effect throughout the Colony of New Zealand, and in all salt, fresh, and brackish waters of the said colony, and on all the shores of such waters, or on any part thereof.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS.

1. The months of November and December, 1894, are hereby prescribed as a close season for seals.

2. No person shall buy, sell, or expose for sale or have in possession any seal, or the skins, oil, or blubber of any seal, taken during the close season hereby prescribed for seals.

3. Any person committing a breach of any of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty of not less than £5 and not exceeding £500, and a further penalty of not exceeding £20 for every seal illegally taken.

4. Every penalty imposed by these regulations shall be recovered in a summary manner before any two or more Justices of the Peace.

ALEX. WILLIS,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Arundel Recreation-ground brought under "The Public Domains Act, 1881."

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of August, 1894.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

By virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, 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 reserve made for public recreation in the Canterbury Land District, and known as the Arundel Recreation-ground, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of "The Public Domains Act, 1881"; and such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 1 rood 6 perches, more or less, being Section No. 2965 (in red), Block III., Town of Arundel. Bounded on the north by Acland Street, a distance of 777.5 links; on the east by Reserve No. 2966, a distance of 500 links; on the south by Bridge Road, a distance of 938 links; and on the west by Peel Street, a distance of 525.1 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Arundel Domain Board under "The Public Domains Act, 1881."

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of August, 1894.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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 specified 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 Arundel Domain Board, namely,

WILLIAM SMITH JOHNSTON,

GEORGE HENRY PATRICK,

GEORGE HERBERT HIBBARD,

EDWARD EVANS,

HERBERT NICHOL,

JOHN COOK, and

HUGH McMASTER

(herein referred to as "the Board"), subject to the stipulations hereinafter contained, that is to say,

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the third Thursday in each month, at half-past seven o'clock p.m., at Arundel, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Thursday, the twentieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman or by any two members of the Board, provided that two days' notice of such meeting be given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

3. Any three of the said Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

4. The members of the Board shall, at their first meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be held on the third Thursday in January in every succeeding year thereafter, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.

5. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose some one of their number to be chairman of such meeting.

6. If, by resignation, death, or incapacity, or otherwise, the office of Chairman shall be or become vacant, the members may at any monthly or special meeting appoint a Chairman.

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

ALEX. WILLIS,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rural Land in the Nelson Land District open for Selection.

GLASGOW, Governor.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of "The Land Act, 1892," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four; and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892."

SCHEDULE.

Nelson Land District.--Grey County.

Weighted with the sum of £325 as valuation for improvements.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

JOHN McKENZIE,

Minister of Lands.