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subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such land, and application has been made for the removal of such restrictions:

It is hereby notified that it is the intention of His Excellency 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 alienation of the said land.

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 Honourable 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 Wellington, this eleventh day of *February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

JOHN BRYCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.

ALLOTMENTS Nos. 14 and 28 of the Parish of Matata, containing respectively 1,660 acres and 1,160 acres, as delineated on plans of the Bay of Plenty District, deposited in the Survey Offices at Tauranga, Auckland, and Wellington.

Fixing Shooting Season for Native and Imported Game, License Fee, &c., Cook District.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and “The Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, 1881,” I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that cock-pheasants may be taken or killed within the Cook District, consisting of the County of Cook, from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, both inclusive (subject nevertheless to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each, and that licenses to sell such game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Chief Postmaster at Gisborne is hereby appointed to issue the said licenses. And I do further notify that native game (excepting tuis) may be taken or killed within the said district from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, both inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

THOMAS DICK.

Fixing Shooting Season for Native and Imported Game, License Fee, &c., Taranaki District.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and “The Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, 1881,” I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that cock-pheasants may be taken or killed within the Taranaki District, consisting of the County of Taranaki, from the fourteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, both inclusive (subject nevertheless to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty-five shillings each, and that licenses to sell such game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Chief Postmaster at New Plymouth is hereby appointed to issue the said licenses. And I do further notify that native game (excepting tuis) may be taken or killed within the said district from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, both inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

THOMAS DICK.

Fixing Shooting Season for Native and Imported Game, License Fee, &c., North Canterbury District.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and “The Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, 1881,” I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that hares may be taken or killed within the North Canterbury District, comprising the Counties of Amuri, Kaikoura, Cheviot, Ashley, Akaroa, Selwyn, and Ashburton, from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, both inclusive; and that cock-pheasants and quail may be taken or killed within the said North Canterbury District from the first day of June to the thirty-first day of July, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill hares, cock-pheasants, and quail within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of thirty shillings each, and that licenses to sell such game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Chief Postmaster at Christchurch is hereby appointed to issue the said licenses. And I do further notify that native game (excepting native pigeons and tuis) shall be taken or killed within the said district from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, both inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

THOMAS DICK.

Fixing Shooting Season for Native and Imported Game, License Fee, &c., Southland District.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and “The Animals Protection Act Amendment Act, 1881,” I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that hares may be taken or killed within the Southland District, consisting of so much of the County of Southland as lies to the westward of the Mataura River, together with the Counties of Fiord, Wallace, and Stewart Island, from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, both inclusive (subject nevertheless to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of thirty shillings each, and that licenses to sell such game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Chief Postmaster at Invercargill is hereby appointed to issue the said licenses. And I do further notify that native game (excepting tuis) may be taken or killed within the said district between the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, both inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

THOMAS DICK.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th March, 1883.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

PAUL CURTIS

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Sanson.

THOMAS DICK.

Licensing Committee for Special Licensing District appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st April, 1884.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

MAJOR ARTHUR TUKE,
WILLIAM DUNCAN, Esq., J.P., and
HONE TE ONE

to be the Licensing Committee for the Special Licensing District of Kawhia.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY.