Numb. 27.

323

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1876.

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

(L.S.) NORMANBY, 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 Proclama-
tion in the New Zealand Gazette, to divide the colony,
for the purposes of the said Act, into such and so
many districts as he shall think fit, and that every
such district shall be called by a distinct name, and
shall be a Registrar's District: Provided always that
the Governor may at any time revoke the whole or
any part of such Proclamation, and issue a new Pro-
clamation dividing the colony or any portion 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 then
Governor, in pursuance of the power and authority
vested in him, did, amongst others, constitute a
district for the purpose of the said Act called the
"Nokomai and Switzers" District, the boundaries
whereof were therein set forth, which said Proclama-
tion came into operation and took effect on the first
day of August, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight:

And whereas by a Proclamation duly made and
issued, bearing date the fourteenth day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy, the then
Governor, in pursuance of the said recited power
and authority, did, amongst others, constitute dis-
tricts for the purposes of the said Act, called the
"Popotuna" District and the "Lower Mataura"
District, the boundaries whereof were therein set
forth, which said Proclamation came into operation
and took effect on the first day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy:

And whereas by a Proclamation duly made and
issued, bearing date the sixteenth day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, the then
Governor, in pursuance of the said recited power
and authority, did, amongst others, constitute a dis-
trict for the purposes of the said Act, called the
"Invercargill" District, the boundaries whereof
were therein set forth, which said Proclamation
came into operation and took effect on the first day
of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
three:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of
the said Proclamations as relates to the said districts,
and to divide anew the territory comprised within
such districts:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, 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 Proclamations so far as they
relate to the Nokomai and Switzers, Popotuna,
Lower Mataura, and Invercargill Districts, and do
proclaim and declare that the territory formerly com-
prised within the said districts shall be and is hereby
divided, for the purposes of the said Act, into five
districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be
as follow:-

MATAURA.

All that area bounded on the South by the
southern boundary of Run 132; thence by the Mima-
hau Stream to the Mataura River; thence by the
north-eastern and northern boundaries of the Ma-
taura Hundred to its north-western corner; thence
by a right line to the source of the nearest branch of
the Lindhurst Stream to its junction with the Lind-
hurst Stream; thence by the Lindhurst Stream to its
junction with the Makarewa River; on the West by
the Makarewa River to its junction with the Otapiri
Stream; thence by the Otapiri Stream and the east
and north-east boundaries of Run 146 to the Oreti
River; thence by the Oreti River to the southern
boundary of Run 191; on the North by the southern
boundaries of Runs 191, 191 extended, and 394; on
the East by the Mataura River to the Otamita
Creek; thence on the North by a line due east until
it cuts the Waikaka Stream; thence on the East by
the Waikaka Stream to its junction with the Pukerau

ERRATA.-In the New Zealand Gazette, No. 15, of 16th March, 1876, in List of Justices of the Peace appointed, for
"Patrick Commisky," read "Patrick Comiskey." In the New Zealand Gazette, No. 26, page 318, in Lists of Officiating
Ministers under the Marriage Act, for "H. M. Finlaysen," read "A. M. Finlaysen."