Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 30th November, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT,
is pleased to appoint

EDWARD DOBSON, Esq.,
to be Provincial Engineer; the appointment
to bear date from the 25th instant.

By order of His Honor the Superintendent,
H. G. GOULAND,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 4th December, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
directs the publication for general
information of the following extracts from
the New Zealand Government Gazette, No. 36,
published November 8, 1854:—

By order of His Honor the Superintendent,
H. G. GOULAND,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 7th November, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
is pleased to appoint

MR. HENRY JAGGAR,
to be Pound-keeper at Christchurch.

By order of His Honor the Superintendent,
H. G. GOULAND,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 28th November, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
is pleased to appoint

THEODORE BLUNT KELLE, Esq.,
to be Chief Clerk in the Provincial Secretary’s Office, vice Puckle, resigned, the appointment to bear date from the 1st of December.

By order of His Honor the Superintendent,
H. G. GOULAND,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 11th December, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
is pleased to appoint

SIR WILLIAM CONGREVE, BART., and
MR. J. T. PARKINSON,
to be Inspectors of Sheep under the Scab
and Catarrh Ordinance, No. 2, Sess. III.

By order of His Honor the Superintendent,
H. G. GOULAND,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 27th November, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
directs it to be notified that
all persons who shall henceforth encroach
on the land reserved for public roads within
the Province, either by digging ditches, or
raising banks thereon: will be prosecuted;
and that those persons who have already
so encroached will be liable at any time to
be called on to replace the soil so removed
or to remove the banks so made.

By order of His Honor the Superintendent,
H. G. GOULAND,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Col. ROBERT HENRY
WYNYARD, Companion of the most
Honourable Order of the Bath, Officer
administering the Government, and
Commander-in-Chief in and over the
Islands of New Zealand and its dependencies, &c., &c., &c.

Whereas by an Act made and enacted by
the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled
the “Marriage Act, 1854,” it is provided that
it shall be lawful for the Governor by Proclamation to divide the colony of New Zealand
into such and so many Districts as he shall
think fit, and that every such District shall be
called by a distinct name, and shall be a Registrar’s District for the purposes in the said
Act mentioned. Now I, the Officer administering the Government, pursuant to the authority
in me vested in that behalf, do hereby proclaim
and declare, &c.

KAIAPOI.

That so much of the said colony as is comprised within the following boundaries shall be
a Registrar’s District, and shall be called “the
District of Kaiapoi,” viz.:
Comprising all that part of the Province of
Canterbury lying north of the River Courtenay.

CHRISTCHURCH.

That so much of the said colony as is comprised within the following boundaries shall be
a Registrar’s District, and shall be called “the
District of Christchurch,” viz.:
Comprising all that part of the said Province
of Canterbury lying south of the River Courtenay, and west of a line commencing at the
mouth of that river, extending along the sea
coast and north shore of the estuary at the
mouth of the Avon and Heathcote Rivers as
far as the old ferry over the Heathcote at the
end of the Ferry Road, thence straight to the
flag staff on Mount Pleasant, thence along the
highest ridge of the hills to Cooper’s Knobs,
thence straight to the mouth of the River
Halswell, thence along the east edge of Lake
Ellesmere and the sea coast to the mouth of the
Wai tangi River...

AKAROA.

That so much of the said colony as is comprised within the following boundaries shall be
a Registrar’s District, and shall be called “the
District of Akaroa,” viz.:
Comprising all that part of Bank’s Peninsula
lying east of a line drawn from a point on the
sea coast half way between the eastern headland of Port Levy and the western headland
of Pigeon Bay, to the head of the north branch
of the Little River, thence down the course of
that river and Lake Forsyth to the sea.