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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

The Sheriff's District of Marlborough.
This district comprises all the territory within the
Province of Marlborough.

The Sheriff's District of Westland.
This district comprises all the territory within the
Province of Westland.

The Sheriff's District of Canterbury.
This district comprises all that portion of the
Province of Canterbury not included in the Sheriff's
District of Timaru hereinafter defined.

The Sheriff's District of Timaru.
This district is bounded towards the North-east by
the southern bank of the Ashburton River from its
mouth to the source of its main branch, and by a
right line north-west, true bearing, to the summit of
the main range of the Southern Alps; towards the
North-west by the said summit of the main range of
the Southern Alps to Mount Aspiring; towards the
South by the southern boundary of the Province of
Canterbury from Mount Aspiring to the mouth of
the Waitaki River; and towards the East by the sea.

The Sheriff's District of Otago.
This district comprises the whole of the Province
of Otago, excepting that portion contained in the
Sheriff's District of Southland, hereinafter defined,
together with the adjacent islands.

The Sheriff's District of Southland.
This district is bounded towards the North by a
right line from the summit of Takerahaka Peak in
the Eyre Mountains to the junction of the Windley
Creek with the Oreti River, and thence by a right
line due west to the Waiau River; towards the West
by the Waiau River to the sea; thence towards the
South by the sea to the mouth of the Mataura River;
and towards the East by the Mataura River to its
source, and thence by a right line to the summit of
Takerahaka Peak, the commencing point. Together
with Centre Island and other adjacent islands, and
Stewart Island and its adjacent islands.

The Sheriff's District of Chatham Islands.
This district comprises all the group of Islands
known as the Chatham Islands.

Appointing a Justice of the Peace under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

Marquis of Normanby, the Administrator of the
Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the said power and authority
in me vested in that behalf, do hereby appoint

GEORGE CLIFF, Esq.,

the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough
of Timaru, to be a Justice of the Peace under
the one hundred and thirty-third section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl
of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George; Administrator of the Go-
vernment in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depend-
encies; at the Government House at
Wellington, this thirtieth day of De-
cember, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Appointment of a Justice of the Peace under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

NORMANBY,
Administrator of the Government.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough, as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough, to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election, and of the person
elected; and it shall be lawful for the Governor, if
he shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be
a Justice of the Peace, by warrant under his hand,
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
colony; and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is
made under the one hundred and thirty-third section
of the said Act; and it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during the
Mayoralty of such person, and the person so ap-
pointed shall not, by virtue of such appointment, be
authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Administrator of the
Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the said power and
authority in me vested in that behalf, do hereby
appoint

EDWARD CHURTON, Esq.,

the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough
of Wanganui, to be a Justice of the Peace under the
one hundred and thirty-third section of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1867."

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the.