NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PROVINCE OF NEW ULSTER.

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

VOL. I. AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, DEC. 29, 1848. No. 34.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Major-General,
GEORGE DEAN PITT,
Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Ulster, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session 7, No. 17, intituled "An Ordinance to repeal the Cattle Trespass Ordinance, and to provide for the summary recovery of compensation for damage done by cattle trespassing,"—it is amongst other things enacted that "if any cattle shall be found wandering at large in any street or public place within the limits of any Town or Village, which shall be proclaimed by the Governor to come within the operation of this present provision, the owners thereof, shall forfeit and pay for every head of cattle so wandering, any sum not exceeding five shillings, to be recovered in a summary manner."

And whereas it is expedient that the said provision of the said recited Ordinance should be extended to the Villages of Howick, Panmure, Otahuhu and Onehunga.

Now, therefore, I, the Lieutenant-Governor, do hereby proclaim and declare that on and after the 1st day of February, 1849, the said Villages of "Howick," "Panmure," "Otahuhu," and "Onehunga," the boundaries whereof respectively are hereafter particularly described, shall come within the operation of the said provision of the said recited Ordinance.

Boundaries of Howick.

The northern boundary commences at the junction of Ridge Road and Picton Place, and thence follows the northern sides of allotments Nos. 31, 30, 29, 27, 26, 25, 24, and 23, of Section No. 1, to a stream forming the northern boundary of the eastern portion of section No. 1. Thence it follows the course of the said stream to the northern side of Uxbridge Street, at allotment No. 1, of section No. 1, and thence continues along the northern side of Uxbridge Street to the shore of the Gulf of the Thames. From the point last described it follows the shore of the Gulf, eastward, to the north-eastern angle of allotment No. 7, of section No. 6.

The eastern boundary commences at the point last mentioned, and proceeds thence along the eastern boundary of section No. 6, and the exterior boundaries of sections Nos. 5 and 4 to the south-west angle of allotment No. 17 of section No. 4. Thence it follows the eastern sides of Sale Street and Papakura Road to the junction of Papakura Road with Union Road.

The southern boundary commences at the junction of the roads last mentioned, and follows the southern side of Union Road to its junction with Ridge Road.

The western boundary commences at the junction of the last-mentioned road, and follows the western side of Ridge Road to its junction with Picton Place first mentioned.

Boundaries of Panmure.

Bounded on the north by the northern sides of allotments, Nos. 28, 29, 30, and 31, of Sec-