✨ Proclamation and Election Notice
Numb. 20.
96
The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1858.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the
most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c.
WHEREAS the land hereinafter men-
tioned has been acquired by purchase,
from the Aboriginal inhabitants of New Zea-
land, and it is expedient that the acquisition
thereof should be notified by Proclamation
accordingly.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor, do hereby
proclaim and notify that the Native Title has
been extinguished over the Block of
Land whereof the boundaries 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
Government House, at Auck-
land, this ninth day of
July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-eight.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
SCHEDULE.
PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.
District of Raglan.
Part of the Mata Reserve, estimated to contain
1500 Acres.
BOUNDARIES.
A line commencing at a point a little below
the rapid of Opotoru, which was marked by
the surveyors, thence on along Mr. Rogan's
survey line till it crosses the road to Aotea,
thence on to the end of the said survey line,
and on to Paraoa, it then goes in a Southerly
direction till it arrives at Ti Korunui, thence
in a straight line till it meets the boundary line
of Ruapuke and Karioi, it then goes in a
Northerly direction along the old boundary line
(Karioi) to a point a little below the rapid of
Opotoru, where the boundary closes.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 8th July, 1858.
HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified that a Writ, issued for the
election of a member to serve in the House of
Representatives for the Dunedin Country Dis-
trict has been returned with a certificate to the
effect that
JOHN PARKIN TAYLOR, Esq., of Otakaika,
has been duly elected.
E. W. STAFFORD.
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🪶 Proclamation Extinguishing Native Title over Part of Mata Reserve, Raglan
🪶 Māori Affairs9 July 1858
Proclamation, Native Title, Land acquisition, Mata Reserve, Raglan District, Boundaries
- Rogan (Mr.), Survey line referenced in boundaries
- Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- E. W. STAFFORD
🏛️ Confirmation of Election for Dunedin Country District Representative
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration8 July 1858
Election, Writ, House of Representatives, Dunedin Country District
- JOHN PARKIN Taylor (Esquire), Duly elected member
- E. W. STAFFORD