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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1867.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Intestate
Estates Act Amendment Act, 1866," it is enacted
that the Governor may by proclamation published in
the New Zealand Gazette, from time to time, divide
the Colony for the purposes of "The Intestate
Estates Act, 1865," and of the said Amendment Act,
into such and so many districts as he shall think fit,
and every such district shall be called by a distinct
name, and shall be a Curator's District; and in like
manner from time to time, as he shall think fit, to
abolish any such district, and alter or vary the
boundaries of any district, or increase the numbers
of such districts. And it is provided that the
Provinces of this Colony, for which Curators have
before the passing of this Act been appointed, shall
be deemed to be districts defined pursuant to this
said Amendment Act, subject in every respect to be
varied or altered as if defined under the said
Amendment Act.

And whereas the Province of Canterbury is a
Curator's District under the said Acts:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Grey,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, doth
hereby vary and alter the boundaries of the Curator's
District of the Province of Canterbury, and doth
hereby proclaim define and appoint that all that
portion of the Colony comprised within the following
limits, viz.:-from the mouth of the River Awarua,
at the western extremity of the boundary of the
Provinces of Otago and Canterbury, northwards
along the sea-coast to the Five Fingers Rocks between
the Rivers Grey and Buller, thence eastward to the
summit of Mount Faraday, thence along the water-
shed between the tributaries of the said Rivers Grey
and Buller, thence southward along the watershed
between the east and west coast of the Provinces of
Nelson and Canterbury to the point where it
intersects the said boundary of the Provinces of
Otago and Canterbury, thence westward along the
said boundary to the commencing point at the mouth
of the River Awarua, shall be and the same is hereby
constituted a district for the purposes of the said
Act, and shall be called "Westland District."

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Grey, Knight Commander of the
Most Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, at Govern-
ment House, at Wellington, and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, this
tenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The New Zealand
Post Office Act, 1858," it is amongst other things
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council, from time to time, by proclamation to be
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to fix, alter,
and abolish the rates of postage at any time payable
within the Colony for the transmission of letters and
newspapers by post, either between places within New
Zealand or to or from places beyond seas, and at
what time the same shall be paid, and that the postage
so made payable shall be charged and paid accordingly;
and also that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council to make rules and regulations for the
managing of the several Post Offices, and for the
receiving, despatching, conveying, and delivering of
letters. And whereas, by a Proclamation duly made
and issued, bearing date the sixth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the Governor
in Council did, in pursuance of the said recited power
and authority, fix certain rates of postage, and the
times at which the same respectively should be paid.
And whereas it is desirable that the said rates should
be altered as hereinafter mentioned, and that the
printed matter hereinafter mentioned should be
received and despatched, and conveyed by post free of
charge: Now therefore, in exercise of the power and
authority vested in me in this behalf, I, Sir George
Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice