JAN. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 25

Appointing Trustees under Maori Real Estate Management Acts, 1867 and 1877.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of December, 1884.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE COLONIAL TREASURER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867" (hereinafter called "the said Act"), it is enacted that, if any title to or interest in any hereditaments shall accrue to any Maoris who or any of whom shall be infants, lunatics, or under legal disability, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, if he think fit, to order that such hereditaments, or any part thereof or interest therein, as shall to the Governor in Council be shown to belong to such infant or lunatic or other person under legal disability shall be vested in trustees, as the Governor in Council shall think fit:

And whereas by "The Maori Real Estate Management Act Amendment Act, 1877," it is provided that, in all cases in which no trustee of such estate of any infant Maori prior to the passing of the said last recited Act has been appointed, the Governor may appoint such trustee only on the recommendation of a Judge of the Native Land Court:

And whereas, in pursuance of orders bearing dates as contained in the first column of the Schedule hereto, made by the Judges named in the second column thereof, the persons named in the third column were recommended to the Governor as trustees under the said Acts on behalf of the persons named and under the disability described in the fourth column, in respect of the lands described or referred to in the fifth column:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Acts, doth hereby order that the interests and shares of the persons under disability named in the Schedule hereto in the several blocks of land referred to therein shall be and remain vested in the several persons named in the third column thereof as trustees within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Acts for the said persons respectively during the term or terms of their minority or other disability; the said parcels of land having the areas and boundaries set forth in the Crown grants, certificates of title, and memorials of ownership affecting the same, and in the record maps in the office of the Surveyor-General.

SCHEDULE.

Dates of Orders. Judges by whom made. Trustees hereby appointed. Names, Sex, and Age of Persons under Disability. Lands in respect of which Trustees are appointed.

1878. 29 March Theophilus Heale William Frederick Hale Retimana Heera, m., 10 yrs.; Merearihi Heera, f., 8 yrs. Makarika Block, Gisborne District.

" " " " Ditto Ahiateatua Block, Gisborne District.

" " " " Ditto Ahikouka No. 2 Block, Gisborne District.

" " " " Ditto Reporua Block, Gisborne District.

1883. 25 September E. W. Puckey Maika Iwikatea and Rev. Samuel Williams Te Peeti Pareihi, m., 15 yrs.; Te Roiri Pareihi, m., 6 yrs.; Aniti Pareihi, f., 10 yrs.; Makere Pareihi, f., 16 yrs.; Ruihi Pareihi, f., 13 yrs. Oero, 257 acres, Hawke's Bay.

FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Original Telegrams to be destroyed after being kept Six Months by Superintendent of Electric Lines.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of December, 1884.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE COLONIAL TREASURER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS under the provisions of "The Electric Telegraph Act, 1875," a certain regulation was made by Order in Council, bearing date the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, relating to the destruction, in a particular manner, of original telegrams after they had been kept a certain time: And whereas it is expedient to revoke such regulation:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority vested in him by "The Electric Lines Act, 1884," and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the above-recited Order in Council, and doth hereby, in lieu thereof, make the following regulation, that is to say,

All original telegrams shall be safely kept in the custody of the Superintendent of Electric Lines, at Wellington, for the space of six months from the date thereof respectively, after which period they shall be either burned or reduced to pulp by a paper-making or other machine, in either case in the presence of some person appointed from time to time in writing by the said Superintendent.

FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council.

[This Order in Council to have effect on and after the 1st instant.]

Declaring a certain Road in the County of Waipa to be a County Road.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of December, 1884.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE COLONIAL TREASURER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by "The Public Works Act, 1882," and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order that the road in the County of Waipa, described in the Schedule below, shall, on and after the date above mentioned, become a county road.

SCHEDULE.

The road from Kihikihi Township to the confiscation boundary-line at Orakau, and situated in the Parish of Puniu, Puniu Survey District; length about 2 miles and 43 chains: as the same is more particularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 12301, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council.