Numb. 117.

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1883.

Districts under Weights and Measures Act defined.

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by "The Weights and Measures Act, 1868," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to appoint an Inspector of Weights and Measures for any province, or for each of two or more divi- sions of any province, the boundaries of which divisions shall be proclaimed from time to time in the New Zealand Gazette by the Governor:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the power conferred on me by the said Act, do hereby pro- claim that, from and after the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, the Provincial District of Otago shall be divided, for the purposes of the said Act, into the divisions defined in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

DUNEDIN DISTRICT.
COMPRISING the Counties of Taieri, Peninsula, Waikouaiti, and Waihemo, and all boroughs situated within the boun- daries of the said counties.

OAMARU DISTRICT.
Comprising the County of Waitaki and all boroughs situ- ated within the said county.

MILTON DISTRICT.
Comprising the Counties of Bruce and Clutha and all boroughs situated within the said counties.

LAWRENCE DISTRICT.
Comprising the County of Tuapeka and all boroughs situ- ated within the said county.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honour- able Order of the Bath, 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 Wel- lington, this second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Notice under "The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883."

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the lands described in the Schedule hereto are vested in certain aboriginal natives of New Zea- land, subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such lands, and applications have been made for the removal of such restrictions:

It is hereby notified that it is the intention of His Excel- lency the Governor, immediately after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of this notice in the Gazette and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the aliena- tion of the said lands.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honour- able Order of the Bath, 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 Wel- lington, this first day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.

JOHN BRYCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.
ALL that piece of land situated in the Parish of Waiotahi, containing one hundred and four acres, more or less, being Allotment number four, and being the whole of the land comprised in Volume xxiv., folio 137, of the Register-book.
All that piece of land situated in the County of Whakatane, containing nineteen acres and two roods, more or less, being Allotment number eight, Parish of Waiotahi, and being the whole of the land referred to in Volume xviii., folio 165, of the Register-book at Auckland.
All that piece of land situated in the County of Whakatane, containing twenty acres, more or less, being Allotment number thirteen of the Parish of Waiotahi, and being the whole of the land referred to in Volume xviii., folio 220, of the Register-book at Auckland.
All that piece of land situated in the County of Whakatane, containing twenty acres, more or less, being Allotment