JULY 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1295

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation on the eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

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 twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

J. G. WARD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Districts constituted under “The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1875.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in the Governor by “The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1875,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing registration districts known as the Hunterville, Napier, and Wanganui Districts, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said districts is hereby divided anew into four registration districts, the names whereof shall be the Hunterville, Mangaweka, Napier, and Wanganui Districts, and the boundaries whereof shall be coterminous with the boundaries of the marriage districts bearing the same names, as are set forth in a Proclamation of even date herewith, made under the provisions of “The Marriage Act, 1880.”

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation on the eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

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 twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

J. G. WARD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Additional Land in the Borough of Wanganui taken for the Purposes of the Waitara–Wanganui Railway.

(l.s.)

RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Waitara–Wanganui Railway to take further land in the Borough of Wanganui, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by sections twenty-eight and one hundred and sixty-seven of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Wellington; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 18928, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above.

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 twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Land set apart as a Village Settlement in the Wellington Land District.

(l.s.)

RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-sixty-eighth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the allotments of Crown land respectively described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby set apart for sale or lease as a village settlement.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

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 twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Proclaiming Rivers and Creeks in the Land District of Nelson, together with their Tributaries, to be Watercourses.

(l.s.)

RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the one-hundred-and-fifty-second section of “The Mining Act, 1891” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time, by Proclamation published in the Gazette, proclaim and declare that any watercourse shall be a watercourse into which tailings, mining débris, and waste water of every kind used in, upon, or discharged from any