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PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas
Gore Browne, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Waste Lands Act, 1856," it is enacted
that no land acquired from the aboriginal
inhabitants, after the passing thereof, shall be
open for sale or disposal until the Governor
shall have notified, by Proclamation in the
New Zealand Government Gazette, that the
Native Title has been extinguished over such
land.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor, do hereby
proclaim and notify that the Native Title has
been extinguished over the Blocks of Land the
boundaries whereof are mentioned or described
in the Schedule hereunto annexed.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand,
at Government House, at
Auckland, this tenth day
of November, in the year
of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-
seven.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency’s command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.

Province of Auckland.

Whangarei District.—Whareora Block.
(Containing 4927 Acres.)

The boundary commences at Kahiwa, thence
along the boundary line of the Parahaki Block
till it reaches Pehiawiri, thence along the
boundary line separating it from Pehiawiri,
thence along a line on the ridge of hills on the
Ngunguru road, thence to Whanui, and thence
to Kahiwa.

Whangarei District.—Parahaki Block.
(Containing 4481 Acres.)

The boundaries commence on the boundary
of Mr. Dent’s farm at Awaroa, thence down
the Awaroa river to its mouth, thence up the
river Hatea to the Ahipupu, thence up the
course of the said river, thence up the surveyed line running in an Easterly direction
separating Pehiawiri, thence along the said
line to the boundary line of the Whareora
Block, thence along the said line to Kahiwa,
thence along the boundary of the land sold to
Gorrie till it reaches the land of Dent, thence
along the boundary of Dent’s land to the point
of commencement; the portion on the Hatea
river, not colored red on the plan annexed to
the original deed, and included within the
aforesaid boundaries, is reserved for the Natives.

Whangarei District.—Kaurehohore Block.
(Containing 4790 Acres.)

The boundary commences at the boundary
of Paranui, thence up the course of the river
Mangakino, thence on the surveyed line to the
river of Mangahahuru, thence down the course
of the said river Mangahahuru to the branch
stream at Otai, thence to the great Swamp of
the Wairua, thence along the edge of the
great Swamp to Waihihiri, thence to Rautihore, thence along the surveyed line until it
joins the boundary of the land sold to Mr.
Mair, thence along the boundary of Mr. Mair’s
land to Paranui, where it ends at the point of
commencement.

District of Cavomandel Harbour.—Onekura,
(Pagitt’s Homestead.)
(Area 81 Acres, 3 Roods, 7 Perches.)

The boundaries commence at Puharakeke,
thence in a North-Easterly direction 1120
links, and 1592 links, crossing and recrossing
the Whangarahi Creek at Onekura; thence
through a swamp to a survey line cut through
the Kauri forest, and running in a South-Easterly direction 2300 links to a point inland
of the Otumoho Creek; thence in a straight
line, crossing and recrossing the Otumoho
Creek 4339 links, and through the middle of a
swamp along the survey line to a point at the
South-East corner of the surveyed line to
Puharakeke 1537 links, where the boundaries
join.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, November 9th, 1857.

His Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified that Writs issued for the
election of Members of the Provincial Council
for the Province of Auckland, have been returned with certificates to the effect that,

For the City of Auckland,
James Thomas Boylan, Esq.
Patrick Dignan, Esq.
Edward King, Esq.
Daniel Lynch, Esq.
Henry Matson, Esq.
William Griffin, Esq.

For the Suburbs of Auckland,
Frederick Ward Merriman, Esq.
Daniel Pollen, Esq.
Reader Gilson Wood, Esq.
Christopher Atwell Harris, Esq.

For the Southern Division,
William Buckland, Esq.
James Dilworth, Esq.
Henry Lowry Vercoe, Esq.
Joseph Middlemas, Esq.

For the Pensioner Settlements,
William Powditch, Esq.
Joseph Brennan, Esq.
John Alexander Wilson, Esq.
John Kelly, Esq.