NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1857. [No. 3.

PROCLAMATION.

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

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand intituled
"The Waste Lands Act, 1856," it is enacted
that no land acquired from the Aboriginal
Inhabitants after the passing thereof shall be
open for sale or disposal until the Governor
shall have notified by Proclamation in the New
Zealand Government Gazette that the Native
Title has been extinguished over such land.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor, Do hereby
Proclaim and Notify that the Native Title has
been extinguished over the two several blocks
of Land the boundaries whereof are mentioned
or described in the Schedule hereunto annexed.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Auckland, this sixteenth day of
January, in the year of Our
Lord, One-thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty-seven.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

SCHEDULE
No. 1.
BOUNDARIES OF THE MARAEKAKAHO BLOCK;
Estimated to contain 30,000 Acres.

Commencing at the mouth of the Marae-
kakaho River and running up stream, on the
boundary of the land sold last year (the
Aorangi block) to Makaramu, te Aroha, te
Waikoukou, whence it runs on shore on the
old boundary to Kekakeka, te Paua, Rakau-
wharoa, Parikarangaranga, there it falls into

the Mangaonuku and runs down stream to te
Waiohora, thence it follows the boundaries of
the land first sold (Te Hapuku's block,
boundaries of December, 1851) as far as to
Ahitara o te Houkura, and still follows the
old boundary to te Ruakaka, turns there
and runs to te Ahipakura, thence to to Pou a
whakaarahia, thence to to Waitangitanga,
thence to te Waka, thence to te Kaitaha, thence
to the Waikoreke, thence to Tiritirimatanga,
down which it runs into Ongaru, and there
follows the stream to Pokotaringa, running
parallel to the Ngaruroro which the boundary
crosses running up a gully from the swamp
and thence it runs down to te Urua o Makai
where it falls into the Ngaruro and runs up the
stream till it joins the starting point at the
mouth of Maraekakaho.

No. 2.
BOUNDARIES OF THE MATA BLOCK;
Estimated to contain 16,000 Acres.

Commencing at te Ngakau o Hape, running
thence to Taumata o te Mihiroe, thence to
te Rou Pungarehu, thence to Hikahika, thence
to Waikaka, thence to te Wai o Hinerakai,
thence to Taumata o Puku, where it turns and
runs along the ridge to Papahuakina, thence to
Tauroa, thence to te Motu o Hinerangi thence
to the Taurua, thence to Kaiwaka and down
the Tukituki to te Ahi Koura, thence across
the plain by a trench cut by Mr. F. FitzGerald,
Waipuna, and through the middle of the
swamp to Karituwhenua.

The boundary of the Reserve called "Ka-
raunua's land" begins at Karituwhenua and
runs in a straight line to te Hau, thence it
runs along the ridge to te Kahurangi, where
it turns and runs to the Mokopeke, thence to
Wanawana, and thence to te Ngakau o Hape..

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of the