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30A to the Mangaone River; thence along said river to the north-east corner of Section No. 21, Block III.; thence along north-eastern boundary of said section and of Section No. 8, Block VII., Mangaone Survey District; towards the east by the south boundary of Section No. 8 aforesaid, the eastern and part of the southern boundary of Section No. 9, the east boundary of Sections Nos. 11, 14, 17, 20, part of northern boundary of Section No. 25, the north-east boundary of Section No. 26, the centre of a public road, the eastern boundary of Section No. 39, Block VII., and of Section No. 6, Block XI., produced to meet the centre of a public road; towards the south by the centre of a public road bounding the Sections Nos. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1, Block XI., of Sections Nos. 35, 34, 33, Block VII., of Sections Nos. 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, and 28, across a public road, and along the centre of a road forming boundary of Sections Nos. 37, 38, 39, 40, and part of 13, Block VI., to railway-line; thence across said railway-line and along its western boundary through Sections 12 and 11, Block X., to the south boundary of the last-named section; thence along the said boundary across the main coach-road to the centre of the Makakahi River; towards the west by the centre of the Makakahi River to the starting-point.

That No. 3 Ward be bounded towards the north by the southern boundary of No. 1 Ward; towards the east and south-east by the centre of the Makakahi River from the south-east corner of Section No. 75, Block VII., Mangaone Survey District, to the south-east corner of Section No. 21, Block XIV., Tararua Survey District; towards the south-west by the north-eastern boundary of the Mauriceville Road District.

That No. 4 Ward be bounded towards the north by the southern boundary of No. 2 Ward; towards the east by the western boundary of the Alfredton Road District; towards the south by the northern boundary of the Mauriceville Road District to the centre of the Makakahi River; towards the west by the centre of the above-mentioned river to the starting-point.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly made in accordance with the provisions of the Road Boards Act, and that the foregoing description of boundaries has been certified by the Chief Surveyor of the Wellington Land District.

W. BAYLISS,
Clerk.

Eketahuna, 31st March, 1892.

SPECIAL ORDER.—MAKAKAHI ROAD NORTH.

THAT, for the purpose of securing payment of the sum of £400, borrowed by the Board under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the purpose of bush-felling and formation on the Makakahi Road North, a special rate of 4½d. in the pound be made and levied on the following sections: Nos. 7, 8A, 9, 14A, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, and 31, Block II., Mangaone Survey District. Such rate shall be an annually-recurring rate, and shall be paid, in two half-yearly instalments, for twenty-six years, on the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each year until the debt is liquidated.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly made as by law required.

W. BAYLISS,
Clerk.

Eketahuna, 31st March, 1892.

SPECIAL ORDER.—TAWATAIA ROAD BRIDGE.

THAT, for the purpose of securing payment of the sum of £125, borrowed by the Board under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the purpose of building a bridge on the Tawataia Road, a special rate of 2½d. in the pound be made and levied on the following sections: Nos. 23 and 24, Block III., and Nos. 7 and 8, Block VII., all in the Mangaone Survey District. Such rate shall be an annually-recurring rate, and shall be paid, in two half-yearly instalments, for twenty-six years, on the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each year until the debt is liquidated.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly made as by law required.

W. BAYLISS,
Clerk.

Eketahuna, 31st March, 1892.

Despatch.—Amended Statutes of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.—As to Return of Insignia.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1892.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 8th December, 1891.

MY LORD,—With reference to the Earl of Carnarvon’s circular despatch of the 13th June, 1877, transmitting a summary of the statutes dated 30th May, 1877, of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, and to my circular despatch of the 7th September, 1887, respecting the recovery of the insignia on the decease of members within the colony under your Government, I have the honour to acquaint you that the Queen, as Sovereign and Chief of the said most distinguished order, has been graciously pleased to issue statutes of the order, dated the 24th November, 1891, repealing those provisions in the statutes of the 30th May, 1877, which ordained that persons admitted into the order should make arrangements for the return, on their decease, of the insignia or badges received by them; and altering, amending, and consolidating the several statutes of the order.

2. In enclosing for your information copies of the new statutes, I have the honour to acquaint you that it will no longer be part of the duty of Colonial Governors to obtain and transmit to the Chancery of the order the insignia of deceased members, as the insignia are for the future returnable only when the holder is promoted in, or ceases, while living, to be a member of, the order; but it is desirable that, as heretofore, the death of any member of the order within the colony under your Government should be notified for record in the Chancery of the order, and also that the decease, within the colony, of persons possessing other honorary distinctions should, as heretofore, be reported to the Secretary of State.

3. In the event of any member of any of the classes of the order ceasing to hold his rank and place as a member of the order or of his resigning his dignity, the whole of the insignia issued to him will have to be returned; and, in the event of the promotion within the order of any member of the second or third class, he will have to return to the Secretary of the order the insignia previously worn by him.

I have, &c.,

KNUTSFORD.

The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand.

Despatch.—Acknowledgments of the Sympathy displayed on the Occasion of the Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1892.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 1st February, 1892.

MY LORD,—I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Queen expressing Her Majesty’s deep sense of loyalty and affectionate sympathy evinced by her subjects in every part of her Empire on the sad occasion of the death of her grandson, His Royal Highness Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, K.G., eldest son of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.

I have also the honour to enclose a copy of a telegram, dated Windsor Castle, the 20th of January, in which their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales express to Her Majesty’s subjects, whether in the United Kingdom, in the colonies, or in India, the sense of their deep gratitude for the universal feeling of sympathy manifested towards them on the sad occasion of the loss of their beloved eldest son.

I have no doubt that both these touching documents have been already published in the colony under your Government, but I have thought it right that they should be communicated to you officially for record in the archives of the colony.

I have, &c.,

KNUTSFORD.

The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand.

Whitehall, 27th January, 1892.

THE following letter from the Queen has been received by the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the Home Department:—

Osborne, 26th January, 1892.

I must once again give expression to my deep sense of the loyalty and affectionate sympathy evinced by my subjects in every part of my Empire on an occasion more sad and tragical than any but one which has befallen me and mine, as well as the nation. The overwhelming misfortune of my dearly-loved grandson having been thus suddenly cut off in the flower of his age, full of promise for the future, amiable and gentle, and endearing himself to all, renders it hard for his sorely-stricken parents, his dear young bride, and his fond grandmother to bow in submission to the inscrutable decrees of Providence.

The sympathy of millions, which has been so touchingly and visibly expressed, is deeply gratifying at such a time,