THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 327

GREY TOWN DISTRICT.

Bounded on the North by the Waingawa
river from its source to the junction with the
Ruamahanga, and from thence in a line
running due East to the summit of the
Maungaraki Range, on the East from the
above named point on the summit of the
Maungaraki Range running Southward along
with the summit of the Maungaraki and Aorangi
ranges to Cape Palliser, on the South by the
sea, on the West by the summits of the
Rimutaka and Tararua Ranges.

And I do declare that this Proclamation
shall come into operation and take effect on
and from the first day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

Given under my hand at the Go-
vernment House, at Auckland,
and issued under the Seal of
the Colony of New Zealand,
this seventh day of August,
in the year of Our Lord
One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-three.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command.
ALFRED DOMETT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

At the Government House, at Auckland, the
fourth day of August, 1863,

G. GREY,
Present:—

His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Genaral
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Waste Lands Act 1858," it is enacted
that if any time the Superintendent and Pro-
vincial Council of any Province shall recom-
mend to the Governor that an augmentation
should be made in the price at which the
Waste Lands of the Crown within such
Province shall be offered for sale, either by
selection or by auction, it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council if he think fit to fix
such price accordingly. And Whereas by a
writing under the hand of John Perry Robin-
son, Esq., the Superintendent of the Province
of Nelson, bearing date the tenth day of
June 1863, it is witnessed that he the said
Superintendent did recommend the Governor
to augment from twenty shillings sterling to
two pound sterling, the maximum upset price
at which Rural Waste Land of the Crown
within the said Province shall be offered for
sale by auction, as provided for by the Waste
Land Regulations of the said Province
mentioned in the Schedule to the said Act.
And Whereas on the tenth day of June 1863,
it was resolved by the Provincial Council of
the said Province of Nelson in Session
Assembled, that the said Council do concur
with the Superintendent in recommending a
the Governor to augment from twenty shil-
lings sterling, to two pounds sterling, the
maximum upset price at which Rural Waste
Land of the Crown within the said Province
shall be offered for sale by auction aspro-.
vided by the said Waste Land Regulations
And Whereas it is expedient to make such
augmentation in the price at which the said
Waste Lands of the Crown within the said
Province of Nelson shall be offered for sale :
Now therefore his Excellency the Governor
with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, doth hereby order and
fix that the maximum upset price per acre at
which Rural Waste Land of the Crown
within the said Province of Nelson shall be
offered for sale by auction as provided for by
the Waste Land Regulations of the said
Province mentioned in the Schedule to the
said Act, shall be the sum of two pounds
sterling.

And doth declare that this order shall come
into operation and take effect on the first day
of September next.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 10th August, 1863.

His Excellency the Governor directs the
publication of the following Despatch,
with its enclosure, from Lieut.-General Cam-
eron, C.B.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Head Quarters, Queen's Redoubt,
7th August, 1863.

SIR,—I have the honor to forward for your
Excellency's information, copy of a report
from Captain Sullivan, Senior Naval Officer at
this station, of a reconnaissance which he made
at my request of the banks of the Waikato, as
far as the Native village of Mere-Mere, in the
Colonial steamer "Avon."

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,

D. A. CAMERON,
Lt.-General.

His Excellency Sir George Grey,
K.C.B., &c., &c.

Banks of the Mangatawhiri,
August 6th, 1863.

Sir,—I have the honor to inform you that
in compliance with your request of this morn-
ing, I proceeded in the Colonial Steamer
"Avon," to reconnoitre the Waikato River
above Kohe-Kohe, and found, after passing that
village about three-quarters of a mile, another
settlement on the proper right bank of the
river, which I take to be Mere-Mere.

2. When it first came in view, sixty or
   seventy Maories were assembled in a small
   open space near their whares; these at once
   took to the bush, and in a few minutes opened
   a sharp fire of musketry on the vessel.

3. Being ignorant of the pilotage of the
   river, and unwilling to run the chance of
   grounding the vessel under such circumstances,
   I deemed it prudent to come to an anchor