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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25

Lands taken for a Drain in the Muhunga Block, Waimata
Survey District.

(L.S.)
GLASGOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto
are required to be taken, under "The Public Works
Act, 1894," for a certain work, to wit, the construction of a
drain in the Muhunga Block, Waimata Survey District, in
the County of Cook:
And whereas the Cook County Council has laid before the
Governor the memorial, accompanied by a map, and also
the statutory declaration, required by the said Act:
Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of
the powers and authorities in me vested by "The Public
Works Act, 1894," and of every other power and authority
in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim
and declare that, from and after the date of the publication
hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the lands mentioned in
the Schedule hereto are hereby taken for the purposes of the
construction of the said drain.

SCHEDULE.
The several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder :—

As the said areas are delineated upon the plan marked as
above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office of the De-
partment of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the
Wellington Land District, and thereon edged with colours
as above stated.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight
Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of
Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies;
and issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at the Government House, at Wellington, this
second day of April, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Military District abolished and reconstituted.

(L.S.)
GLASGOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation bearing date the six-
teenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-five, issued under the provisions of "The De-
fence Act, 1886," the colony was divided into the districts
specified in the Schedule to such Proclamation: And
whereas it is expedient to abolish the Otago District as
described in the said Proclamation, and to constitute in lieu
thereof the two districts hereinafter set forth: Now, there-
fore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers
and authorities conferred on me by the said Act, do hereby
abolish the said Otago District, as constituted by the here-
inbefore-recited Proclamation, and in lieu thereof and for
the purposes of the said Act do hereby constitute, as and
from the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-six, the two districts described in the Schedule
hereto; and do hereby declare that each of such districts
shall be called and known by the name set opposite the
description thereof in the said Schedule. And I do hereby
declare that so much of the said recited Proclamation as
refers to the constitution of the said Otago District is here-
by revoked as and from the date last aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

Description of District. Name of District.

4. Otago District (including North
   Otago, Oamaru, and Dunedin).
   Bounded on the north by the Waitaki
   River; on the east by the sea from
   that river to the mouth of the Clutha
   River; on the south-west by that river
   and the Pomahaka River to the junc-
   tion of the Pomahaka and Waipahi
   Rivers, and thence by the railway-line
   to Kelso from Waipahi; on the west
   and north-west by a line joining Kelso
   and a point sixty miles inland from the
   mouth of the Waitaki River. Otago.

4a. Southland District.
Bounded on the south by the sea; on
the west by Jacob's River to its junc-
tion with the Aparima River; on the
north by a line drawn from the junc-
tion of the Aparima and Jacob's Rivers
to Kelso; and on the north-east and east
by the south-west boundary of Otago
District. Southland.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight
Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of
Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies;
and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at
the Government House, at Auckland, this second
day of April, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and ninety-six.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Defence.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
fifth day of March, 1896.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of "The Native Land
Court Act, 1894," it is enacted that the Native Land
Court shall, as regards all lands within the meaning of sub-
section ten of section fourteen aforesaid, have jurisdiction as
in the said subsection mentioned, provided that the Court
shall not proceed to exercise such jurisdiction unless the
Governor in Council shall by order authorise the same to be
done: And whereas the land specified in the Schedule
hereto is land in respect whereof the Court has jurisdiction
as aforesaid, and it is expedient that the Court should be
authorised to exercise the same:
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
authorise the said Court to exercise in respect of the said
land the jurisdiction conferred as aforesaid, that is to say, to
determine whether or not the said land or any part thereof
was, on the investigation of title thereto, intended by the
Native Land Court, or by the nominal owner or owners of
such land, to be held by such nominal owner or owners in
trust for Natives not named in the title, and to determine
who are the Natives, if any, entitled beneficially to such land,
and to order the inclusion of such Natives in the title either
together with or in lieu of the nominal owners or any of
them; and for the purposes aforesaid to order the cancella-
tion or amendment of any existing instrument of title, and
the issue of such new Crown grants or other instruments of
title as may be necessary; and generally to exercise in
respect of the said land all the jurisdiction and powers con-
ferred on the Native Land Court by subsection ten of section
fourteen of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894."

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land situated in the Chatham Islands,
and known as Kekerione 1w, containing 81 acres 2 roods
14 perches, more or less.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.