Aug. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1279

SCHEDULE.
TOWNSHIP OF SEAWARD BUSH.

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 fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Sheep Districts of Wanganui and Rangitikei constituted anew.—Notice No. 166.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by virtue of the powers conferred by the eighth section of “The Sheep Act, 1878,” the Wanganui and Rangitikei Districts were constituted and proclaimed by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four: And whereas it is expedient that the said districts should be altered in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the eighth section of “The Sheep Act, 1878,” do hereby constitute anew the Wanganui and Rangitikei Sheep Districts; and I do hereby declare that, for the purposes of the said Act, the said districts shall hereafter be as the same are described in the Schedule hereto, including in such districts all boroughs within the territorial area comprised within the external boundaries of each such district as defined in the said Schedule, although such boroughs do not actually form part of any county therein mentioned, and that such districts shall be known by the names set over each such district respectively in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

WANGANUI SHEEP DISTRICT.

COMPRISING all that part of the colony included in the Counties of Hawera, Patea, Waitotara, and so much of the Wanganui County as is not included in the Napier Subdivision of the Napier Sheep District, as such counties are at the date of this Proclamation respectively bounded and described, and excepting that portion of Wanganui County lying east of the Wangaehu River.

RANGITIKEI SHEEP DISTRICT.

Comprising all that part of the colony included in the Counties of Rangitikei, Oroua, and Manawatu, as such counties are at the date of this Proclamation respectively bounded and described, and also that portion of Wanganui County lying east of the Wangaehu River.

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 sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

JOHN BRYCE,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Declaring that Education Reserve in Southland shall be sold.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fifty-third section of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882,” and of every other power and authority enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and at the request of the School Commissioners for the Otago Provincial District, in whom the land herein described is vested, doth hereby declare that the land enumerated in the Schedule hereto, which has been reserved for educational purposes, shall be sold subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1877.”

SCHEDULE.

PART of Section No. 242, Hokonui, being the surveyed Township of Balfour.

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 nineteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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 Zealand, 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 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 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 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 seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

JOHN BRYCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land situated in the Parish of Waiotahi, containing 20 acres, more or less, being Allotment No. 357, and being the whole of the land comprised in grant from the Crown entered in Vol. xviii., folio 123, of the Register-book.

All that piece of land situated in the Parish of Waiotahi, containing 21 acres and 20 perches, more or less, being Allotment No. 378, and being the whole of the land comprised in grant from the Crown entered in Vol. xviii., folio 188, of the Register-book,