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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Rangitikei-Manawatu Block, and running in an
easterly direction so as to include one hundred and
six thousand acres, and the said northern boundary
line to intersect the eastern boundary line at a point
not less than four miles from the Manawatu Gorge.

"Limits of a block of land containing ten acres,
to be selected by some person duly authorized by
the Corporation from the land still unalienated in
the Township of Palmerston."

And whereas the said block of land hath been
more accurately surveyed and the boundaries thereof
are set forth in the Schedule hereto, and the said
Corporation have given to such block the name of
"The Manchester Block:" And whereas within the
Province of Wellington there are not in my opinion
waste lands of the Crown set apart or taken under
the provisions of the firstly hereinbefore in part
recited Acts, or any other Act, for the purposes and
in the manner therein mentioned:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance of the power and authority vested in me
by the said Acts, and on the recommendation of the
Minister in the said Act mentioned, do hereby
reserve and set apart the block of waste lands of the
Crown particularly described in the Schedule hereto
for the purposes of Immigration, and to be dealt
with under the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF THE MANCHESTER BLOCK.

THE boundary commences at a point bearing 33° 05′
magnetic from the trigonometrical station on Mount
Taylor, and distant from it 52,251 links; thence it
proceeds on a bearing of 313° 0', 64,860 links, to the
northern boundary line of the Rangitikei-Manawatu
purchased block; thence along the said boundary
line on a bearing of 266° 03′, 16,000 links, to a point
called Waitapu, on the left bank of the Rangitikei
River; from thence it follows the boundaries of the
several Native reserves on the left bank of the
Rangitikei River to the Rangitawa Stream, on the
following consecutive bearings and distances, viz. :-
190° 05', 997 links; 183° 02′, 18,130 links; 203° 44',
17,358 links; 113° 44′, 4,300 links; 203° 44′, 4,000
links; 293° 44′, 4,300 links; 344° 48′, 3,112 links;
254° 48', 5,417 links; 254° 52′, 5,722 links; 180° 01',
11,207 links; 143° 01', 11,904 links; 81° 18', 3,300
links; and 171° 18', 1,540 links; thence it proceeds
westerly along the left bank of the Rangitawa
Stream, and along the southern boundary line of the
Reu Reu Native Reserve, on a bearing 253° 27',
1,150 links, to the eastern side of a road line; thence
along the eastern side of the said road line bearing
177° 03′, 12,550 links, to the north corner of the
Mingiroa Native Reserve; thence on lines bearing
consecutively 108° 22′, 3,068 links; and 207°09′,
3,303 links, to the south corner of the said Native
reserve; thence on a line bearing 97° 56′, 8,725
links, to the trigonometrical station on Mount Biggs;
thence on a bearing 97° 43′, 17,852 links, to the
trigonometrical station on Mount Taylor; thence in
a straight line to the north-west corner of the Kawa
Kawa Native Reserve; thence along the northern
boundary of the said reserve to the Oroua River;
thence northerly along the right bank of the said
river to a Native reserve; thence along the inland
boundaries of the said reserve to a point where its
north-eastern boundary strikes the Oroua River;
thence it continues along the said river to the north-
east corner of Section No. 488, Township of Palmer-
ston; thence southerly along the eastern boundary
of the said section to a line of road known as Reid's
Line; thence along the northern side of the said road
line on a bearing of 123° 13', to a point 5,400 links
from the Oroua River; thence it crosses the said
road line and proceeds on lines bearing consecutively
213° 27', 5,769 links, and 197° 46', 4,100 links, to
the Taonui Stream; thence southerly, along the said
stream to the line of railway from Palmerston to
Wanganui; thence along the north-east side of the
said line of railway on lines bearing consecutively
124° 28', 1,200 links; 124° 51', 14,224 links; and
125° 03′, 30,093 links, to the western corner of
Section No. 413, Township of Palmerston; thence
along the south-west boundary of the said Section
No. 413, on a line bearing 136° 07′, 7,993 links, to
the main road line from Palmerston to the Manawatu
Gorge; thence along the north-western side of the
said road on lines bearing consecutively 46° 10', 525
links; 76° 05′, 2,050 links; and 46° 05′, 2,522 links;
thence across the said main road and along the
south-west boundary of Section No. 449, on a line
bearing 136° 40′, 3,350 links, to the Ti Wi Native
Reserve; thence along the boundaries of the said
Native reserve, on lines bearing consecutively 6° 09',
2,253 links; 11° 03′, 583 links; 41° 14', 466 links;
45° 29', 906 links; 49°14′, 1,134 links; and 84° 05',
4,340 links, to the north-east corner of the said
Native reserve; thence on a line bearing 135° 00′,
18,160 links; thence on a line passing through the
Gorge of the Manawatu River, and bearing 20° 00',
60,932 links; and from this last mentioned point it
proceeds in a straight line to the starting point:
excepting always Sections Nos. 412, 413, 451, 452,
453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 462, 463, 464, 465, 475, 476,
and 477, Township of Palmerston; a reserve for a
ferry, containing 100 acres, at the Gorge of the
Manawatu River, on its left bank; the Parakaka
Native Reserve, containing 31 acres, being an island
at the junction of the Pohangina and Manawatu
Rivers; and the Wairarapa Native Reserve, contain-
ing 200 acres, on the right bank of the Pohangina
River.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, 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 twenty-
eighth day of August, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Districts under "The Marriage Act Amendment
Act, 1858."

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, 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 fifth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, the Go-