PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

Proclamation therefrom any Crown lands which he may deem necessary to withdraw, and such lands shall thenceforth be dealt with, sold, occupied and disposed of under any law or laws for the time being in force regulating the sale, occupation, or disposal of, or in any way affecting or relating to the management or dealing with, the Crown lands within the Province in which such gold field is situate, in like manner in every respect as though such lands had never been comprised in any proclaimed gold field: And whereas by Proclamations, bearing date the twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and the seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, certain lands, including the lands mentioned or described in the Schedule hereto, were under and by virtue of the said Act proclaimed, and declared to be a gold field; and whereas it is desirable and expedient to withdraw from the said gold field the lands mentioned or described in the said Schedule: Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of every power and authority enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands in the said Schedule hereto mentioned are hereby withdrawn from the said gold field.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At Wellington, this second day of February, 1874.
Present:
THE HONORABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Lunatics Act, 1868," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to order and direct that all or any of the powers, functions, duties, and authorities vested in or required to be performed by the Governor or the Governor in Council, or the Colonial Secretary, by the said Act, within any Province or other district of the Colony, shall be exercised or performed by the Superintendent of any such Province, or by any other person the Governor may think fit; and thereupon such functions, powers, duties, and authorities may, by such Superintendent or other person, be exercised or performed within the Province or other District of the Colony specified:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority for that purpose vested in him, doth hereby order and direct that all the powers, functions, duties, and authorities vested in or required to be performed by the Governor, or the Governor in Council, or the Colonial Secretary, by "The Lunatics Act, 1868," within the Province of Westland, shall be exercised by the Superintendent of the said Province.

JULIUS VOGEL, Presiding.
FORSYTH MORRON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE.

All that line of roadway, of one chain in width, commencing at Mawhera Quay, Greymouth, and proceeding thence through Greymouth in a course nearly due south, thence in a general south-south-east course to Marsden, and which said line of roadway is proclaimed and defined in a Proclamation dated the 20th August, 1873, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the same date.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Delegation of Governor’s Powers under "The Lunatics Act, 1868," to the Superintendent of the Province of Westland.

Delegation of certain of the Governor’s powers under "The Gold Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1868," to the Superintendent of the Province of Westland.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Gold Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1868," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or to such other person as the Governor may deem fit, within any province, county, district, or division of the Colony, and subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as the Governor may think fit, all or any of the powers by the said Act vested in the Governor, except such powers as are herein directed to be exercised by the Governor in Council, and that whenever the Governor shall have delegated the powers thereby conferred upon him, or any of them...