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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Permission to the Council of the University of Otago to borrow £10,000.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superinten-
dent and Provincial Council of the Province
of Otago intituled "An Ordinance to incorporate
the University of Otago," it is, among other things,
enacted that it shall not be lawful for the said Uni-
versity to alienate, mortgage, charge, or demise any
lands, tenements, or hereditaments of which it shall
have become seized, or to which it may become en-
titled by grant, purchase, or otherwise, unless with
the approval of the Superintendent and Executive
Council of the said province for the time being,
except by way of lease for any term not exceeding
twenty-one years from the time when such lease
shall be made; and in and by such lease there shall
be reserved the highest rent that can be reasonably
obtained for the lands, tenements, and hereditaments
expressed to be thereby demised, without fine: And
whereas by the operation of "The Abolition of Pro-
vinces Act, 1875," all the powers and authorities
theretofore vested in the Superintendents of pro-
vinces became and are now vested in the Governor:
And whereas the Council of the said University are
desirous of borrowing a sum of money, not exceeding
ten thousand pounds, at interest, for the purpose of
erecting certain buildings and for other purposes
connected with the said University, and it will be
necessary that security should be given over the
property of the University, as hereinafter men-
tioned:
Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Ad-
ministrator of the Government of the Colony of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of every power
and authority enabling me in that behalf, do hereby
approve of the borrowing by the said University, for
the purposes aforesaid, of a sum not exceeding ten
thousand pounds, to be repaid with interest at a rate
not exceeding eight pounds per centum per annum ;
the repayment thereof, with interest, to be secured
in such manner as the Council of the said University
may think fit, by a mortgage or other charge upon the
rents and other revenues derived from any lands,
tenements, or hereditaments vested in the said Uni-
versity.
to Her Majesty the Queen; and in case of non-
payment thereof for me and in my name and on my
behalf to bring and prosecute all such actions or
suits, and take all such proceedings, in or before any
Court of competent jurisdiction as may be necessary
for recovering or obtaining payment of all such sums
of money, or any part thereof, in such manner and
form as may be authorized by law, and on payment
or receipt thereof to give valid receipts and dis-
charges for the same.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Administrator of the Government, this
twenty-fifth day of March, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.
J. BALLANCE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Administrator of the Government, this
twentieth day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.
J. T. FISHER,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Authorizing C. D. Whitcombe to receive Payment
for Passages to the Colony.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance of every power and authority
enabling me in that behalf, I, James Prender-
gast, the Administrator of the Government of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby authorize and em-
power Charles Douglas Whitcombe, Esquire, of New
Plymouth, in the Provincial District of Taranaki, in the
name and on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, and
on my behalf, to ask for, demand, and receive pay-
ment of all sums of money now due, or that may
hereafter become due, owing, or payable, to Her said
Majesty by any person or persons for or in respect of
his or their promissory note or notes given to Her
said Majesty on account of passage moneys to the
said colony, and which moneys are due and payable

Auditor appointed for County of Clutha.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint
HENRY LIVINGSTON, Esq.,
to be an Auditor to audit the accounts of the County
of Clutha.

J. T. FISHER,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Inspector of Weights and Measures, Timaru District,
appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint
Constable THOMAS STEPHENSON
to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures for the
Timaru District, as defined in a Proclamation in the
New Zealand Gazette, dated 11th October, 1871.

J. T. FISHER,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Election of Members of Henley River Board.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th March, 1879.

NOTICE has been received from the Chairman
of the first meeting of ratepayers of the
Henley River District, County of Taieri, that on the
15th instant the following persons were duly elected
Members of the Board of Conservators for the said
district :-
EDWARD BOWES CARGILL,
JAMES ALLAN,
WILLIAM THOMAS SHAND,
ALEXANDER FLEMING, and
HENRY CAMPBELL.

G. S. WHITMORE.

First Meeting of Board of Conservators of Henley
River District.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to appoint, under sec-
tion 9 of "The Hawke's Bay and Marlborough
Rivers Act Amendment Act, 1872," Tuesday, the
15th day of April next, at noon, to be the day
and time, and the Henley Woolshed, Henley Estate,
to be the place, for the first meeting of the Board of
Conservators of the Henley River District.

G. S. WHITMORE.