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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Government House, at Wellington, this
twentieth day of October, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two.
THOMAS DICK.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Election of Members of the Board of Conservators of
the Mandeville and Rangiora Drainage District,
Canterbury.

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

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and au-
thority vested in me by "The Canterbury Rivers
Act 1870 Amendment Act, 1882," I, James Prender-
gast, the Administrator of the Government of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and
declare that from and after the twenty-third day of
November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
two, all the members of the Board of Conservators of
the Mandeville and Rangiora Drainage District then
holding office shall cease to hold office, and that on
the said twenty-third day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-two, an election of new
members of the said Board of Conservators shall be
held, as prescribed by the said Act; and I hereby
appoint

JOHN JAMES ROBINSON

to be the Returning Officer to conduct such elections.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice,
the Administrator of the Government of
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-sixth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY,
(in absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Closing certain Public Prisons.

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

Colony of
New Zealand,
to wit.
}WHEREAS by the fourth sec-
tion of "The Prisons Act,
1882," it is enacted that the Go-
vernor may, by Proclamation published in the Gazette,
declare that any prison or police gaol shall no longer
be a prison or police gaol, whenever the same has
become unfit for the purpose, or unnecessary, or for
any other reason ought to cease to be a prison or
police gaol; and upon the gazetting of such Procla-
mation, or from and after any later date fixed in such
Proclamation for the purpose, such prison or police
gaol respectively shall cease to be a prison or police
gaol:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, Adminis-
trator of the Government of the said Colony of New
Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from
and after the publication of this Proclamation in the
Gazette, the public prison adjoining the police office
and fronting Chancery Street in the City of Auck-
land, and the public prison fronting Queen Street in
the Town of Onehunga, shall cease to be public
prisons.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice,
the Administrator of the Government of
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Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-fourth day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-two.
EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

Land set apart on Deferred Payments in Westland.

(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 Westland did, on
the second day of August, one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighty-two, pass a resolution recommending
that the land described in the Schedule hereto
annexed should be set apart for sale on deferred
payments:

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, Chief Jus-
tice of the Colony of New Zealand, and Administrator
of the Government thereof, 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 Friday, the eighth
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-two, shall be the day on which the said
land shall be open for application, in allotments as
surveyed and marked on the selection map in the
principal land office of the district.

SCHEDULE.

ONE hundred and seventy acres, more or less, situated
in the Matakitaki Survey District. Bounded
towards the North by boundary of Run No. 21;
towards the East by road reserve along Copper-mine
Creek; towards the South by a straight line running
through peg 65, by-road to Waita River, and at a
right angle with said road; and towards the West by
a line 40 chains distant from and parallel with said
by-road to Waita River: exclusive of necessary roads
and reserves, and subject to existing rights under
"The Mines Act, 1877."

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice,
the Administrator of the Government of
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-fourth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!