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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 twenty-second day of April, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Setting apart Land in the Southland Land District for
leasing under “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act,
1882.”

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

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in him by the second 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, doth hereby declare that the sections of land enume-
rated in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the pro-
visions of sections three to forty-eight of “The Land Act
1877 Amendment Act, 1882.”

SCHEDULE.

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 twenty-second day of April, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

NOTE.—This Proclamation will supersede that of the 30th
December, 1884, and published in Gazette No. 2, of the 8th
January, 1885.

Setting apart Land in the Wellington Land District for
leasing under “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act,
1882.”

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

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the second section of “The
Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882,” and of every other
power and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, 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, do hereby declare
that the sections of land enumerated in the Schedule hereto
shall be subject to the provisions of sections three to forty-
eight of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882.”

SCHEDULE.

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 Wel-
lington, this twenty-second day of April, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclamation abolishing Wellington District Court District.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The District Courts Act, 1858,” it is
enacted that there shall be within the colony Courts
of Record possessing civil and criminal jurisdiction, to be
called District Courts; and the Governor is empowered from
time to time, as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the New
Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the colony, or in
any part thereof, districts within which such Courts shall be
respectively held, and such districts to abolish, and the
boundaries thereof to define and alter: And whereas by a
Proclamation bearing date the eighteenth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and published in
the New Zealand Gazette on the twentieth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, His Excellency
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance
and exercise of the powers and authorities for that purpose
vested in him, did constitute and define the district in and
by the said Proclamation described and referred to, and
named therein the Wellington District: And whereas by
a Proclamation bearing date the twelfth day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and published
in the New Zealand Gazette on the thirteenth day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, the boundaries
of the said Wellington District were altered: And whereas
it is expedient to abolish the said district: