Mar. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 551

Fixing Sitting of Court of Appeal.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, 1895.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Court of Appeal Act, 1882," it is enacted that the Court shall hold its sittings at such times and places as shall from time to time be fixed by the Governor in Council, and proclaimed in the Government Gazette twenty-one days at least before the times so fixed respectively:

Now, therefore, His Excellency 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 fix that a sitting of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be held within the Supreme Court House, in the City of Wellington, upon Monday, the twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extending Time for Preparation of Valuation Lists, Counties of Mackenzie and Manawatu.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, 1895.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it has been made to appear that the preparation of the valuation lists of the Counties of Mackenzie and Manawatu cannot be completed by or within the time mentioned in "The Rating Act, 1894":

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers vested in him by the said "Rating Act, 1894," and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby extend the time for completing the preparation of the valuation list of the said County of Mackenzie until the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and for completing the preparation of the valuation list of the said County of Manawatu until the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Additional Holiday: Hours of Attendance.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of March, 1895.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 7, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, regulations were made under "The Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulation Act, 1890," for the purpose, inter alia, of providing leave of absence for recreation and holidays to the officers named therein: And whereas it is expedient to revoke one of such regulations, and to provide as hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the hereinbefore-mentioned Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the regulation numbered forty-five of the said regulations, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

45. The following days in each year shall be observed as holidays:—
    (1.) New Year's Day, Christmas Day and the following day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, and the birth-days of Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales;
    (2.) Whenever any of such days falls upon a Sunday the next following Monday shall be a holiday in lieu of such day:

Provided that any post- or telegraph-office on the days aforesaid shall, in the discretion of the Minister, be open to the public for an hour or any longer time in the morning from the usual time of opening and for an hour or any longer time in the evening to be duly announced; and that, in respect of the Saturday preceding Easter Monday, any delivery of letters by any letter-carrier which on another Saturday would be made once shall be made twice on that day.

Nothing herein shall prevent the Minister from requiring the services of any officers during any such holiday in case of emergency, but in that case such officers shall be entitled, in lieu thereof, to a holiday upon such other occasion as shall not interfere with public business, and in such case no overtime shall be payable.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Warrant authorising the Borough Council of Feilding to construct a Bridge over the Kiwitea Stream, on a Deviation of the Kimbolton Road, and apportioning the Cost of the Bridge between the Borough of Feilding, the Manchester Road Board, the Kiwitea County Council, and the Pohangina County Council.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirteen of "The Public Works Act, 1894" (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), it is, inter alia, enacted that, in any case where the local authority of any district desires to construct a bridge in any position that will, in its opinion, be of advantage and benefit to the whole or any considerable portion of the inhabitants of an adjacent district or districts as well as to the inhabitants of its own district, and where it is, in the opinion of such local authority, reasonable that the local authority or local authorities of such district or districts whose inhabitants are to be so benefited should contribute to the cost of constructing or establishing the said bridge, the provisions in the said section mentioned shall have effect:

And whereas the Borough Council of Feilding has made application to the Governor to authorise the construction of the work mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and to apportion the cost of constructing the said work between the said Council and the Manchester Road Board, Kiwitea County Council, and Pohangina County Council:

And whereas the Borough Council of Feilding prepared plans, specifications, and estimates of the work and sent a copy of same to the offices of the Manchester Road Board, Kiwitea County Council, and Pohangina Road Board (the district of which last-named Board has now become the Pohangina County), and to the Minister for Public Works, together with a notice as required by the hereinbefore in part recited Act:

And whereas, the Pohangina County Council and the Kiwitea County Council having lodged objections to the said bridge being constructed, a Commissioner was appointed to inquire into and report on the matter, in terms of the herein-before in part recited Act:

And whereas the said Commissioner has reported that he is of opinion that the said work should be constructed by the Borough Council of Feilding, and that the cost of constructing the said work should be borne in the proportions hereinafter set forth to be borne by the said Council and the said Manchester Road Board, Kiwitea County Council, and Pohangina County Council:

And whereas the Governor is of opinion that the work should be done:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby authorise the Borough Council of Feilding to construct the said work; and I do hereby declare that a proportion of eight-sixteenths of the cost of constructing the said work shall be borne by the Borough Council of Feilding, a proportion of four-sixteenths shall be borne by the Manchester Road Board, a proportion of three-sixteenths shall be borne by the Kiwitea County Council, and a proportion of one-sixteenth shall be borne by the Pohangina County Council.

SCHEDULE.

The bridge over the Kiwitea River known as the Kiwitea Bridge, situated on the deviation of the Kimbolton Road, in the Borough of Feilding, and the approaches on each side thereof extending through Suburban Sections Nos. 121, 122, 123, 124, Feilding, and 1B Block, Subdivision D, of the Manchester Block, as the site of the said bridge, with approaches, is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 23772, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon marked in red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.