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of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron
Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and
of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron
Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George; Governor and Com-
mander-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 Auckland, this third day
of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety.

THOS. FERGUS.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Regulations under “The Mining Act, 1886,” for Puhipuhi Mining District.

(L.S.) ONSLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities
conferred by section two hundred and seventy-four of
“The Mining Act, 1886,” and of all other powers enabling
him in this behalf, His Excellency the Right Honourable
William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, doth hereby make the regulations set forth
in the Schedule hereto for the Puhipuhi Mining District;
and doth hereby order and declare that such regulations
shall come into force on the sixth day of March instant, and
within the said district shall supersede any general regula-
tions at variance herewith.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR PUHIPUHI MINING DISTRICT.

1. Every holder of a claim or licensed holding within the
   Puhipuhi Mining District shall be entitled to cut and use
   for mining purposes without charge all timber other than
   kauri or totara growing within the limits of area of his claim
   or licensed holding.

2. Every holder of a claim or licensed holding within the
   said district requiring kauri or totara timber shall apply in
   writing to the Warden for the district, or his agent specially
   authorised for that purpose, who, on payment of 1s. a hundred
   superficial feet for kauri, and 1s. 6d. for totara, shall grant
   permission in writing to cut the same; but the minimum
   price to be paid for each tree shall be not less than £1 5s.
   The right to sell or take any timber growing on the area
   included in any claim or licensed holding shall remain with
   the Warden.

3. Every holder of a claim or licensed holding in the said
   district shall be held responsible and shall pay for any kauri
   or totara trees which may be destroyed by fire originating
   through the wilful act, carelessness, or negligence of any
   such holder of a claim or licensed holding respectively.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of
Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley,
of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron
Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and
of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron
Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George; Governor and Com-
mander-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 Auckland, this third day
of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety.

THOS. FERGUS,
Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Class-books for Public Schools.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of February 1890.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING 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 regulation hereto
annexed, approving of class-books for public schools; and,
with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this
order shall take effect from the date hereof,

REGULATION.

THE copy-books entitled “Southern Cross Copy-books ”
(Whitcombe and Tombs, Limited, Christchurch) may be
used in any public school as if they had been described and
included in the list of works set forth in the Order in Council
dated the 5th day of July, 1887.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Levin Recreation-grounds brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of February, 1890.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by
the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves
Act, 1881,” I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, 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 order and declare that the reserves made for public
recreation in the Land District of Wellington, and known
as the Levin Recreation-grounds, and described in the
Schedule hereto, shall be and the same are hereby brought
under the operation of and declared to be subject to
the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881;” and
such domains shall hereafter be managed, administered, and
dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Land District of Wellington,
containing by admeasurement 41 acres 1 rood 3 perches,
more or less, being Rural Section No. 21, Block I., Waiopenu
Survey District. Bounded on the north-east by Horowhenua
Road West; on the south-east by Section No. 22; on the
south-west by Section No. 22; and on the north-west by
Subdivision No. 11, Horowhenua Block.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Wellington,
containing by admeasurement 11 acres, more or less, being
Suburban Section No. 24, Township of Levin. Bounded on
the north-east by Horowhenua Road West; on the south-
east by Salisbury Street; on the south-west by Bath Street;
and on the north-west by Weraroa Road.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Levin Domain Board under
“The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of February, 1890.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the twelfth section of “The Public
Domains Act, 1881,” it is, inter alia, enacted that
the Governor, by Order in Council, may from time to time
delegate all or any of the powers by the said Act conferred,
save as is therein mentioned, to any person or persons for
any period, and subject to such stipulations as may be speci-
fied in such order, and that every such delegation may from
time to time in like manner be altered or revoked: And
whereas, pursuant to “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” by
an Order in Council of even date herewith, the land described
in the Schedule thereto is declared to be brought under the
operation of and to be subject to the provisions of the said
“Public Domains Act, 1881:”

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony of New Zealand, doth, by this present order, delegate
all the powers conferred by the Act first above mentioned,
except the powers under or conferred by sections five and
twelve, to the under-mentioned persons, who shall be known
as the Levin Domain Board, namely,--

JOHN DAVIES,
FREDERICK JONATHAN STUCKEY,
JOHN RODERICK McDONALD,
FREDERICK GRAHAM ANDREWS, and
JOHN KEBBELL

(herein referred to as “the Board”), subject to the stipula-
tions hereinafter contained, that is to say,--

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on
   the third Thursday in each month, at eight o'clock p.m.,
   at Levin, or at such other time or place as may from time
   to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be