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the said Waste Lands Board, and shall be published in The County of Westland Gazette at least two calendar months before such sale shall take place.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the County of Westland, containing twenty-six acres, more or less, situate near the Town of Hokitika; bounded on the South by the Hokitika River, and on the West, North, and East by an overflow channel,—for a Cricket Ground.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 34, of the 29th May, 1873.]

Land taken for a Public Road under "The Public Works Lands Act, 1864."

G. A. ARNEY, Officer Administering the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of May, 1873.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Public Works Lands Act, 1864," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, to order that any public work to be defined in such Order shall be made, and that after the publication of such Order in the Government "Gazette," the Governor may compulsorily take and permanently hold all such lands as may be necessary for the construction of such public work under the provisions in the said Act contained:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Alfred Arney, the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in that behalf vested in him, order that the public work hereinafter defined shall be made; that is to say, that a Public Road shall be laid out and made over the parcel of land described by the boundaries specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
Description of Land required to be taken under "The Public Works Lands Act, 1864."

All that parcel of land, containing by measurement one acre and four perches, more or less, situate in the Arahura District, being portion of Lot 26, Native Reserve No. 30, in the County of Westland, commencing at the North-east corner of the said Lot 26, thence southerly along the west boundary, 150 links; thence following a line bearing 116° magnetic, a distance of 470 links; thence following a line bearing 96° magnetic, a distance of 436 links, to east boundary; thence northerly along east boundary, 22 links, to North-east corner; and thence westerly along North boundary to the commencing point.

DONALD McLEAN,
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 65, of the 12th of December, 1872.]

Regulations for the Conduct of Immigration to New Zealand, on the Nomination of Immigrants by Persons Resident therein.

ONE. The Immigration Regulations and Forms of Application may be obtained at any Post Office or Immigration Office in the Colony; but applications and payments for passages are only to be made to Money Order Post Offices or to the Immigration Officer at the capital town of each Province or County.

2. Any person resident in the Colony, desirous of nominating relatives or friends in Europe for passages to New Zealand, may do so by paying at any Money Order Post Office or to the Immigration Officers aforesaid the sum of £4 for each adult (except single women) between 50 and 12 years of age, and £2 for each child under twelve years of age. Infants under one year, free. In certain cases, bills will be taken in lieu of cash payments, and passages will be provided for persons over fifty years of age. (See clause 6.)

Widows with families are, as a rule, not eligible, and applications for passages in their behalf are only to be made to the Immigration Officers aforesaid. (See clause 6.)

3. Free passages will be granted to girls of 12 years of age and upwards accompanying their parents, and to single women between the ages of 16 and 35, provided they are able to produce proof of good character to the satisfaction of the Agent-General in London; and a gratuity of 10s. will be paid by the Agent-General to heads of families emigrating under these Regulations for every such.