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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

Resuming Possession of Part of Section No. 51, Block II., Blackstone Survey District, for the Purpose of widening the Road.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and fifty-eighth section of “The Land Act, 1885,” I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby resume possession of the land described in the Schedule hereto for the purpose of widening the road fronting the said land.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods 10 perches or thereabouts, being portion of Section No. 51, Block II., Blackstone Survey District, in the Land District of Otago, being a strip of land, 50 links wide, running along the entire length of the southern side of the said section; as the said land is more particularly delineated on the plan in the Survey Office, Dunedin.

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 September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

ROBERT STOUT,
(For the Minister of Lands.)

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Abolishing the Christchurch 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 Christchurch District: And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, the boundaries of the said Christchurch District were altered: And whereas it is expedient to abolish the said district:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that

THE CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT,

under “The District Courts Act, 1858,” as the same is described or referred to in the said Proclamations of the eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, shall be and remain abolished from and after the first day of October next.

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 September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

Jos. A. TOLE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Abolishing the Dunedin 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 twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, 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 Dunedin District: And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, the boundaries of the said Dunedin District were altered: And whereas it is expedient to abolish the said district:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that

THE DUNEDIN DISTRICT,

under “The District Courts Act, 1858,” as the same is described or referred to in the said Proclamations of the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, and the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, shall be and remain abolished from and after the first day of October next.

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 September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

Jos. A. TOLE.

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