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in Council may, on receipt of a petition duly signed
by not less than ten landowners residing within any
district proposed to be proclaimed under the said
Act, cause the prayer and substance of such petition
to be gazetted and publicly notified, and, unless a
counter petition by an equal or greater number
of landowners to the contrary is received by the
Governor within thirty days from the date of such
publication, the Governor may, by Proclamation,
constitute and declare the area described by such
petition to be a district for the purposes of the said
Act, by some specific name: And whereas a petition
has been received under the said Act, signed by not
less than ten landowners residing within the area
described in the Schedule hereto, praying that such
area may be declared a rabbit district under the
said Act, and the Governor in Council has caused
the prayer and substance of such petition to be duly
gazetted and publicly notified as by the said Act
required, and no counter petition, as prescribed by
the said Act, has been received by the Governor:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert
Robinson, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
in pursuance and exercise of the powers and au-
thorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby
proclaim, constitute, and declare the area described
in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the pur-
poses of the said Act, and the name of such district
to be the Napier Rabbit District: And I do further
direct that Saturday, the eighteenth day of October
now next, at twelve noon, at the old Provincial
Council Chamber at Napier, shall be the time and
place for holding a meeting of the landowners of such
district for the purpose of electing five persons to be
the Trustees of such district, for the purposes of the
said Act..

SCHEDULE.

NAPIER RABBIT DISTRICT.

ALL that area comprised within the Counties of
Hawke's Bay and Waipawa.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished 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-sixth day of September, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

"Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876," brought
into force in the Napier Rabbit District.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in
me by the seventh section of "The Rabbit
Nuisance Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1877," I,
Hercules George Robert Robinson, the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and
declare that, from and after the day of the date
hereof, "The Regulation of Local Elections Act,
1876," shall come into force in the Napier Rabbit
District, as constituted by a Proclamation of the
twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.

And I do hereby further proclaim and declare that
the first election of Trustees of the said district shall
be held on the eighteenth day of October next, at
twelve noon, at the old Provincial Council Chamber
at Napier; and I appoint

SAMUEL YEOMAN COLLINS

to be Returning Officer to conduct the first elections
of Trustees for the said district.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished 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-sixth day of September, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Extending Boundaries of Borough of South Inver-
cargill.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, 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-third day
of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine, cause a notice setting forth the boundaries of
the district described in the Schedule hereto to be
published in the Borough of South Invercargill, and
in the said district that it was proposed to incor-
porate 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 in-
corporated into the said borough:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robin-
son, 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 South Invercargill, and added to the
North Ward of the said borough.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Provincial
District of Otago, containing 205 acres 1 rood 18
perches, more or less, and comprising Section num-
ber 15, part of Section number 14, both in Block I.,
in the Invercargill Hundred, and Section number 32,
of Block number XIX., in the Invercargill Hundred
aforesaid, and bounded as follows: Commencing at
the north-east corner of the said Section number 15,
and bounded thence by a line running due west, 3000
links; thence by a line running due south, 4600
links; thence by a line running due east, 500 links;
thence by a line running due south, 400 links;
thence by a line running due east, 500 links; thence
by a line running due south, 2868 links; thence by a