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Baron Mulgrave of New Boss, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Commander 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; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven. Geo. McLean. God save the Queen!

Cadrona Depasturing District. — Additional Regulations.

(l.8.) Normanbt, Governor. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas by a Proclamation made and issued under the authority of the fourteenth section of " The Gold Fields Act, 1866," bearing date the twelfth day of March last past, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fifteenth day of March aforesaid, a certain district withiu the Provincial District of Otago was constituted a depasturing district, and certain regulations for the depasturing of stock within the aforesaid depasturing district were also made and proclaimed by the same instrument: And whereas it is expedient to make other regulations in addition to the regulations heretofore made and published as aforesaid : Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority enabling me in this behalf, proclaim and declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the depasturing district constituted by the aforesaid Proclamation of the twelfth day of March last, as the same is described in the Schedule annexed to the said Proclamation, shall be named The Cardrona Depasturing District ; and also that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the following regulations shall take effect within the said depasturing district, in addition to the regulations for the same heretofore made and published as aforesaid.

Additional Depasturing Eegulations. 1. John Kevin, John Fox, John McGrath, Henry Millar, and Ealph Halliday, all of Cardrona, or such other persons as the Governor may from time to time, by warrant, appoint, shall be and are hereby appointed the Board of Wardens for the above-named Cardrona Depasturing District. 2. The said John Kevin shall be the first Chairman of the Board. Every successive Chairman shall be elected by the majority of the votes of the Wardens. 3. In case of the absence of the Chairman, the Wardens present shall appoint one of themselves to preside for the day at any meeting of the Board. 4. The Chairman shall have a casting vote in cases of equality of votes. 5. The Eeceiver of Gold Bevenue at Arrowtown for the time being shall be and is hereby appointed to give effect to all Depasturing Eegulations iv force within the Cardrona Depasturing District, and to see that the same are properly carried out and obeyed. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Boss, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland ; a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Commander 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; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twentyninth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred aud seventyseven. Geo. McLean. God sate the Queen!

Altering Regulations for the Depasturing of Slock upon certain Waste Lands of the Crown within the Otago Gold Field. (1.5.) Normanbt, Governor. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas hy the fourteenth section of " The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to make, alter, and revoke regulations for the depasturing of stock upon any lauds withiu proclaimed gold fields for which a lease or license for depasturing purposes has not been granted, or has been cancelled or suspended, aird to regulate the number of horses or cattle which may be run upon such lands by the holders of miners' rights and business licenses, or of mining, mineral, and agricultural leases, or by other persons, and to issue depasturing licenses, and to regulate the fees that shall be paid therefor: And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, and published in the Otago Provincial Government Gazette, No. 897, on the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, the Executive Government of the Province of Otago did, by virtue and in exercise