boundaries hereinafter mentioned shall henceforth be the limits of "The Wairau Gold Field" aforesaid, instead of the boundaries defined in a Proclamation bearing date the Twentieth day of May, 1870 (private lands having been declared to be exempt by a Proclamation bearing date the Twenty-third day of January, 1871), and altered by a Proclamation bearing date the Nineteenth day of November, 1872, which said proclamations were given under my hand, and issued under the seal of the said Province ;

Commencing at the saddle called "Ward’s Pass"; thence by Ward’s Pass Stream to its junction with the river Goulter; thence by the North-western, and North-eastern boundaries of the Mount Patriarch Run to the North-western corner of the North Bank Run; thence by the Northern boundary of that run to the North-western boundary of the "Hillersden Cattle Run"; thence by a right line to the Eastern corner of the run applied for by Henry George Bell; thence by Quartz Creek to Bartlett’s Creek; thence by that creek and the boundary of Langley Dale Run to the most Northern corner of the said run; thence by a right line to the North-western corner of Section Number 134, Onamalutu Valley; thence by that line continued in the same direction to a point one mile distant from the trunk line of road through the Kaituna Valley; thence by a right line due North magnetic to the watershed between the Onamalutu and Kaituna Valleys; thence by that watershed to the Summit of the ranges between the Wairau and Pelorus Valleys; thence by that summit to the boundary of the Province to Ward’s Pass Saddle, excepting all Freehold, Leasehold, and Private Lands, and lands held under Depasturing Licenses within the aforesaid boundaries.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Marlborough, at Blenheim, this Fourth day of May, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

A. P. SEYMOUR,
Superintendent.

By his Honor’s command,
CYRUS GOULTER,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

By his Honor ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by "The Hawke’s Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act, 1868," (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act") and "The Hawke’s Bay and Marlborough Rivers Acts Amendment Act, 1872," it is enacted that upon the petition of the owners or occupiers of not less than three-fourths of the annual value of the rateable property, as in the said Act provided, of any District defined in such petition, any part of the Province intersected or bounded by any river from the overflow of which damage may be apprehended, the Superintendent shall by Proclamation in the Provincial Gazette declare that the said Act shall come into operation within such part of the Province, and shall also by such proclamation define the boundaries of the same, and declare the same to be a District under the said Act, and shall also fix the name by which such District shall be known, and also in such Proclamation shall determine the number of Conservators who are to constitute the Board for such District, but in no case shall the number be less than five nor more than seven.

And whereas the petition of the owners or occupiers of three-fourths of the annual value of the rateable property, as in the said Act provided, within the District hereinafter described has been received by me: And whereas damage from the overflow of the river Opawa bounding the said District is apprehended:

Now, therefore, I, ARTHUR PENROSE SEYMOUR, the Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough, do hereby proclaim and declare that "The Hawke’s Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act, 1868," shall come into operation within that part of the Province of Marlborough which is situated within the boundaries hereinafter set forth, and do further proclaim and declare the same to be a District under the said Act, to be known as "The Lower Wairau District," and that the number of Conservators who are to constitute the Board for such District shall be Five.

THE LOWER WAIRAU DISTRICT.

Bounded towards the West by the River Waipaoa from the South-western corner of "The Delta Run" to the junction of the said river with the river Wairau; thence towards