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The New Zealand Gazette.

Published by Authority.

THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1859.

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 Zealand,
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 Blocks of Land
whereof the boundaries are mentioned or des-
cribed in the Schedule hereunto annexed.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony, at Government House,
at Auckland, this twelfth day of
July, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-nine.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command,

HENRY JOHN TANCRED
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.

PROVINCE OF HAWKE'S BAY.

North Porangahau Block, estimated area
130,000 acres.

BOUNDARIES.

Commencing at Parimahu and following up
the boundary of the block first sold (Te Hapu-
ku's Block) to the Pa o Te Rangitakia, thence
it runs to Otakoha and follows the stream to
the Pou-a-Tapatu, thence it runs to the Ngutu-
mara as far as Tutea-o-Kahutia, thence to the
Manga-a-te-Waiora, thence to the Roupi and
follows the course of the Waikopiro to the
Manga-a-Purakau, and down that stream to
Pukanohi where it runs into the Whangai, and
so on to Manga Puaka, and following that
stream to Poutini, thence to Mangawhero, and
following that stream to Taurekaitai, and down
the Taurekaitai to Porangahau to the mouth of
the river, and thence by the sea beach round to
Parimahu.

Saving and excepting the reserves at Epa-
raima, at Pakowhai, at the Makahua, at Oreore-
waia, and at Manukaroa, as the said reserves
have been finally settled and surveyed by Mr.
Bousfield in conjunction with the Native Chiefs,
and which reserves are mentioned in the Deed
of Sale and particularly delineated on the
original Maps in the Land Office at Napier.

Karanemas Reserve.

Mata Block, estimated area 4,000 acres.

BOUNDARIES.

Commencing at Karituwhenua, and running
thence to te Hau, following thence the summit
of the hill (Te Mata), to Kahurangi, turning
there and running straight down to the source
of the Ngakau o Hape, and down the stream
to Ototara, and so to the Ngaruroro river, which
forms the boundary back to Karituwhenua.

Tautane Block, estimated area 110,000 acres.

BOUNDARIES.

Commencing at the Arataura, and running
inland to the Kohi-o-tu, thence to Tawaputahi,
thence to Te Ahititi, thence to Te Iringa-o-
Rahunga where it turns to the Southward and
runs to Rakautuhaha, thence to Oporae, and
thence still in a Southerly direction to Waha-
tuara when it strikes the boundary of the land
already sold to the Queen of England, and fol-
lows the said boundary to Waimata, and from
the mouth of that stream round the coast to Te
Arataura.

Saving and excepting a reserve of one thou-
sand acres, more or less, between the Wainui
and Tautane rivers surveyed by Mr. Bousfield
in conjunction with the Native Chiefs, and a
reserve of fifty acres, more or less, including
certain Native Cultivations and Graves on the
left bank of the Tautane stream, also surveyed
by Mr. Bousfield, in conjunction with the
Native Chiefs, and which reserves are mentioned
in the Deed of Sale, and particularly delineated
on the original Map in the Land Office at
Napier.