Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

Charles Hook.—No. 10 District—comprises the Highway Districts of Wairau, Paparoa, and Whakapirau, together with the native lands between those districts and the Wairoa river.

Antonio Spadacini.—No. 10a District—comprises the several Waipu Highway Districts.

Thomas Inger.—No. 11 District—comprises the Highway Districts of Pukekaroro, Mangawai, Arai, Albertland North and South, and Wharehine, together with the lands between the Otamatea and Oruawaharo rivers, and that part of the Tauhoa block north of the Hoteo river.

George Moor.—No. 12 District—comprises the Highway Districts of Pakiri, Omaha, Matakana East and West, and Upper Mahurangi, including the Township of Mahurangi and the Island of Kawau.

John Springall.—No. 13 District.—Great and Little Barrier Islands.

William Lee.—No. 37 District.—Mercury Bay North District.

No. 38 District.—Mercury Bay and Tairua Districts.

Robert Stevenson MacFarlane.—No. 39 District.—Tapu District.

James Mansfield Gelling.—No. 46 District—comprises the Piako, Pukorokoro, Koheroa, and Mercer Districts.

No. 49 District—comprises the Highway Districts of Town of Ngaruawahia, Hamilton, Hamilton West Township, and Pukekura.

Roger Hill.—No. 47 District.—The Electoral District of Tauranga.

Charley Lancelot Perry.—No. 48 District—comprises the Highway Districts of Kirikiriroua, Hamilton East Township, Tamahere, Cambridge, and Cambridge North Township.

No. 50 District—comprises the Highway Districts of Newcastle, Mangapiko, and Rangiaohia.

No. 51 District—comprises the Highway Districts of Alexandra Township and Pirongia.

James La Trobe.—No. 52 District—comprises the Karioi, Aotea, and Kawhia Districts.

No. 53 District—comprising part of the Waikato Districts South of Punui River.

Lopus Rhodes.—54 District.—The Electoral District of Opotiki.

Francis James Piesse.—No. 55 District.—The Electoral District of Turanganui.

AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

DISTRIBUTION of the Vote passed in Session XXIX., 1873–4, in Aid of Libraries in Country Districts, for the year 1874:—

Note.—The Vote for the above was £300, being £50 in excess of the amount voted in previous years, and 15 Libraries appear in the above list which never participated in any former grant.

Extracts from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 66, dated the 10th December, 1874.

"The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1874," brought into operation in certain Provinces.

(L.S.) James Fergusson, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1874," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, on the request of the Superintendent of any province, to bring this Act into operation in any such province or any part thereof to be defined as a district under the powers hereinafter contained; and upon a Proclamation being made by the Governor in the New Zealand Gazette to that effect, this Act shall be in force within such province or part thereof to be defined as aforesaid, as the case may be: And by the said Act it is also enacted that upon any such request as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, from time to time to define and describe one or more districts within any such province, with such boundaries as the Superintendent may think convenient; and the Governor may from time to time alter the boundaries of districts formed or hereafter to be formed under this Act; and in and by any such Proclamation he may assign to any such district a name by which it shall be called or known for the purposes of this Act:

And whereas the Superintendents of the provinces mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto have respectively requested that the said Act should be brought into operation within the several provinces for which they are such Superintendents, and also that the said provinces should be defined to be districts as hereinafter mentioned;