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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

To His Excellency Sir GEORGE FERGUSON
BOWEN, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of the Colony of New Zealand.

WE the undersigned householders resident within
the Municipal District of the Town of Timaru,
humbly pray that your Excellency will be pleased to
constitute the Town of Timaru, a Borough, under the
provisions of "The Municipal Corporations Act,
1867."

The Municipal Town of Timaru bounded on the
North and East by the sea, on the South by the
North boundary of section No. 1072, the North side of
a road lying to the North of section No. 2367, the
cemetery reserve, and the North boundaries of sections
1706 and 1607, on the West by the East boundary
of section No. 1606, the East and North boundary
of section No. 707, the East boundary of section No.
1652 till it meets Whales Creek to the sea.

The Town of Timaru was created a municipality
by a proclamation under the hand of the Superinten-
dent of Canterbury, dated the ninth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and is
incorporated under "The Municipal Council Ordi-
nance," Session 14, No. 2.

And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.

Samuel Hewlings.
Frederick Le Cren,
Henry Salomon.
T. W. Fyte.
Robert Taylor.
D. Munro.
William Knight.
J. H. Wood.
George Williams.
L. Seymour.
Thomas French.
J. Younghusband.
John Bowers.
Edward Cardale.
A. Mills.
James Mair.
Charles Cook.
Andrew Sherratt.
Henry Fanning.
R. A. Chisholm.
W. O. Cuff.
G. A. Medcalf.
William and James Parr.
Edward Holdgate.
William Clarke.
T. O. Plantz.
A. Beldy.
W. E. Rogers.
E. Butler.
A. G. Horton.
J. Gilbert.
John B. Drake.
Eli Yardley.
Frederick Osborn.
G. W. Gardner.
H. Belfield, J.P.
Inwood and Bilton,
Richard Newell.
Henry Foden.
John Melton.
William Upton.
David Murison.
James Shepherd.
G. H. Wildie.
J. G. Borrams.
G. Osborne.
John H. Jenkins.
P. D. McRae.
James Flemming.
Arthur Perry.
F. W. Stubbs.
John King.
Richard Green.
Henry Walden.
William Scarf.
Philip Lane.
Joseph Cockroft.
Henry Cain.
James Cotton.
Edward Green.
W. M. Sims.
J. C. Knight.
William Padget.
P. D. Todd.
William P. Nelson.
J. R. McKenzie.
T. W. Anderson.
James Robertson.
Richard Clarke.
Alexander Erskine.
Peter William Hutton.
R. Simpson, senior.
Charles Flockton.
David Anderson.
Thomas J. Garrett.
John Simpson.
Thomas B. Jones.
Edward Foden.
George Healey.
F. Cullmann.
William Munro.
John Jackson.
G. Cliff.
J. Edward Duff.

I, George Healey, of Timaru, in the Province of
Canterbury, New Zealand, merchant, do solemnly
and sincerely declare that all the signatures affixed
to the above Petition are the genuine signatures
of the persons whose they purport to be, and that
such persons are inhabitant householders of the
district therein referred to.

GEORGE HEALEY.

Superintendent's Office,
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand,
23rd March, 1868.

SIR,-A. Petition praying your Excellency to
constitute the Town of Timaru, in this Province,
a Borough, under "The Municipal Corporations Act,
1867," having been transmitted to me by the
Honorable the Colonial Secretary, in pursuance or
the provisions of the twenty-second section of the
said Act, I have the honor to signify to Your Excel-
lency that I do not dissent to the prayer of that
Petition.

I have, &c.,
W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent of Canterbury.

His Excellency
Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
&c., &c., &c.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1868.

THE following Despatches with enclosures, from
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
the Colonies, are published for general information.

T. M. HAULTAIN,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

[CIRCULAR.]

Downing Street,
11th November, 1867.

SIR,-I transmit to you herewith a copy of a
letter from the Foreign Office, with a circular order