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General Government. It is highly satisfactory to find that you have been able to dispose so readily of the business of the Session. I have frequently expressed the opinion that the average duration of the annual Session of a Provincial Council need not be protracted.

It is, I believe, most important to aim at simplicity in form and promptness of action in the administration of your Provincial institutions.

I now declare this Council to be prorogued.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Esquire, C.M.G., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation dated the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, a certain block of land containing ten thousand (10,000) acres and situated in the township of Fitzherbert, in the Manawatu district in the province of Wellington, was reserved and set apart for sale on deferred payments under the provisions of part 1 of "The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871," And whereas by "The Wellington Special Settlements Act, Amendment Act, 1874," the Superintendent for the time being of the said Province is empowered to withdraw any block or blocks of land that may have been so reserved and set apart for sale as aforesaid, from the operation of the first part of "The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871;"

Now therefore I, William Fitzherbert, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, do hereby in pursuance of the power vested in me by the said above recited Amendment Act, proclaim and notify that the said block of land in the township of Fitzherbert, in the Manawatu district, and which is fully set forth and described in the Schedule hereto, is hereby withdrawn from the operation of the first part of "The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871."

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this 18th day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Countersigned,
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

10,000 acres, in the township of Fitzherbert, Manawatu district, bounded towards the north-east, by land purchased by Colonel Feilding; towards the north-west, by the Manawatu river; towards the south-west, by the Kahuterawa stream; and towards the south-east, by a line commencing at a point where the north-west boundary of section number 112 touches the Kahuterawa stream, and running on a bearing of 34° magnetic, until it intersects the boundary of land purchased by Colonel Feilding.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor William Fitzherbert, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by the third section of the Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand shortly intituled "The Highway Boards Empowering Act, 1871," it is enacted that the Superintendent of any Province upon the recommendation of the Provincial Council, may from time to time by Proclamation declare that any or all of the parts of the said Act numbered two, three, four, five, six, and seven, shall intend and apply to any Highway District constituted or to be constituted, by or under any Provincial Act heretofore or hereafter to be passed, or the inhabitants, ratepayers, or governing body of any such district as the case may require, and upon such day as shall be fixed in and by any such Proclamation, the part or parts therein specified, shall be in force in and as to such Highway District or with regard to the inhabitants, ratepayers, or governing body of such district as the case may require:

And whereas the Provincial Council, of the Province of Wellington did, on Thursday the 6th day of May, 1875, agree to the following resolution, viz:—

"That this Council hereby recommends the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, by Proclamation to be issued by him, with the advice and consent of his Executive Council for the time being, to declare that all the parts of "The Highway Boards Empowering Act, 1871," numbered two, three, four, five, six, and seven shall extend and apply to all the Highway Districts, constituted or proclaimed or which may be hereafter proclaimed under "The Highways Act, 1874," and to the inhabitants, ratepayers, and governing body of each such district, upon such day as shall be fixed in and by such Proclamation:"

Now therefore I, William Fitzherbert, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the