290 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

declare that, in addition to the sections by the said
in part recited proclamation of the twelfth day of
February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight, brought into operation within the district
hereinafter named, the section numbered one hundred
and eleven of “ The Resident Magistrates’ Act, 1867,”
shall, from and after the first day of July next, come
into operation within the district of

KAIAPOI,
as the same is defined in a proclamation bearing date
the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.

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 Public Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-fourth day of
June, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.
Wellington.
This district is bounded from the mouth of the
Manawatu River towards the North and north-west
by that river; towards the south-east by the summit
of the Tararua and Rimutaka Ranges to Cape
Taourakira; and by the sea towards the South, and
towards the West by the sea towards the commencing
point.

Wanganui.
This district is bounded towards the North by the
Taupo District as defined in the said proclamation
of the twenty-ninth day of November, 1867; towards
the East by the western boundary of the Province of
Hawke’s Bay; thence towards the South and towards
the south-east as far as the Manawatu River by the
boundaries of the Wairarapa District as defined in
the said proclamation, and thence again towards the
south-east and South by the Manawatu River afore-
said to its mouth; towards the West and south-west
by the sea from the mouth of the Waitotara River;
thence towards the north-west, the north-east, the West,
and the South, by the Upper Wanganui District as
defined in the said proclamation of the twenty-ninth
day of November, 1867; and again towards the
north-west by the boundary of the Province of
Taranaki to the south-west angle of the Taupo
District aforesaid.

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, at the Government
House, at Wellington, and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-fourth
day of June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.
E. W. STAFFORD.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “ The Resident Magistrates Act,
1867,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, from time to time, by proclamation in
the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout
the Colony, or in any part thereof, districts to be
called Resident Magistrates’ Districts, and such
districts from time to time to abolish, and the
boundaries to define and alter, and in any such
proclamation to fix a time on and from which any
such district shall be constituted or abolished, as the
case may be. And whereas, by a proclamation
bearing date the twenty-ninth day of November,
1867, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance
and in exercise of the powers and authorities so
vested in him, did proclaim and constitute the several
districts described in the Schedule to the now reciting
proclamation, including amongst other districts the
districts of Wanganui, Otaki, and Wellington, as
described in the said Schedule, to be on and from
the first day of January, 1868, Resident Magistrates’
Districts within the meaning and for the purposes of
the said Act.

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the district
of Otaki, as defined in the said proclamation, and to
alter and extend and define, and to proclaim and
constitute the districts of Wellington and Wanganui,
in manner hereinafter appearing, so as to include
the territory hitherto comprised in the Otaki District
aforesaid:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance
and in exercise of the power and authority so vested
in me as aforesaid, do hereby, as from the first day of
July next, abolish the district of Otaki proclaimed
and constituted by the said in part recited proclama-
tion of the twenty-ninth day of November, 1867, and
do hereby alter and extend the respective districts of
Wellington and Wanganui as hereinafter mentioned,
and do proclaim and constitute the said districts as
the same respectively are described in the Schedule
hereto to be on and from the first day of July, 1868,
Resident Magistrates’ Districts within the meaning
and for the purposes of “ The Resident Magistrates
Act, 1867.”

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the seventeenth section of “ The
County of Westland Act, 1867,” it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council,
from time to time, as he may think fit, by proclama-
tion published in the New Zealand Gazette, to make
regulations for the sale, letting, disposal, occupation,
and management of any Waste Lands of the Crown,
and to alter the laws in force within the said County
of Westland, and to sell, let, and dispose thereof at
such prices and in such allotments, and generally in
such manner as he shall deem expedient, and in like
manner to alter, vary, or annul any such regulations,
and to make others, provided that it shall not be
lawful by any such regulations to authorize the sale
of land classified under such regulations as rural
land at a less price than ten shillings per acre, pro-
vided also, that nothing in the said seventeenth
section of the said Act contained shall affect or
authorize the making of regulations to affect any
promise, contract, or engagement made by or on
behalf of Her Majesty previously to the coming into
operation of the said Act, and then incomplete or
unfulfilled.

And whereas His Excellency the Governor in
Council by proclamation bearing date the twentieth
day of March, 1868, with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of New Zealand, did make and