✨ Provincial Establishment Order
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1859.
AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCKLAND,
THE 4TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1859.
Present:-
His Excellency the Governor.
Col. Gold, Mr. Whitaker,
Mr. Richmond, Mr. Tancred.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand intituled the
"New Provinces Act, 1858," it is enacted that
whenever not less than 3-5ths of the registered
electors entitled to vote in the election of
Members of the House of Representatives
resident within any district, whereof the area shall
not be less than 500,000 acres, shall petition
the Governor in Council to establish a New
Province comprising such district, the Governor
in Council, by Order published in the New Zea-
land Government Gazette, shall with all con-
venient speed establish such Province accord-
ingly, subject nevertheless to the fulfilment
of certain conditions in the said Act specified.
And whereas a petition has been duly presented
praying for the establishment of a New Province
at Wairau in the Province of Nelson, and the
several requirements and conditions of the said
Act have been duly complied with and fulfilled:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor,
by and with the advice and consent of the Exe-
cutive Council, and in exercise of the powers in
this behalf vested in him by the said recited
Act, doth by this present Order establish a New
Province to be called and known by the name
of Marlborough, and doth define the limits of
the said Province to be as follows, that is to
say,-all that district, being heretofore parcel
of the Province of Nelson, which lies, or is
within the boundary following, that is to say,
-Commencing at the mouth of the river
Tutaiputuputu, or Conway, and following that
river to its scurce, thence running in a straight
line to the confluence of the rivers Acheron
and Clarence, thence by the Acheron to the
confluence of the Guide, and by that stream
to Barefell's Pass, thence in a straight line to the
Top House, Wairau Valley, thence in a straight
line to the summit of Ward's Pass, thence, by the
summit of the watershed, to the Red Hills at
the source of the Pelorus, thence by the
Pelorus to the confluence of the Heringa,
thence by the Heringa to its source in or near
Saddle Hill, thence in a straight line to the
summit of Saddle Hill, thence by the summit
of the watershed between the Pelorus and
Blind Bay, to the summit of Mount McLaren,
and thence in a straight line to the head of that
arm of Tennyson Inlet which approaches
nearest to Squally Cove, Croisilles Harbour.
And the Governor, by and with the advice and
consent aforesaid, doth hereby, in further pur-
suance of the said Act, constitute the town of
Picton, heretofore called Waitohi, to be the
capital of the said Province of Marlborough.
And doth declare that this Order shall take
effect on the first day of November, 1859.
F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
- This Order in Council is republished in consequence
of the words "Top House Wairan Valley thence in à
straight line to the" having been omitted in the 39th
line, in the publication of the Order in the Gazette,
No. 31, of October 6th, 1859.
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🏘️ Order Establishing the Province of Marlborough
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government4 October 1859
Province creation, Marlborough, Nelson boundary, Picton capital, Executive Council, New Provinces Act 1858
- His Excellency the Governor
- Col. Gold
- Mr. Whitaker
- Mr. Richmond
- Mr. Tancred
- F. G. Steward, Clerk of the Executive Council