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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1867.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Marriage Act Amendment
Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor at any time, by proclamation
in the New Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony of
New Zealand, for the purposes of the said Act, into
such and so many districts as he may think fit, and
that every such district shall be called by a distinct
name, and shall be a Registrar's District; and it is
provided that the Governor may at any time revoke
the whole or any part of such proclamation, and
issue a new proclamation dividing the Colony or any
part of it, anew into districts, or increasing the
number or altering the boundaries of districts, as
from time to time he may think requisite.

And whereas by a proclamation duly made and
issued, bearing date the twenty-second day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, the
Governor in pursuance of the said recited power and
authority, did, amongst others, constitute a district
in the Province of Nelson, called "The River Grey
District," for the purposes of the said Act, the
boundaries whereof were therein set forth.

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of
the said proclamation as relates to the said district,
and to divide anew the territory formerly comprised
within such district:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of the said Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in me by the said recited
Act, do hereby revoke the said proclamation so far
as relates to the said district, and do proclaim and
declare that the territory formerly comprised within
such district shall be and is hereby divided for the
purposes of the said Act into three districts, the
names and boundaries whereof shall be as follows:

COBDEN DISTRICT.
Commencing at the mouth of the Tikopihi on the
sea coast, and by that stream to Mount Faraday;
thence in a straight line to the junction of the
Waituhu with the Thackeray River, thence in a
straight line to Mount Franklin, thence by the
watershed of the Spenser Mountains to Mount
Hochstetter, thence by a straight line to the saddle
between the sources of the Hurunui and Teramakau
Rivers, thence in a straight line to the northernmost
point of Lake Brunner, thence down the Arnold
River to its junction with the River Grey, thence
down the River Grey to the sea coast.

GREYMOUTH DISTRICT.
Commencing at the mouth of the River Grey,
thence up the southern bank of that river to its
junction with the Arnold, thence up the Arnold to
the northernmost point of Lake Brunner, thence in
a straight line to the saddle between the sources of
the Hurunui and Teramakau Rivers, thence down the
River Teramakau to the sea coast.

HOKITIKA DISTRICT.'
Commencing at the mouth of the River Teramakau,
thence up the southern bank of that river to the
saddle between the sources of the Hurunui and
Teramakau Rivers, thence to the source of the Cour-
tenay River, thence by the western boundaries of the
Christchurch and Ashburton Districts respectively,
and thence from the source of the Rangitata in a
straight line to Abut Head.

And I do declare that this proclamation shall come
into operation and take effect on the first day of
February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
seven.

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 the
Government House, at Wellington, and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
this twelfth day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!