for a part only, to reduce the rent payable by the lessee proportionably, provided that a lessee shall not be entitled to make such surrender in part more than twice during the currency of the lease.

And whereas, by the one hundred and ninth section of the said Act, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council under his hand and the public seal of the Colony, from time to time, to delegate to such person as the Governor may think fit all or any of the powers vested in the Governor by the said Act, except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven thereof, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit:

And whereas, by an instrument in writing, dated the twenty-seventh day of January, 1871, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the seventh day of March, 1871, His Excellency the Governor did, under his hand and the public seal of the Colony, delegate unto me, Henry Hermann Lahman, Chairman of the County Council of Westland, all the powers vested in the Governor under or by virtue of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” and “The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1869,” except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” to have, hold, and exercise the said powers hereby delegated to me, the said Henry Hermann Lahman, within the County of Westland:

Now therefore, I, Henry Hermann Lahman, Chairman of the County Council of Westland, in exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf, do hereby notify that I accept from the Morning Star Gold Mining Company, Ross, a surrender of one acre, one rood and twenty perches, and do hereby reduce the rent payable by the aforesaid Company to fifteen pounds nine shillings and fourpence.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

H. H. LAHMAN.

[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 49, of the 5th of September, 1871.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS on the fourteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in pursuance of the powers then vested in the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand by the regulations contained in the schedule to a certain Proclamation made by him, and dated the seventeenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, certain days were appointed to be the days on which the Waste Lands Board of the County of Westland should sit at the principal Land Office of the said County in the Town of Hokitika: And whereas by “The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870,” it is among other things enacted that the principal Land Office of the said County shall be kept at the Town of Hokitika, and the Waste Lands Board shall sit there, and at certain stated times to be determined from time to time by the Governor, as he may think fit:

And whereas, it is expedient to appoint other days for the sitting of the said Board in lieu of those so appointed as aforesaid:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority vested in me in that behalf by “The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870,” do hereby fix and determine that sittings of the Waste Lands Board for the County of Westland shall be held at the Land Office in the Town of Hokitika, on the first and third Tuesdays in every month, at the hour of noon, and that the first of such sittings shall be held on Tuesday, the nineteenth day of September next.

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, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 49, of the 5th of September 1871.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by “The Weights and Measures Act, 1868,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time