NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority,

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures,
are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate,
and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s Command,

WILLIAM ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XI.] TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1864. [No. XI.]

A PROCLAMATION,

Appointing certain Districts under the “Marriage Act.”

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight, Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.

WHEREAS, by the “Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1858,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, at any time, by Proclamation in the ‘New Zealand Gazette,’ to divide the Colony of New Zealand, for the purposes of such Act, into such and so many Districts as he may think fit, and that every such District shall be called by a distinct name, and shall be a Registrar’s District; and it is provided that the Governor may, at any time, revoke the whole or any part of such Proclamation, and issue a new Proclamation, dividing the Colony or any part of it anew into Districts, or increasing the number, or altering the boundaries of Districts, as from time to time he may think requisite:

And whereas, by a Proclamation duly made and issued, bearing date the Sixth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, the Governor, in pursuance of the said recited power and authority, did amongst others, constitute a District for the purposes of the said Act, called the “Timaru District,” the boundaries whereof were therein set forth, which said Proclamation came into operation and took effect on the First day of October, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine;

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of the said Proclamation as relates to the said District, and to divide anew the territory formerly comprised within such District:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested by the said recited Act, do hereby revoke the said Proclamation so far as relates to the “Timaru District,” and do proclaim and declare that the territory formerly comprised within such District shall be and is hereby divided for the purposes of the said Act into two Districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follows:

GERALDINE DISTRICT.

From the south bank of the Rangitata to the south bank of the Opihi, and the south bank of the Te Ngawai to McKenzie’s Pass.

TIMARU DISTRICT.

From the south bank of the Opihi and Te Ngawai to the boundary of the Provinces of Otago and Canterbury (Waitangi River).

And I do declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation and take effect on the First day of April next ensuing.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this Nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,
WILLIAM FOX.

God Save The Queen!

G. G. Gazette, No. 7, Feb. 24, 1864. Vol. II.—No. 11.