1879.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1279

Now, therefore I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby delegate to the Waipipi Highway District Board for the time being all the powers now vested in me by the seventh section of the Act of the late Province of Auckland, Session XX., No. 10, the Short Title of which is “The Impounding Act, 1867.”

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, 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 Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

W. Gisborne.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

“Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876,” brought into force in the Palmerston 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 Palmerston Rabbit District, as constituted by Order in Council of the sixteenth 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 eleventh day of November next, at three o’clock p.m., at the Public Hall, Palmerston; and I appoint

JOHN TAYLOR DALRYMPLE,

of Palmerston, 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 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 Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

G. S. Whitmore.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Declaring “Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876,” in force within the Featherston Local Board District, County of Wairarapa West.

(l.s.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue of the power vested in me by the third section of “The Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876,” I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said Act shall come into force, in respect of all the elective offices of the Featherston Local Board, within the District known as the Featherston Local Board District, County of Wairarapa West.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, 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 Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

G. S. Whitmore.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Lands taken for the Purpose of a Portion of the Railway from Greymouth to Brunnerton.

A MEMORIAL

LAID before His Excellency the Governor by the Minister for Public Works, pursuant to the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1876,” containing an accurate description of the lands proposed to be taken for a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a portion of the railway from Greymouth to Brunnerton.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situated within Native Reserve No. 31, in the Town of Greymouth, Provincial District of Westland, Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement 2 acres and 28 perches, being Subdivisions Nos. 132, 133, 134, and 312, formerly known as Block IX., 311, formerly known as Block X., and portion of 310, formerly known as Block XI., of the said reserve. Bounded by lines as follows, that is to say: Commencing at the junction of eastern side of Mount Street with southern side of Mawhera Quay; thence by a line running southerly along said eastern side of Mount Street for a distance of 622 links; thence by a line running easterly at right angles to line last mentioned for a distance of 350 links; thence by a line running northerly at right angles to line last mentioned for a distance of 622 links to southern side of Mawhera Quay; and thence by a line running westerly along said southern side of Mawhera Quay for a distance of 350 links to the starting point.

The aforesaid linkages being more or less, and the land being more particularly delineated on the map marked P.W.D. 6792, hereto attached.

I, the undersigned, James Macandrew, the Minister for Public Works, hereby certify that the above-written memorial is true and correct in the several particulars thereof.

Witness my hand this twenty-second day of August, 1879.

J. MACANDREW,
Minister for Public Works.

Witness to signature—

CHARLES T. BENZONI,
Assistant Under Secretary for Public Works,
Wellington.