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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 39

by lines, 1760 and 5141 links respectively; Northerly by a public road to commencing point, 110 links.

Be all the above areas and linkages either more or less, the lands being situate in the Provincial District of Auckland, and are more particularly delineated upon the plans marked P.W.D. 13113, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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 thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Notice under “The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883.”

(l.s.) Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is vested in certain aboriginal natives of New Zealand, 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 eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister for Native Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.

Portions of Waotu North No. 2B Block, Waikato, containing together about 28 acres, proposed to be acquired by the Crown for educational and telegraph purposes, as delineated on the plan of the said block, deposited in the Survey Office, Auckland.

Native Land taken for Portion of Wellington-Napier Railway (from 72 miles to 78 miles from Napier).

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of June, 1885.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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 Government work known as the Wellington-Napier Railway (from seventy-two to seventy-eight miles from Napier) shall and may be constructed on or through the parcels of land mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 12864, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Charges on Telegrams for Places beyond the Colony to be paid for in Cash, not in Stamps.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of June, 1885.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities in that behalf conferred upon him by “The Stamp Act, 1882,” and “The Electric Lines Act, 1884,” 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 order and declare that, from and after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, the Order in Council as to prepayment of telegrams by stamps, made at the Government House, at Wellington, on the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, shall be revoked so far as it requires the charges paid in New Zealand on telegrams addressed to places beyond the colony to be accounted for by means of stamps to be affixed by the senders of the telegrams; and doth further order and declare that the said charges shall, from and after the said first day of July, be paid for in cash by the senders of the telegrams, and stamps representing the amount of such charges shall in each instance be affixed to the relative message forms by the officers of the Telegraph Department.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

“The Education Act, 1877.”—Inspection of Schools and Standards of Education.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of June, 1885.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Education Act, 1877,” the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth make the regulations hereto annexed concerning inspection of schools and standards of education.

REGULATIONS.

1. Once in every year every public school shall be both inspected and examined by a Public School Inspector. If possible, there shall be an interval of time between the inspection and the examination. As soon as possible after the inspection the Inspector shall present an “inspection report,” and as soon as possible after the examination an “examination report.” In these regulations a year means a year counted from the 1st of January.

2. The inspection report shall relate to such topics as the following:—
   I. List of standard classes and teachers; II. Remarks on the organization, as shown under Topic I.; III. Suitability of time-tables; IV. Remarks on the methods and quality of the instruction in general or in detail; V. Order and discipline, and the tone of the school with respect to diligence, alacrity, and obedience; VI. Supervision in recess; VII. Manners