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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Registration 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 sixth day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine, the Governor, in
pursuance of the said recited power and authority,
did, amongst others, constitute a district for the
purposes of the said Act, called the "Bay of Islands
District," the boundaries whereof were therein set
forth, which said proclamation came into operation
and took effect on the first day of October one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine. And whereas
it is expedient to revoke so much of the said procla-
mation as relates to the said district, and to divide
anew the territory formerly comprised within such
district:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
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 "Bay of Islands
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 two districts, the names and boundaries
whereof shall be as follows:—

BAY OF ISLANDS DISTRICT.

Bounded on the North by the harbour of the Bay
of Islands, from Tapeka Head to Cape Brett; on the
north-east by the sea, from Cape Brett aforesaid to
the North Head of Ngunguru River; on the south-
west by the Ngunguru River aforesaid, and by a line
drawn from the source thereof to the south-eastern
extremity of the Ruapekapeka Block; thence by the
south-eastern and southern boundaries of said block
to the Otiria River; and on the west by the Otiria
River aforesaid, to the Kawakawa River; thence by
said river and the harbour of the Bay to Tapeka
Head, the point of commencement.

WAIMATE DISTRICT.

Bounded on the north-east by the sea, the mid-
channel of the Bay, and the mid-channel of the
Kawakawa River to its confluence with the Haretu
River; on the South by a line drawn from the con-
fluence of the Kawakawa and Haretu Rivers afore-
said to the eastern extremity of the Omapere Lake;
on the south-west by a line drawn from the eastern
shore of the Omapere Lake aforesaid to the summit
of Maungataniwha; and on the north-west by a line
drawn from the summit of Maungataniwha to the
southern extremity of the southernmost of the Cavalli
Islands.

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

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in

and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, and issued under the
Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington,
this eighteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be
notified for general information, that on the
eleventh instant, he received a letter from the Duke
of Edinburgh, stating that His Royal Highness
had been unanimously advised by his medical
attendants that the state of his health would not
permit him to venture on the fatigues which his
proposed visit to New Zealand would entail. His
Royal Highness at first combated this opinion, and
finally yielded with great reluctance to the strong
representations of Commodore Lambert and of his
medical advisers, who combined to urge the necessity
of his immediate return to England.

His Royal Highness desires that it may be made
known both to the Colonists and to the Maoris, that
he feels deep regret and disappointment at having
been thus forced to abandon, on the present occasion,
his proposed visit to New Zealand. His Royal
Highness had looked forward with great pleasure
and interest to his reception, both by the Europeans
and the Natives; and had fully intended to carry out
the programme submitted to him by the Governor,
which included visits to the Native Districts, and to
all the principal places in the North, and in the
Middle Island.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1868.

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

E. W. STAFFORD.

Downing Street,
25th January, 1868.

SIR, —I have to acknowledge the receipt of Sir
George Grey's Despatch, No. 124, of 8th November,
forwarding an Act which he had reserved for the
signification of Her Majesty's pleasure "to alter the
salary of the Governor of New Zealand."

I regret that this subject, if it was to be mooted
at all, should not have been moved in a previous
session, in anticipation of the then approaching
completion of the Governor's term of service, instead
of being raised after his successor had been selected
and had accepted the appointment.

I by no means consider that good grounds for the
reduction as well as the increase of the salary of a
Governor may not frequently exist, but the great
point at which to aim is, that the salary should be
fixed at such an amount as to secure the services of
competent men, and enable them to fulfil properly
the social as well as other duties of their station.

The salary of the Governor was originally fixed
at £2,500, when the revenue of the Colony was
£161,287, and the population, 26,707. It was
increased in 1858 to £3,500, the revenue then being
£666,655, and the population 61,224; and again in
1862 it was found expedient by the Colony, without
any suggestion from Her Majesty's Government, to
recommend a further increase to £4,500. The
recommendation was made by the Colonial Govern-