight (2278)
(in red). Bounded towards the North by a road
line for a distance of eighteen (18) chains seventy-
five (75) links; towards the West by Crown lands
for a distance of forty (40) chains; towards the
South by Crown lands for a distance of eighteen (18)
chains seventy-five (75) links; and towards the East
by Crown lands for a distance of forty (40) chains:
as the same is delineated on the plans deposited in
the Provincial District Survey Office, Christchurch.

As an endowment for primary education.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-eighth day of Sep-
tember, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.

ROBERT STOUT.

Jury Lists to be prepared.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the fifteenth section of "The
Juries Act, 1868," it is enacted that, in case
any Circuit Court or sittings of the Supreme Court
for trial of civil or criminal cases, or District Court,
or Court of Sessions of the Peace, shall thereafter be
lawfully directed or appointed to be holden at any
town other than those at which Courts are now
holden, the Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court
there, if there be one, or a Jury Officer to be ap-
pointed for the jury district of such town in manner
in the said Act mentioned, shall act as Jury Officer
for the jury district of such town, and such Jury
Officer, and all Justices of the Peace, and the Regis-
trars, Clerks, or other officers of Courts, constables
and officers of police, and Sheriffs, shall within such
time as the Governor shall order, for that occasion
only, do and perform all such acts, matters, and
things, in and towards preparing, collecting, allowing,
sending, and delivering the lists of men qualified and
liable to serve on juries, and making out the jury
books for every such jury district, as are thereinbefore
required ordinarily to be done at a different time or
period, and all such last-mentioned jury books shall
be brought into use, and the persons whose names
shall be therein set down shall be liable to serve,
immediately after the same shall have been made out
by the Sheriff, and the said last-mentioned books
shall be used until new books shall have been pre-
pared under the provisions thereinbefore contained:

And whereas sittings of the District Court have been

lawfully directed or appointed to be holden at Grey-
town and Masterton, in the Provincial District of
Wellington, being towns other than those at which
Courts have heretofore been holden:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in exercise of all powers and
authorities in this behalf vested in me by the said
Act, do hereby order that the Jury Officer for the
Jury Districts of Greytown and Masterton aforesaid,
and all Justices of the Peace, and the Registrars,
Clerks, or other officers of Courts, constables and
officers of police, and Sheriffs, shall, before the first
day of November next, do and perform all such acts,
matters, and things, in and towards preparing, col-
lecting, allowing, sending, and delivering the lists of
men qualified and liable to serve on juries, and
making out the jury books for the Jury Districts of
Greytown and Masterton aforesaid, as are therein-
before in the said Act ordinarily required to be done
at a different time or period:

And I do order that, for the purposes aforesaid,
the words in the sections of the said "Juries Act,
1868," specified in the first column of the Schedule
hereto, shall respectively be construed and read as if
the words in the second column of the said Schedule
were inserted in lieu of such words in the said
sections respectively.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this thirtieth day of Septem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.

JOHN SHEEHAN.

**Despatch.—Confirmation and Allowance of "The New
Zealand Consolidated Stock Act, 1877."

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 30th September, 1878.

THE following despatch from Her Majesty's Prin-
cipal Secretary of State for the Colonies is
published for general information.

G. S. WHITMORE.

(No. 31.) Downing Street,
29th July, 1878.

MY LORD,—I have the honor to convey to you Her
Majesty's gracious confirmation and allowance of
the Act of the Legislature of New Zealand, intituled
"An Act to provide for the Creation of New Zealand
Consolidated Stock, and for making Arrangements
with the Bank of England in relation thereto, and for
other purposes," a transcript of which accompanied
your Lordship's Despatch No. 4, of the 4th of
January last.

I have, &c.,
M. E. HICKS-BEACH.

Governor the Most Hon. the
Marquis of Normanby, G.C.M.G.