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 Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued, under the Seal of the
said Colony, at Wellington, this nineteenth
day of August, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.

W. GISBORNE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, 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 Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth
day of August, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.

W. GISBORNE.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, No 48, August 28, 1871.)

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Otago Hundreds Regulation Act 1869,” it is enacted that, subject to
the provisions of the said Act contained, it shall
be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to
constitute into a Hundred any portion of the Waste
Lands of the Crown, within the Province of Otago,
not forming part of any Hundred for the time being
existing, notwithstanding that such lands or any part
thereof shall be comprised within any pastoral lease
or license theretofore or thereafter to be granted by
the Crown under any law regulating the occupation
or disposal of Waste Lands of the Crown, and
whether or not the same shall have been included
within the boundaries of any proclaimed goldfield:
And whereas by “The Otago Hundreds Regulation
Act 1869 Amendment Act 1870,” it is enacted that
no Hundred shall thereafter be proclaimed in the
Province of Otago unless one third part at least of
the area thereof shall be determined under the provisions
of the said “Otago Hundreds Regulation Act
1869,” to be land available for agricultural purposes,
and that no Hundred shall exceed twenty thousand
acres in extent, and that, in determining the boundaries
of all Hundreds thereafter proclaimed, due
regard shall be paid to the natural features of the
country over which any such Hundred is to be
proclaimed:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance
and exercise of all powers and authorities in me vested,
do hereby constitute and proclaim that district or portion of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the
Province of Otago, not forming part of any existing
Hundred, particularly described in the Schedule hereto,
to be a Hundred under and subject to the provisions of
the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

Waiarika Hundred comprises all that area in the
Province of Otago, containing by estimation five thousand
eight hundred (5,800) acres, more or less, situate
in the South-eastern Pastoral District, being part of
original Run numbered 67 on the map of the said
district, bounded towards the north by Run 131,
twenty-one thousand (21,000) links; towards the east
by Run 132, twenty-five thousand (25,000) links;
towards the south by Runs numbered respectively 132
and 66, twenty-seven thousand (27,000) links; and
towards the west by the Tuturau Hundred, thirty-six
thousand (36,000) links; be all the aforesaid linkages
more or less.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th August, 1871.

ENQUIRIES having been made respecting William
Henry Paice, description of whom is given
below, any one who can give any information relative
to him is requested to communicate with this office.

G. S. COOPER,
Under Secretary.

William Henry Paice was 37 years of age on 7th
December, 1870, and was then unmarried. He is of
dark complexion, and has black hair. He sailed from
Liverpool, and prior to his coming to New Zealand
resided at the Bear and Ragged Staff Inn, at Michelmersh,
near Romsey, in Hampshire, England. He
had served in the Marine Artillery, from which he had
bought his discharge. He was last heard of at New
Plymouth, in October, 1865, by letter dated 28th of
that month.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch),
Wellington, 23rd August, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

John Cole Chapple, Esq.,
Mayor of Alexandra, and

James Taylor, Esq.,
Mayor of Cromwell, to be Justices of the Peace for
the Colony, under “The Otago Municipal Corporations
Empowering Act 1865.”

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch),
Wellington, 24th August, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

Edgar Hall Carew, Esq.,
of Blacks, Otago, to be a Justice of the Peace for
the Colony.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch),
Wellington, 24th August, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

Edgar Hall Carew, Esq., J.P.,
of Blacks, Otago, to be a Resident Magistrate for the
District of Otago Gold Fields, under “The Resident
Magistrate’s Act 1867,” and as such to exercise
extended jurisdiction to £50.

W. GISBORNE.