Mar. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 297

Extending Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate's Court, Collingwood.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in
me vested in this behalf by "The Resident Magistrates
Act, 1867," I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim
and declare that, from and after the twelfth day of March
instant, the jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate's Court
for the Collingwood District, as the same is defined in a Pro-
clamation bearing date the tenth day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight, shall be extended to one
hundred pounds.

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-
ington, this second day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
eight.

THOS. FERGUS.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Defence Buildings, Point Halswell, declared a Prison.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

COLONY OF NEW ZEALAND,
TO WIT.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New
Zealand intituled "The Prisons Act, 1882," it is
provided that the Governor may, by Proclamation published
in the Gazette, declare any house, building, enclosure, or
place to be a prison; and from and after the gazetting of
any such Proclamation, or from any time later specified in
the Proclamation, such house, building, enclosure, or place
shall be deemed a prison:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of
the above-recited power and authority, do hereby declare
that the Defence Buildings at Point Halswell, in the Pro-
vincial District of Wellington, and all enclosures used or
occupied therewith, shall, from and after the publication of
this Proclamation in the Gazette, be a prison within the
meaning and for the purposes of "The Prisons Act, 1882."

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-
ington, this third day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
eight.

THOS. FERGUS,
Minister of Justice.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

*Proclaiming Melrose a Borough under "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886."

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,"
the Governor is empowered, by Proclamation, to
declare any portion of the Colony of New Zealand to be a
borough under the said Act from and after a day to be named
in such Proclamation:

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 said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the district
described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is
hereby constituted as from the date hereof a borough under
the said Act; and I do further proclaim and declare that
the name of such borough shall be the Borough of Melrose,
and that the boundaries thereof shall be those described in
the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Wellington
bounded towards the north and east, and again towards
the north and towards the west, by the Borough of
Wellington to Port Nicholson; thence again towards
the north and east generally by Port Nicholson and
the waters of Evans Bay to the western boundary-line of
Section No. 9, Block VII., Port Nicholson Survey District;
thence by said Section No. 9 and Section No. 13, Block XI.,
to Lyall Bay; thence towards the south generally by Lyall
Bay and Cook Strait to the south-western boundary-line of
Section No. 27, Block XIII.; thence towards the west by
that boundary-line and by Sections Nos. 38, 70, 7, 6, 5, 4,
and 3, Block X., by the western boundary-line of the Water-
works Reserve running through Section No. 1, Block VII.,
and by Sections Nos. 32 and 29, Block VI., Port Nicholson
Survey District, to the Borough of Wellington aforesaid.

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-
ington, this fifth day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
eight.

T. W. HISLOP.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

*Regulation under "The Companies Act, 1882."

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of February, 1888.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two hundred and thirty-seven of
"The Companies Act, 1882," it is, among other
things, enacted that the Governor in Council may make such
regulations as he thinks fit with respect to the duties to be
performed by the Registrar and any Assistant-Registrar,
officer, or clerk appointed under the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby, in exercise of the
powers vested in him as aforesaid, make the following
regulation:—

Whenever a copy of the annual list and summary men-
tioned in section thirty-six of the said Act is forwarded to
the Registrar, as therein provided, it shall be the duty of the
Registrar to note thereon the date of such receipt, and the
said list and summary shall be by him carefully kept of
record; and the Registrar shall also make and keep an
alphabetical list or index in which the fact and date of such
receipt shall be entered and recorded.

The term "Registrar" in this regulation shall extend and
apply to any Assistant-Registrar acting within a district or
districts for which he may have been appointed under the
said Act.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

*Borough Council of Wanganui to be subject to Provisions of "The Public Bodies' Powers Act, 1887."

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of February, 1888.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four of "The Public Bodies'
Powers Act, 1887" (hereinafter termed "the said
Act"), it is provided that the Governor may, by Order in