1378
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 92

Section 7, Block IV., on the map of the said town,
commencing at a point on the south-western boundary
of said section, 60 links distant from the south-western
corner of said Section 7; thence running in a north-
north-easterly direction, 37 links; thence in a west-
north westerly direction, 60 links; thence in a south-
south-westerly direction, 30 links; thence in an east-
south-easterly direction, 60 links, home to the com-
mencing point: the total area of land being 26 poles;
be all the aforesaid measurements more or less; the
various particulars being delineated on the map
attached to the memorial above referred to.

Given under the hand of His Excellency James
Prendergast, Esquire, Chief Justice, the
Administrator of the Government of Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand; and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at the Government House, at Wellington,
this twenty-third day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty.
R. OLIVER.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land set apart on Deferred Payments in Otago.

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fifty-third section of "The
Land Act, 1877," it is enacted that the
Governor, by Proclamation in the Gazette, may from
time to time set apart out of any suburban or rural
lands such blocks or allotments of land as he shall
think fit, and set the same aside for sale on deferred
payments, and in such Proclamation may fix a day
on which the land shall be open for application; and
that he may also in like manner set apart for sale on
deferred payments such blocks or allotments as may
be recommended by any Land Board, and may also
from time to time alter, amend, or revoke any such
Proclamation:

And whereas the Land Board of Otago did, on
the eighth day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty, pass a resolution recommending
that the land described in the Schedule hereto
annexed should be set apart for sale on deferred pay-
ments:

And whereas it is expedient to give effect to the
aforesaid recommendation, and to set apart the said
land accordingly:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Ad-
ministrator of the Government of the Colony of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority vested in me by the above-named Act, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the land described
in the Schedule hereto is set apart for sale on
deferred payments; and that Thursday, the fourth
day of November, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty, shall be the day on which the said land shall
be open for application at the Land Office at Dun-
edin, in allotments as surveyed and marked on the
selection map in that office.

And, further, in pursuance of the fifth section of
"The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879," I do
hereby fix the price at which the land so described
shall be sold to be the price set opposite each allot-
ment in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
MAEREWHENUA DISTRICT.

Given under the hand of His Excellency James
Prendergast, Esquire, Chief Justice, the
Administrator of the Government of Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand; and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at the Government House, at Wellington,
this twenty-fourth day of September, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Hawksbury, County of Waikouaiti, proclaimed a
Borough under "The Municipal Corporations Act,
1876."

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fifteenth section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," it is
enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation,
declare any of the several places specified in the
Third Schedule to the said Act in which a Municipal
Corporation has been established under the provi-
sions of an Ordinance of the Province of Otago
intituled "The Otago Municipal Corporations Ordi-
nance, 1865," to be a borough constituted under the
said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," from a
day to be named in such Proclamation; subject,
however, to certain conditions in the said section
mentioned:

And whereas the Town of West Hawksbury, in
the Provincial District of Otago, is one of the places
specified in the said Third Schedule, and a petition
has been presented to His Excellency the Governor,
by fifty-seven of the ratepayers of such town, praying
him to constitute such town into a borough under
the said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," and
such petition was, on the twenty-third day of July,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty, publicly
notified, and no petition from an equal or greater
number of such ratepayers was presented to His
Excellency within two months after such public noti-
fication praying him not to assent to the prayer of
such first-mentioned petition:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Adminis-
trator of the Government of the Colony of New
Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of all powers and