shillings to be recovered in a summary way, and it is also further provided, that for the purpose of this Ordinance the word Cattle shall be taken to include horned or neat cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats and swine.

Now therefore I, the Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster, aforesaid, in pursuance of the authority by the said in part recited Ordinance in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare that on and after the First day of June, 1848, all that portion of the Town of Wanganui which is bounded by the River and Guyton and Churton Streets, shall come within the operation of the said recited Ordinance.

Given under my Hand, at Government House Wellington, New Munster, this fifteenth day of May, in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty-eight.

E. EYRE,
Lieutenant-Governor.

By His Excellency’s Command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

God save the Queen!

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency EDWARD EYRE, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster, in the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS, by an Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, Session 8, No. 9. intituled "An Ordinance for Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages, in the Colony of New Zealand," it is enacted that for the purposes of the said Ordinance "it shall be lawful for the Governor, (or Lieutenant-Governor), by Proclamation, to be for that purpose issued, to divide the Colony of New Zealand into such and so many Districts as he shall think fit, and every such District shall be called by a distinct name, and shall be a Deputy Registrar’s District."

Now, therefore, I, the Lieutenant-Governor, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said in part recited Ordinance, do hereby appoint that the names and boundaries of the several Deputy Registrars’ Districts in the Province of New Munster shall, for the present, be as follows:

District of Wellington.

All that part of the Northern Island which is included within the Province of New Munster, and all Islands on the Northern and Eastern sides of Cook’s Straits, shall be called the District of Wellington, and shall be the District of the Deputy-Registrar thereof, for the purposes of the said Ordinance.

District of Nelson.

All that part of the Middle Island, bounded on the North by Cook’s Straits, Blind Bay, and by a line commencing at the Westernmost part of the Mud Flat in Waimea West, and running direct to the junction of the Wangapeka and Motueka Rivers, and thence in a due Westerly direction to the Sea; on the East by Cook’s Straits, Cloudy Bay, and the Ocean; on the South by a direct line from Patikuhui (below the Five Fingers) on the Western Coast, across the Island to the Point on the Eastern Coast, where the Southern Boundary of the New Zealand Company’s Nelson Grant strikes the Sea; and on the West, by the Sea; and all the Islands on the Southern and Western sides of Cook’s Straits; shall be called the District of Nelson, and shall be the District of the Deputy-Registrar thereof for the purposes of the said Ordinance.

District of Motueka.

All that part of the Middle Island bounded on the East and South by Massacre Bay, Blind Bay, and by the line hereinbefore described as part of the Northern Boundary of the District of Nelson aforesaid; and on the North and West by the Ocean; shall be called the District of Motueka, and shall be the District of the Deputy-Registrar thereof for the purposes of the said Ordinance.

District of Akaroa.

All that part of the Middle Island lying between the Nelson District aforesaid, and a direct line drawn across the Island from Torata Point on the Western Coast to the mouth of the Waitangi River on the Eastern Coast, shall be called the District of Akaroa, and shall be the District of the Deputy-Registrar thereof for the purposes of the said Ordinance.

District of Otakou.

All that part of the Province of New Munster not included in any of the Districts hereinbefore described, (comprising Stewart’s Island or New Leinster and all the adjacent Islands,) shall be called the District of Otakou, and shall be the District of the Deputy-Registrar thereof for the purposes of this Ordinance.

Given under my Hand, at Government House, Wellington, New Munster, this fifteenth day of May, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight.

E. EYRE,
Lieutenant-Governor.

By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

God save the Queen!