THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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the following additional regulation for the sale of land
taken under "The New Zealand Settlements Act,
1863," in the Districts of Ngatiawa, Middle Taranaki,
and Ngatiruanui, that is to say :-

ADDITIONAL REGULATION.

Every selection shall be subject to the laying out and
construction of such drains and ditches for leading
water from the adjoining lands, as may be ordered
within five years after the date of selection by the
Commissioner of Crown Lands, or any person duly
authorized by the Colonial Secretary.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-second day of July, 1868.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS by "The Petty Sessions Act, 1865,"
it is enacted that the said Act shall come into
operation in each of the Provinces of New Zealand
respectively on and from a day or days to be fixed
in respect of each of such Provinces by the Governor
in Council, whereof notice shall be published in the
New Zealand Gazette, and in the Gazette of the
Province to which the same shall relate:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance and exercise of the power so vested in him
as aforesaid, doth hereby, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the Colony, appoint and
fix the first day of August next to be the day on and
from which "The Petty Sessions Act, 1865," shall
come into operation in the Provinces of Hawke's Bay,
Mariborough, Otago, and Southland, respectively.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-second day of July, 1868.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS by "The Petty Sessions Act, 1865,"
it is enacted that the said Act shall come into
operation in each of the Provinces of New Zealand
respectively on and from a day or days to be fixed
in respect of each of such Provinces by the Governor
in Council. And whereas by the said Act it is further
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 the said Courts
respectively 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.

And whereas by an Order in Council, bearing date
the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance and exercise of the power in that behalf
vested in him as aforesaid, did, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
appoint and fix the first day of June, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, to be the
day on and from which "The Petty Sessions Act,
1865," should come into operation within the
Province of Auckland.

And whereas by an Order in Council, bearing
even date herewith, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance and in exercise of the power in that
behalf vested in him as aforesaid, did fix the first
day of August next to be the day on and from
which "The Petty Sessions Act, 1865," should
come into operation in the Provinces of Hawke's
Bay, Marlborough, Otago, and Southland, res-
pectively. And whereas by an Order in Council,
bearing date the sixth day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six, His Excellency the
Governor, in pursuance and in exercise of the power
in that behalf vested in him as aforesaid, did define
certain districts in the Province of Auckland to be
the districts within and for which Courts of Petty
Sessions should be held for the purposes of the said
Act. And whereas it is expedient to abolish the
districts aforesaid, and to define districts within the
Provinces of Auckland, Hawke's Bay, Marlborough,
Otago, and Southland, respectively, within and for
which Courts of Petty Sessions shall be held for the
purposes of the said Act:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fer-
guson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in
pursuance and in exercise of the power in this behalf
vested in him as aforesaid, doth hereby, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, abolish the districts within the Province
Auckland, defined in the said Order in Council
of the sixth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six, and with the like advice
and consent doth hereby define the districts following
to be the districts within and for which Courts of
Petty Sessions shall be held for the purposes of the
said Act, that is to say:-

PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.

Mangonui District.

This district comprises the counties of Wynyard
and Mangonui, with the exception of that portion of
the county of Mangonui which is situated South of
the parishes of Maungataniwha, Kohumaru, and
Whakapaku.

Bay of Islands District.

Bounded on the North by the county of Mangonui,
and by the parishes of Maungataniwha, Kohumaru,
and Whakapaku, and by the Whangaroa Harbour; on
the North-east by the sea; on the South by the
Whananaki Inlet, the Opuawhanga Block No. 2, the
Mataroa, Whakahara, and Wairua Rivers, and by the
southern boundary of the county of Hokianga; and
on the South-west by the sea.

Whangarei District..

Bounded on the North by the county of Hokianga,
by the Wairua, the Whakahara, and the Mataroa
Rivers, by a line forming the boundary of the Opua-
whanga Block No. 2, and by the Whanaraki Inlet;
on the East by the sea; on the South by the Manga-
whai Block, and the parishes of Pukorokoro, Piroa,
Paparoa, Hukatere, and Te Kuri; and on the South-
west by the sea.

Port Albert District.

Bounded on the North by the parishes of Tatarariki,
Matakohe, and Mareretu, and by the Waipu Block;
on the East by the sea; on the South by the parishes
of Okura, Pukeatua, and Ararimu; and on the South-
west by the Kaipara Harbour, and by the sea,
including the islands adjacent thereto.

Kaipara District.

Bounded on the North by the Kaipara Harbour
and the parishes of Kaukapakapa and Waiwera; on
the North-east by the sea; on the South by the parish
of Takapuna, the Waitemata Harbour, the parishes of
Waiparera and Waitakerei; and on the South-west
by the sea.

Auckland District.

Bounded on the North-west by Native land, the
Kumeu River, the parish of Paremoremo and the
behalf vested in him as aforesaid, did, with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
abolish the districts within the Province of Auckland,
defined in the said Order in Council of the sixth day
of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
and with the like advice and consent doth hereby define
the districts following to be the districts within and
for which Courts of Petty Sessions shall be held for the
purposes of the said Act: