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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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 twenty-fifth day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, the
Governor, in pursuance of the said recited power and
authority, did amongst others constitute a district
in the Province of Otago, called the "Popotuna"
District for the purposes of the said Act, the
boundaries whereof were therein set forth, which
said Proclamation came into operation and took
effect on the first day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of
the said Proclamation 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 said 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:-

LOWER MATAURA DISTRICT.
Comprises all that area bounded by a line pro-
ceeding from the Mataura River along the southern
boundary of Run 131 to the Waipahi River; thence
in a southerly direction along the eastern boundaries
of Runs numbered respectively 132, 251, and 161 to
Run 177; thence along the Tautuka bush boundaries
of Runs 177, 62, and 61 to the ocean; thence in a
westerly direction by the ocean beach to the
Mataura River; and thence in a northerly direction
along the Mataura River to the starting-point.

POPOTUNA DISTRICT.
Comprises all that area bounded by a line com-
mencing at the junction of the Waikaka Stream with
the River Mataura; proceeding thence along the
said stream to the junction of the Pukerau or
Taylor's Creek; thence along the Pukerau to a point
due West of the junction of the Waipahi Stream
with the Pomahaka River; thence due East to the
said Pomahaka River; thence by the Tapanui
Ranges to the summit; thence due East to a point
twenty chains West of the Clutha River; thence
Southwards, parallel to the Clutha River, to a point
opposite the junction of the Crookburn; thence
easterly to the Clutha River; thence along the
Clutha River to the northern angle of the West
Clutha Hundred; thence along the north-western
and south-western boundaries of the said Hundred
and the western boundary of Catlin's Hundred to
the ocean; thence westerly along the ocean beach
to Run 61; thence northerly, along the eastern
boundaries of Runs 61, 62, 177, 161, 251, and 132,
and the southern boundary of Run 131, to the
Mataura River, and along the Mataura River to the
junction of the Waikaka Stream, the starting-point.

And I do declare that this Proclamation shall
come into operation and take effect on the first day
of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

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 fourteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.
W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by "The Marriage Act Amendment
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 twenty-fifth day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, the
Governor, in pursuance of the said recited power and
authority, did amongst others constitute a district
in the Province of Otago, called the "Popotuna"
District for the purposes of the said Act, the
boundaries whereof were therein set forth, which
said Proclamation came into operation and took
effect on the first day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of
the said Proclamation 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 said 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:-

LOWER MATAURA DISTRICT.
Comprises all that area bounded by a line pro-
ceeding from the Mataura River along the southern
boundary of Run 131 to the Waipahi River; thence
in a southerly direction along the eastern boundaries
of Runs numbered respectively 132, 251, and 161 to
Run 177; thence along the Tautuka bush boundaries
of Runs 177, 62, and 61 to the ocean; thence in a
westerly direction by the ocean beach to the
Mataura River; and thence in a northerly direction
along the Mataura River to the starting-point.

POPOTUNA DISTRICT.
Comprises all that area bounded by a line com-
mencing at the junction of the Waikaka Stream with
the River Mataura; proceeding thence along the
said stream to the junction of the Pukerau or
Taylor's Creek; thence along the Pukerau to a point
due West of the junction of the Waipahi Stream
with the Pomahaka River; thence due East to the
said Pomahaka River; thence by the Tapanui
Ranges to the summit; thence due East to a point
twenty chains west of the Clutha River; thence