THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 495

Te Anau.
This district is bounded towards the north by the
southern boundary of the Province of Canterbury
from the mouth of the Awarua River to the western
boundary of the Oamaru District hereinbefore defined,
thence by part of the western boundaries of the
Oamaru and Otago Gold Fields Districts hereinbe-
fore defined, and the northern and western boun-
daries of the Province of Southland to the sea at the
mouth of the Waiau River, and on the South and
West by the sea from the mouth of that river to the
mouth of the Awarua River. Including the adjacent
islands.

Southland.
This district comprises all that area included
within the boundaries of the Province of Southland.
Including Stewart Island and the adjacent islands.

Chatham Islands.
This district comprises all the group of islands
situated in the Pacific Ocean in latitude 44° South
and longitude 176° West, and known as the
Chatham Islands.

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 twenty-ninth day of November, 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 "The Intestate Estates Act, 1865,"
it is enacted that the said Act shall come into
force in each Province of the Colony respectively, on
such day as the Governor may fix by proclamation in
the New Zealand Gazette: Now therefore, I, Sir
George Grey, the Governor, as aforesaid, in pursu-
ance and exercise of the said power and authority in
me vested, do hereby appoint and fix the first day of
January next to be the day on and from which the
said "Intestate Estates Act, 1865," shall come into
force within each of the following Provinces, viz. :-

THE PROVINCE OF TARANAKI,
THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO, and
THE PROVINCE OF SOUTHLAND,
in the said Colony.

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, and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at
Wellington, this seventh day of Decem-
ber, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Estates Act Amendment Act, 1866," 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, and as he shall think fit, to abolish any
such district, or alter or vary the boundaries of any
district, or increase the number of such districts:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of the said power and authority in me vested,
do hereby proclaim and appoint the districts comprised
within the boundaries of the Provinces of Taranaki,
Otago, and Southland respectively, to be Curators'
districts for the purposes of the above-mentioned
Acts, and to be respectively called

THE TARANAKI DISTRICT,
THE OTAGO DISTRICT, and
THE SOUTHLAND 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 the
Government House, at Wellington, and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
this seventh day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Approved in Council this seventh day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

Present :
THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in him vested for this purpose, His
Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, doth
hereby appoint the Town of New Plymouth, City
of Dunedin, and the Town of Invercargill, in the
respective Provinces of Taranaki, Otago, and South-
land, to be the places at which

WILLIAM SMITH ATKINSON,
ALFRED ROWLAND CHETHAM STRODE, and
FREDERICK NUTTER,

Esquires, the persons appointed to be Curators of
Intestate Estates within the said Provinces and
Districts shall keep their respective offices.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Approved in Council this seventh day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

Present:
THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Petty Sessions Act, 1865,"
it is enacted that the Governor, from time to
time, by Order in Council, whereof notice shall be
published in the New Zealand Gazette, may constitute
and define districts within and for which Courts of
Petty Sessions shall be held, and such districts or
any of them may, from time to time, in manner
aforesaid, abolish, and the boundaries thereof may
define or alter.