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this office by the several Town Clerks as the
names of those who have been elected Mayors
for the Boroughs set opposite their
names, viz:—
WILLIAM TODD, Esq., Hokitika;
WILLIAM SIMPSON SMITH, Esq. Grey-
mouth.
WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS,
(in absence of Colonial Secretary.)

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No.
1, of the 8th January, 1874.]

Warrant appointing Receiver of Gold Revenue.

Treasury,
Wellington, January 2, 1874.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
ALEXANDER BURROWES
to be receiver of Gold Revenue at Okarito,
in the Province of Westland.
This appointment to date from the 24th
December, 1873.
JOHN BATHGATE,
(in absence of Colonial Secretary.)

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No.
1, of the 8th January, 1874.]

Warrant appointing Receiver of Gold Revenue.

Treasury,
Wellington, January 2, 1874.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
THOMAS SUGRUE
to be Receiver of Gold Revenue at Haast, in
the Province of Westland.
This appointment to date from the 24th
December, 1873.
JOHN BATHGATE,
(in absence of Colonial Secretary.)

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No.
68, of the 27th of November, 1873.]

Block of land set apart for the Purposes of
"The Westland Loan Act, 1873."

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Westland Loan
Act, 1873," it is, among other things
enacted that a block or blocks of waste lands
of the Crown, in the County of Westland, not
exceeding in the whole two hundred and
fifty thousand acres, shall, in the manner
therein provided, be set aside as a special
security, as between the Colony and the
County of Westland, for the loan by the said
Act authorised: And by the said Act it is
also enacted that the land so to be set aside
shall be such as shall be agreed on between the
Governor and the Chairman of the County
Council of the said County, and shall be of
fair average value, and in one block or more
blocks than one; and if in several blocks, of
blocks of not less than fifty thousand acres
each: And it is by the said Act further
enacted, that such lands, when selected and
agreed upon, shall, by Proclamation by the
Governor in Council published in the New
Zealand Gazette, be declared to be set aside
for the purposes of the said Act: And
whereas the block of land described in the
Schedule hereto has been selected out of the
waste lands of the Crown in the said County,
and has been agreed on between the Governor
and the Chairman of the County Council of
the said County as the land to be set aside
for the purposes of the said Act:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zea'and, in pursuance and exercise of
the powers and authority vested in me by
the said in part recited Act, and by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Colony, do hereby pro-
claim and declare that the block of land des-
cribed in the Schedule hereto shall be and
the same is hereby set aside for the purposes
of "The Westland Loan Act, 1873."

JULIUS VOGEL.

SCHEDULE.

A block of land not exceeding in the whole
two hundred and fifty-thousand acres, situated
and being within the following boundaries,
viz.:—On the North the Waitaha River; on
the South the Waitaroha River; on the East
the boundary of the County; on the West
the coast line.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a
Member of Her Majesty's Most Hon-
ourable Privy Council, the Governor
of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of
the same, at Christchurch; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony,
this twenty-fourth day of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.