NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PROVINCE OF NEW ULSTER.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate.

By His Excellency’s Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. I. AUCKLAND, THURSDAY, NOV. 2, 1848. No. 24.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency GEORGE GREY,
Esquire, Governor-in-Chief, in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Governor of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS it is expedient that so much of the County of Eden as is included within the boundaries hereinafter particularly set forth, should be divided into Hundreds:

Now, therefore, I the said Governor and Commander-in-Chief do hereby proclaim and declare, that the same be divided into Six several Hundreds, to be called respectively the Hundred of “Auckland”—the Hundred of “Onehunga”—the Hundred of “Panmure”—the Hundred of “Otahuhu”—the Hundred of “Howick”—and the Hundred of “Pupuke”; and the boundaries whereof respectively are hereinafter described; and particularly set forth in a map or plan deposited in the office of the Surveyor-General.

DESCRIPTION OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THE HUNDRED OF AUCKLAND.

The northern boundary commences at high-water mark at the head of the southernmost branch of the Oraki Creek of Hobson’s Bay, and proceeds thence along the western shores of the said branch of the Oraki Creek, and Hobson’s Bay to the western head of Hobson’s Bay. Thence along high-water mark of the southern shore of the Waitemata Harbour, westward to its confluence with the Wahu Creek; thence along the eastern shore of the Wahu Creek, at high-water mark to Allotment No. 81, of the Parish of Titirangi; thence along the western sides of Allotments Nos. 81, 80, 76, and 75a, all in the Parish of Titirangi, to the shores of the Harbour of Manukau. The southern boundary thence proceeds to the eastward along high-water mark of the Harbour of Manukau, to the north-western boundary of Section No. 13. The south-eastern boundary proceeds thence along the north-western side of Section No. 13, to the south side of Allotment No. 86 of Section No. 10. It proceeds thence westward along the southern boundary of the said allotment to its south-western angle; thence it proceeds northward along the western sides of Allotments Nos. 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, and 92, all in Section No. 10. From the north-western angle of Allotment No. 92, it proceeds along the northern sides of that allotment and of Allotment No. 79, also in Section No. 10, to the north-eastern angle of Allotment No. 79; and thence continues southward, along the eastern side of the last mentioned allotment, to a point opposite the western extremity of a road running east between Allotments Nos. 56 and 57, both in Section No. 10; thence along the southern side of the said road, to its junction with a road running north, between Allotments Nos. 38 and 39; thence along the western side of the said road, to its junction with another road diverging from it, opposite to Allotment No. 29, of Section No. 10; thence along the