Numb. 31. 493

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1891.

Native Land proposed to be taken for a Lighthouse on Stephen Island.

ONSLOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of February, 1891.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work, to wit, the construction of a lighthouse and other works in connection therewith:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners, and the title thereto is not derived from the Crown:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and the amendments thereof, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Right Honourable 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, doth hereby order that the public work hereinbefore mentioned shall and may be constructed on the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of land containing 370 acres or thereby, situated at the northern entrance to Cook Strait, and lying in a north-eastern direction from Cape Stephens, D’Urville Island, being the whole of that island commonly known as Stephen Island or Takaporewa; which said Island of Takaporewa is one of the islets enumerated in the description and delineated on the plan embodied in certificate of title No. 52, dated the 20th November, 1883, issued by the Native Land Court of New Zealand, at a Court held at Nelson, in the Provincial District of Nelson, on the said 20th November, 1883; all in the D’Urville Survey District, in the said Provincial District of Nelson: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 16720, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Clerk of Resident Magistrate’s Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th April, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable GEORGE EDWARD THOMPSON
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Port Albert, from the 16th instant, vice Thomas Inger.

W. P. REEVES.

Chairman and Member of the North Auckland Cattle Board appointed.—Notice No. 318.

Head Office, Live-stock Department,
Wellington, 28th April, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS MORRIN to be Chairman, and
WILLIAM MCLAUCLIN (vice J. May, deceased) to be a Member,
of the North Auckland Cattle Board, under “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1881.”

JOHN MCKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Commanding Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 28th April, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Major STUART NEWALL,
New Zealand Militia, to command the Wellington, Wairarapa, Wanganui, and Taranaki Volunteer Districts.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
For the Minister of Defence.

President of Central Board of Officers for Examination of Candidates for Commissions in New Zealand Militia and Volunteer Forces appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 28th April, 1891.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Major STUART NEWALL,
New Zealand Militia, Commanding Wellington Volunteer District, President of the Central Board of Officers at Wel-