THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

That by the said Act, and also in the second column
of the first Schedule to the Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Municipal
Corporations Act, 1867," the said Town of Blenheim
is declared to consist of Sections Nos. 46, 47, 48
Opawa, and of Sections Nos. 1, 3, 50, 51 Omaka, as
shown in the New Zealand Company's Plan of the
Wairau Plain.

That the boundaries of the said town, as above
described, are as follows:---Commencing at the
north-eastern corner of Section No. 50, Omaka, and
bounded towards the North by a public road to the
north-western corner of Section numbered 51, Omaka;
thence on the West by a right line to the south-
western corner of Section numbered 3, Omaka;
thence on the South by the southern boundary of
Sections numbered 1 and 3, Omaka; thence on the
East by a public road to the south-western corner of
Section numbered 46, Opawa; thence on the South
by a right line between Sections numbered 45 and 46,
Opawa, to the south-eastern corner of said Section 46,
Opawa; thence on the East by the eastern boundary
of said Section 46, Opawa, to the Omaka River, and
by that line continued across the Omaka River to the
Opawa River; thence by the Opawa River to the
commencing point.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your
Excellency will be pleased to constitute the said
Town of Blenheim a Borough under the provisions
of the said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

And your Petitioners will ever pray.

a Jas. Gorrie
a Jas. Sinclair
a F. J. Litchfield
a Ben. Bomford
a J. T. Robinson
a William Collie
a Jno. S. Carroll
a Elijah Bythell
a P. Flannagan
a Charles Kiernan
a Herman Elbeck
a Wm. Syms
c P. Lawrence
d Henry Pritchard
c Henry Brown
c R. W. Parker
c W. Murray
c H. Ball
c William Booker
c W. H. Hyde
b George Coward
a William Walker
a Samuel Johnson
a Charles J. Rae
a T. W. Millington
a John Paass
a A. McLauchlan
a M. Sklaark
a David Henderson
a William Jeffries
a Joseph Eyles
a F. Tuemmel
a H. Simpson
a Edward Augustus
a Joseph Dempsey
a David Jackson
d Geo. Chas. Carter
c Jas. Jellymam
b F. T. Farmer
c Joseph Rayner
c T. Palmer
d Henry Williams, M.D., L.S.A.
b James Leck
b Robert Rusk
b John Raymond

b Caleb Davies
a J. M. Hutcheson
a J. Kissling
a W. Compton
a William Falconer
a Joseph McArtney
a L. Lewis
a J. Ewart
a John Williams
a Wm. Nosworthy
a Rich. W. Morley
a Henry Dodson
a Thos. Maxted
a C. H. McElwain
a John Shaw
a W. B. Earll
d Henry Silvius
d Jno. Emerson
d Charles Purkiss
b James Tait
b Robert Currie
c Thos. Collins
b William Wrigley
b Thos. Wall
a Jno. Minto
a Wm. M. Nelson
a John T. Robinson
a W. Parker
a J. Kennedy
a V. Venimore
a V. Houitt
a Jno. Hewitt
a Daniel Kitchen
a A. Avery
a William Smith
a William D. Bright
a Alfred Bright
d Thos. Warner
d Edward Simmonds
c Thomas Webster
c William Tatley
b R. D. Nosworthy
b Jas. Bartlett
b John Smith
b Lydia Hoskins
b David Wemyss
b James Guilford
b William Craig

I, Frederick John Litchfield, of Blenheim, in the
Province of Marlborough, and Colony of New
Zealand, merchant, do solemnly and sincerely declare
that all the signatures affixed to the above Petition
with the letter "a" prefixed are the genuine signa-
tures of the persons whose they purport to be, and
that such persons are Inhabitant Householders of the
District therein referred to.

F. J. LITCHFIELD.

Declared at Blenheim, in the Province of Marl-
borough, Colony of New Zealand, this
twenty-seventh day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight,
before me,

WM. DOUSLIN, J.P.

I, John M. Hutcheson, of Blenheim, in the Pro-
vince of Marlborough, and Colony of New Zealand,
merchant, do solemnly and sincerely declare that all
the signatures affixed to the above petition with the
letter "b" prefixed 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.

JOHN M. HUTCHESON.

Declared at Blenheim, in the Province of Marl-
borough, Colony of New Zealand, this