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a point in the last-mentioned railway reserve distant about 15 chains in a northerly direction from the south-western corner of Section 74 in the said Parish of Ahuroa: all in the Land District of Auckland: including all adjoining and intervening places, lands, reserves, roads, rivers, streams, and watercourses: as shown by a red line on the plan marked P.W.D. 18627, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

South Australia declared to be infected with Bubonic Plague.

(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of section ninety-two of “The Public Health Act, 1876,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and notify that the Colony of South Australia is infected with a disease called or known as bubonic plague, being an infectious or contagious disease highly dangerous to the health of the people.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

J. G. WARD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Setting apart Land in Marlborough for Leasing as Small Grazing-runs under “The Land Act, 1892.”

(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the one-hundred-and-seventy-second section of “The Land Act, 1892,” and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of sections one hundred and seventy-two to one hundred and eighty-six of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892,” relating to small grazing-runs.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 thirteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Powers delegated to the Kaikoura Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighth day of January, 1900.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain Order in Council, dated the ninth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, making delegation of certain powers in manner as therein appears; and doth hereby, with the like advice and consent, and in respect of the land hereinafter mentioned, delegate all the powers conferred by the said Act, except the powers under or conferred by sections five and twelve thereof, for the period of ten years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), to

THE KAIKOURA COUNTY COUNCIL,

which shall be known as the Kaikoura Domain Board (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 Saturday in each month, at half-past ten o’clock a.m., at the Courthouse, Kaikoura, 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 Saturday, the seventeenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred.

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

4. The Chairman of the Kaikoura County Council shall be the Chairman of the Board. He may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

5. The Board shall prepare and submit at each annual meeting a report of the proceedings for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of December, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister of Lands as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

6. 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.

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

And with the like advice and consent as aforesaid doth hereby also order that this delegation shall take effect in respect of the parcels of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 29 acres, more or less, being Section No. 2 of 267 of Kaikoura Suburban. Bounded towards the north and north-west by a public road, 1237, 240, 1380, and 535 links; towards the east by Section No. 1 of 267 in the said district; and towards the south and south-west by a public road, 2346 and 1081 links.

Also, all that parcel of land in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 50 acres 2 roods 37 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 346 and 349, Block X., Mount Fyffe Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by a public road fronting Section No. 286; towards the north generally by a public road, and Section No. 256, and the road fronting Section No. 203; towards the north-east by a public road; and towards the south by a road running along the sea-shore.

Also, all that parcel of land in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 3 roods 21 perches, more or less, being Section No. 2, Block X., Mount Fyffe Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 341, 505·9 links; towards the east by a public road, 351·6 links; towards the south by Section No. 340, 500 links; and towards the west by a public road, 406·4 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, Blenheim.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.