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6. I regret that the period up to which the
   claims for compensation receivable by the Compensa-
   tion Act were made reliable by the provi-
   sions of that Act, should have prevented the
   preparation by the Commissioners of such a
   report as would have enabled you to come to a
   decision upon the subject during the present
   session. It will be my earnest endeavour to
   cause this question to be brought to a speedy
   and satisfactory issue, and to secure for all
   those to whom compensation is due, that jus-
   tice which has been so long withheld from
   them.

7. I thank you for the efforts you have
   made to promote the welfare of the province;
   and I assure you that, in administering the
   funds placed at my disposal, no effort shall be
   wanting on my part to procure for the public
   the greatest possible amount of benefit there-
   from.

8. I now declare this Council to be pro-
   rogued, and it is prorogued accordingly.

J. P. ROBINSON,
Superintendent.

PROCLAMATION.

By his Honour JOHN PERRY ROBINSON,
Esquire, Superintendent of the Pro-
vince of Nelson, in the Islands of New
Zealand.

WHEREAS, by an Act passed by the
Superintendent and Provincial Council
of the Province of Nelson, in Session III,
No. 4, intituled \"The Country Roads Act,
1856,\" it is amongst other things enacted,
that it should be lawful for the Superintendent,
from time to time, to constitute and appoint
certain districts in which the said Act should
come into operation, and the limits of such
districts from time to time to alter, as occasion
might require; and also, if he should see fit,
to revoke the proclamation by which such dis-
tricts have been constituted, and to
make such other provisions as he should think
necessary for carrying into effect the said Act:
And whereas, by a certain proclamation, bear-
ing date the fifteenth day of July, 1857, the
Superintendent of the said province did pro-
claim, constitute, and appoint certain districts
in which the said recited Act should come into
operation: And whereas it is expedient that
the said proclamation should be revoked, and
other provisions made in lieu thereof: Now,
therefore, I, the Superintendent of the Pro-
vince of Nelson, do hereby revoke the said
recited proclamation from and after the 4th
day of July, 1858, and I do hereby proclaim,
constitute, and appoint the following districts
in which the said recited Act shall
come into operation, from and after the said
fourth day of July, 1858; that is to say—

SUBURBAN-NORTH DISTRICT.
Bounded as follows :
Northward, by a line known as the Native
Boundary Line, commencing at highwater
mark at the northern angle of section
numbered 36, and running in a south-
easterly direction for a distance of five
and a-half miles ;
Eastward, by a line running from the last-
named point six miles, in the direction of
the mud-hut, situated on section number
36 in the Motupiko Valley ;
Southward, by the boundary line between
sections numbered 3 and 4, and continu-
ing westerly to the Boulder Bank and
easterly to the eastern boundary afore-
said ;
Westward, by the sea.

THE WAIMEA DISTRICT
[Comprising the former districts of Suburban South,
Waimea East, Waimea South, and Waimea West].
Bounded as follows :
Northward, by highwater mark from the
north-west angle of Section No. 25,
Waimea West, along the Sea Coast to
the south-west angle of Section No. 5,
Suburban South district; thence by the
northern boundary line of Section No. 12,
Suburban South, continued in a straight
line eastward to the eastern boundary of
the district ;
Eastward, by a straight line in the same
direction as the eastern boundary line of
Suburban North district, commencing
three and a-half miles from the southern
boundary of the last-named district, and
running twenty-three and a-half miles ;
Southward, by a line running from the ter-
mination of the eastern boundary of the
district hereby constituted, at right angles
to the said boundary, in a westerly direc-
tion, for six miles ;
Westward, by a straight line running from
the termination of the last-mentioned
boundary to the south-west angle of
Section No. 189, Moutere district, and
thence by a straight line running to the
commencement of the northern boundary
aforesaid, at the north-west angle of Sec-
tion No. 25, Waimea West.

MOUTERE DISTRICT.
Bounded as follows :
Northward, by a line from the south-west
corner of Section No. 60, Motueka, to
the north-west angle of Section No. 44,
Moutere, thence by a road to the Mou-
tere river, at Section No. 5, Moutere, and