90

the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and
fifty-seven.

Ruahine on to Ohawai, thence on to Oruurea,
thence on to Tamahine o te Urungatapu,
thence on to Wairangi, thence on to te Rakau-
taonga, thence on to Tikorangi, thence turning
and on to Waitutaki, thence right on to the
Ngaruroro, thence right on along the said
stream and on to Poanou, and so on until it
joins at the mouth of the Oaro stream, there it
ends.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, &c.,
&c., &c.

WHERAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Resident Magistrates' Courts Extension
of Jurisdiction Act, 1856," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon
the request of the Superintendent of any Pro-
vince, by proclamation in the Government
Gazette, to bring the said Act into operation
in respect to any Resident Magistrate's Court
having jusisdiction within such Province, from
and after a certain day to be named in such
proclamation, and to define the Districts within
which cases may be heard in such Court under
the provisions of the said Act.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New
Zealand, upon the request of the Superintendent
of the Province of Wellington, do hereby pro-
claim and declare, that the said recited Act
shall come into operation in respect of the
Courts of the several Resident Magistrates of
Wellington, Hawke's Bay, and Wanganui, in
the said Province of Wellington, from and after
the first day of July in the year 1857.

And I do hereby define the Districts within
which cases may be heard, in the said Resident
Magistrates' Courts, under the provisions of
the said Act, as follows, viz.:-

Within the Districts of Wellington, and
of Manawatu, in the Court of the
Resident Magistrate of Wellington;
Within the District of Hawke's Bay and
of Wairarapa in the Court of the
Resident Magistrate of Hawke's Bay;
Within the District of Wanganui-Ranga-
tiki, in the Court of the Resident
Magistrate of Wanganui;

the boundaries of which said several Districts
are respectively set forth and described in the
Schedule, and are delineated by the maps or
plans hereunto annexed,

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Auck-
land, this second day of June, in

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

SCHEDULE.

Wellington District.

The District of Wellington comprises the
tract of country enclosed by the following
boundary, viz: a line drawn from Cape Rewa-
rewa, along the Remutaka Range; thence in a
straight direction to the Gorge in the Ruahine
Mountains; thence along the Coast to Cape
Rewarewa, including Port Nicholson, as de-
lineated on the accompanying plan.

Manawatu District.

The Manawatu District comprises the tract
of country enclosed by the following boundary,
viz.: a line drawn from the point where the
176th parallel of longitude crosses the 40th
parallel of latitude along the said 176th
parallel until it meets Ruahine Range; thence
along Ruahine Range to the Gorge in the
Ruahine Mountains; thence down the Mana-
watu River to the Coast; thence along the
Coast to the mouth of the Rangitikei River;
thence up the Rangitikei River to the 40th
parallel of latitude; thence along the said 40th
parallel of latitude to the point where it crosses
the 176th parallel of longitude, as delineated
on the accompanying plan.

Wairarapa District.

The District of Wairarapa comprises the
tract of country enclosed by the following
boundary, viz: a line drawn from Cape Rewa-
rewa along the Coast to Cape Turnagain;
thence up the Waimata Stream along the
northern boundary of Puketoi to Puketoi
Range; thence in a straight line to where
Teruamea falls into the Manawatu River;
thence along the Manawatu River to the
Gorge in the Ruahine Mountains; thence in a
straight line to Remutaku Ranges; thence
along Remutaku Range to Cape Rewarewa,
as delineated on the accompanying plan.

Hawke's Bay District.

The Hawke's Bay District comprises the
tract of country enclosed by the following
boundary, viz: a line drawn from the Gorge in
the Ruahine Mountains up Ruahine Range,
until it meets the 176th parallel of longitude;
thence along the 176th parallel to the northern
boundary of the Province; thence along the
said northern boundary to the East Coast;
thence down the East Coast to Cape Turn-
again; thence up Waimata Stream, along the
northern boundary of Puketoi to Puketoi