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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

Native Land proposed to be taken for a Road in the Horo-
whenua County.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this third day
of December, 1895.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto
are required to be taken for a public work, to wit,
the construction of a road to the cemetery at Otaki, through
Block Nine, Waitohu Survey District:
And whereas the said lands are held or occupied by Native
owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:
And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the
said lands by the Horowhenua County Council, as required
by the eighty-eighth section of "The Public Works Act,
1894":
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act,
and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this
behalf, 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 declare that the land
shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto,
shall be deemed to be taken for the purpose of the said road,
and the said land shall vest in Her Majesty as from the fourth
of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

SCHEDULE.
The several parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

| Approximate Area | Being Portions | Situated in | Situated in the | Shown on Plan | Coloured |
| of each of the | of Sections | Survey Block No. | Survey District | marked | on Plan |
| Parcels of Land | | | of | | |
| required to be | | | | | |
| taken. | | | | | |
| A. R. P. | | | | | |
| 1 0 23·7 | Unsurveyed | IX. | Waitohu | } | Purple. |
| | Native land | | | } | |
| 0 0 10 | Makirikiri | IX. | Waitohu | } | Green. |
| | No. 4 Block | | | } | |
| 0 0 18 | Mangapouri | IX. | Waitohu | } | Green. |
| | Stream | | | | |

All in the Wellington Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked as above men-
tioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands
and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District,
and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Polling-places for the City of Christchurch Electoral District
abolished and appointed.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by "The Elec-
toral Act, 1893," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby abolish
the existing polling-places for the Electoral District of City
of Christchurch, and do hereby appoint the under-mentioned
places to be polling-places for the said Electoral District of
City of Christchurch:—

The Old Provincial Council Chamber, Durham Street
(principal).
The Opera House, Tuan Street.
St. John's Schoolroom, Madras Street.
The Oddfellows' Hall, Montreal Street.
The Foresters' Hall, Vogel Street.
Hibernian Hall, Barbadoes Street.
Mission Hall, Colombo Road, Sydenham.
Public Library, Waltham Road.
The Methodist Schoolroom, Selwyn Street, Addington.
St. Albans Borough Council Office, Papanui Road.
The Mutual Improvement Hall, Knightstown.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this thirteenth day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-six.

R. J. SEDDON.
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Resignation of Minister of Justice, &c., and Member of
Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th January, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept
the resignation by
The Honourable WILLIAM PEMBER REEVES
as Minister of Justice, Minister of Education, Minister of
Labour, and Commissioner of Stamp Duties, and as Member
of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand,
dating from 10th January, 1896.

R. J. SEDDON,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Agent-General for New Zealand appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th January, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been
pleased to appoint
The Honourable WILLIAM PEMBER REEVES
to be the Agent-General for New Zealand in the United
Kingdom under "The Public Revenues Act, 1891," vice
Sir W. B. Perceval, K.C.M.G. To assume office on arrival
in London.

R. J. SEDDON,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 13th January, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point the under-mentioned gentlemen to be the
Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and
Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their
names, viz.:—

Name. District.
George John Alexander Johnstone .. .. Gisborne.
Robert McLean Baird .. .. Balclutha.
Thomas Hale .. .. .. Hokiang.
Alexander Ramsay .. .. .. Carterton.
James Heron .. .. .. Greytown.
George Scott .. .. .. Duntroon.
Horace Dixon .. .. .. Waverley.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Appointing Place of Sitting of Magistrate's Court.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th January, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point
The COURTHOUSE, Stratford,
to be a place wherein sittings of the Magistrate's Court shall
be held, in lieu of the sittings previously appointed to be
held in the Town Hall, Stratford.

R. J. SEDDON,
For the Minister of Justice.

Members of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th January, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point
ERNEST S. THYNNE
to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Otaki; and
WILLIAM LAIDLAW
to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Tuapeka.

R. J. SEDDON,
For the Minister of Justice.

Crown Lands Ranger, Wellington, appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 13th January, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point
HENRY PAUL KAVANAGH
to be a Ranger of Crown Lands for the Wellington Land
District.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.