TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th August, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified for general information, that, in consequence of no application having been made in response to the notification inserted in the New Zealand Gazette on the 29th November, 1870 (Volume for 1870, page 614), the last Naval Cadetship intended for New Zealand lapsed.

The next nomination for this Colony will be in 1874, and must be notified to the Secretary of State for the Colonies during the first quarter of that year. (See Despatch from the Colonial Office of August 26, 1870, in the Gazette quoted above).

Timely notice is again given that all applications for the nomination of 1874 should be addressed to the Colonial Secretary, at Wellington, on or before the 1st October, 1873. His Excellency the Governor will select the best-qualified candidate among the applicants according to the result of a competitive examination. The subjects of examination, the conditions of age, and all other necessary information, will be found in the New Zealand Gazette for 1870, pages 118, 375, 409, and 614. The certificates of birth, education, sound health, &c., required by the Admiralty Regulations must accompany each application.

W. GISborne.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of July, 1872.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council made on the 17th day of July, 1872, in pursuance of the powers enabling the Governor in that behalf by the New Zealand Settlements Acts, it was ordered that certain sections in the Township of Opunake should be sold as set forth in the Schedule thereto: And whereas in the Order in Council the Schedule above referred to has been erroneously stated:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby revoke the said Order in Council of the 17th day of July, 1872, so far as relates to the matters cited in the said Schedule; and doth hereby order that the said sections shall and may be sold to the person and to the Flax Company respectively, and at the prices specified in the Schedule hereto; and that John Stephenson Smith, Esquire, the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Province of Taranaki, shall and may conduct the said sale.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE.

OPUNAKE TOWNSHIP.

(L.S.) G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1871,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor, by Proclamation to be published in the New Zealand Gazette, may from time to time establish and define such and so many districts as he shall think fit to be districts, under the said Act, and to each such district there shall, in the Proclamation defining it, be attached such name as the Governor shall think fit, and by which name it shall thereafter be called, and that every such district may from time to time in like manner be altered or constituted anew in such manner as the Governor may think fit:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand aforesaid, in pursuance and exercise of the above recited power and authority, do hereby define all that tract of country comprising Mokau to Hangatahua or Stoney River, Hangatahua to Waingongoro, Waingongoro to boundary line between Wellington and Taranaki, as and to be a District under and for the purposes of “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1871,” and in further pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the said Act, I do hereby attach to the said district the name of “The Taranaki District;” and lastly, I do hereby declare