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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 34. "An Act to authorize the Taranaki County Council
to borrow Two Thousand Pounds upon the
Security of certain Land;"

No. 35. "An Act for the Investigation of the Title of
certain derivative Claimants and Others to Land
within the Ormond Military Settlement, in the
Provincial District of Auckland;"

No. 36. "An Act to enable the Governor to sell a certain
parcel of Land in the City of Wellington, part of
the Mount Cook Barracks;"

No. 37. "An Act to empower the Patea Harbour Board to
borrow Money;"

No. 38. "An Act to authorize a certain piece of Land
situate at Norsewood, within the Provincial Dis-
trict of Hawke's Bay, to be vested in Trustees;"

No. 39. "An Act to vest certain Lands in the Napier
Harbour Board;"

No. 40. "An Act to amend 'The Wellington College Act,
1872,' and the several Acts amending the same:"

No. 41. "An Act to provide for the Disposal of a Reserve
in the Township of Foxton, in the County of
Manawatu;"

No. 42. "An Act to provide for the Control and Manage-
ment of a High School in the Education District
of Wanganui, and for the Endowment thereof;"

No. 43. "An Act to transfer a piece of Land, situate on
Parnell Rise at Auckland, to the Mayor, Coun-
cillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Parnell,
and to the Board of the Education District of
Auckland, for certain Public Purposes;"

No. 44. "An Act to authorize a certain piece of Land
situate at Hamilton, within the Provincial Dis-
trict of Auckland, to be vested in Trustees, in
trust for Volunteers and Others;"

No. 45. "An Act to vest in the Newmarket District Board
Control and Management of certain Land situated
within the said District;"

No. 46. "An Act to vest certain Lands in the Municipal
Corporation of the Town of Invercargill as an
Endowment for the New River Harbour, and to
empower the said Corporation to borrow Money
for the Improvement of the said Harbour;"

No. 47. "An Act to regulate the Lease and Settlement of
certain Education Reserves within the Provincial
District of Otago;"

No. 48. "An Act to authorize the Government to transfer
to the Corporation of the Borough of Lyttelton
certain Waterworks;"

No. 49. "An Act to provide for the Establishment and
Management of the Ashburton High School;"

No. 50. "An Act to confirm certain Reserves made by the
late Provincial Government of the Province of
Wellington for the Wellington College;"

No. 51. "An Act to amend the Boundaries of the City of
Wellington;"

No. 52. "An Act to provide for the Establishment and
Management of the New Plymouth High School;"

No. 53. "An Act to authorize a Grant of Land to the
Thames Harbour Board, and to empower the
said Board to borrow Moneys;"

No. 54. "An Act to provide for the Establishment and
Management of a Boys' and Girls' High School
at the Thames;"

No. 55. "An Act to provide for the Establishment and
Management of a Girls' High School in Auck-
land;"

No. 56. "An Act to constitute a Harbour Board for the
Port of Milford;"

No. 57. "An Act to constitute a Harbour Board for the
Port of Wairoa;"

No. 58. "An Act to constitute a Harbour Board for the
Port of Nelson;"

No. 59. "An Act to vest certain Land in the Provincial
District of Canterbury in the Borough Council
of Christchurch;"

No. 60. "An Act to provide for the Oamaru Market
Reserve;"

No. 61. "An Act to make further Provision for the Supply
of Water to the Suburbs of Dunedin;"

No. 62. "An Act to validate certain Grants commonly
known as the Whakatane Grants;"

No. 63. "An Act to provide for the Establishment and
Management of a High School at Whangarei, in
the Provincial District of Auckland;"

No. 64. "An Act to grant certain Special Powers to the
Governor to issue Crown Grants, and to enable
him to carry out certain Contracts and Promises."

In the Bill No. 49, entitled "An Act to amend
the Law relating to the Administration of the Estates
of Deceased Persons," which has been reserved for
the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure, I observe
some defects, probably due to inadvertence, which
I will proceed to point out for the consideration of
your Advisers; and, as they may think it desirable to
invite the Legislature to re-enact the Bill in an
amended form, I shall at present take no steps for
submitting the Bill for Her Majesty's assent. By
section 4 of the Bill, "real estate" is to include
"chattel interests," and by section 10 (4) and (5)
the executor or administrator is to hold the "real
estate" of an intestate dying before the 1st October,
1875, or after that day and before the Act comes
into force (unless he leaves a wife or issue), upon
trust for his heir-at-law. The effect of this is to
transfer the beneficial interest in chattels real in
these cases from the next of kin to the heir-at-law,
which was evidently not intended. Section 10 omits
to provide for the trust of real estate of a person
who dies before the Act comes into operation leaving
a will. This would be remedied by leaving out the
words "after this Act comes into operation" in sub-
section (1). In section 23 the word "lands" is
used twice where "real estate" is evidently intended.
In section 35 the use of the expression "next of
kin" leaves it doubtful whether the nearest of kin,
according to the rules of the Civil law, or the per-
sons who under the English Statutes of Distribution
would have taken the mother's personal estate if she
had died intestate at the time of the bastard's death,
are intended. In section 36 the provision for suc-
cession to the estate of a female intestate leaving no
husband or issue was presumably intended to apply,
and should apply, only to the case of an illegitimate,
as there can be no reason for excluding from suc-
cession the father, the brothers and sisters, and their
issue, and the paternal next of kin in any other case.

I have, &c.,

M. E. HICKS BEACH.

Notice of Petition-Certain Land to be added to the
Borough of South Invercargill.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th July, 1879.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be
notified that, unless within two months after
the publication of this notice a petition is presented
to His Excellency signed by not less than one-third
of the burgesses of the Borough of South Inver-
cargill, or a petition signed by not less than one-
third of the resident householders in certain land
adjoining the said borough, praying that such land
may not be incorporated into the said borough, His
Excellency will, by Proclamation, incorporate into
the said borough the said land, and declare that the
land so incorporated shall be added to the North
Ward of the aforesaid Borough of South Invercargill.

The boundaries of the district proposed to be
incorporated are as follows:-

All that piece or parcel of land in the Provincial
District of Otago containing 205 acres 1 rood and
18 poles, more or less, and comprising Section No.
15 and part of Section No. 14, both in Block I. in
the Invercargill Hundred, and Section No. 32 of
Block No. XIX. in the Invercargill Hundred afore-
said; and bounded as follows: Commencing at the
north-east corner of the said Section No. 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
line running due east, 2000 links; thence by a
line running due north to the commencing point,
7868 links.

G. S. WHITMORE.