THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 325

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 comprised
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 fol-
lows:

MATAURA.

All that area bounded on the South by the southern
boundary of Run 132; thence by the Mimahau Stream
to the Mataura River; thence by the north-eastern
and northern boundaries of the Mataura 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 Lindhurst Stream;
thence by the Lindhurst Stream to its junction with
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 Stream; thence by the
Pukerau Stream and eastern boundaries of Runs 131
and 132 to the starting point.

NOKOMAI AND SWITZERS.

Comprises all that area bounded by a line from
Lorn Peak, near the southern extremity of Lake
Wakatipu, westwards to a point in the boundary of
the late Province of Southland two miles above the
junction of the Allanburn with the River Mataura,
which forms the said provincial boundary; thence
southwards along the Mataura River to the Otamita
Creek; on the South (crossing the river) by a line
due east until it cuts the Waikaka Stream; thence
northwards along the Waikaka to the source of its
eastern branch; thence to the Leithen Stream, and
by the Leithen Stream to the Pomahaka River, and
by the Pomahaka River to the junction of Spylaw
Burn; thence straight to Wart Hill; thence by the
Umbrella Mountains to a point due west of Jordan
Creek at its junction with the Clutha River; thence
by the ranges to Rocky Mountain; thence direct to
Lorn Peak, the starting point.

POPOTUNA.

Comprises all that area bounded by a line com-
mencing at a bend of the Pukerau Stream 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 south-
wards, 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, 132, and
131, to the starting point.

WYNDHAM.

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by
the Mimahau Stream and southern boundary of
Run 132; thence in a southerly direction along the
eastern boundaries of Runs 251 and 161 to Run 177;
thence along the Tautuku 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 Ma-
taura River to the starting point.

INVERCARGILL.

Bounded on the East by the Mataura River to the
north-eastern boundary of the Mataura Hundred;
on the North by the north-eastern and northern
boundaries of the Mataura Hundred to its north-
western corner; thence by a right line to the source
of the nearest branch of the Lindhurst Stream to its
its junction with the Lindhurst stream; thence along
the Lindhurst Stream to its junction with the Maka-
rewa River; thence along the Makarewa River to its
junction with the Otapiri Stream; thence along the
Otapiri Stream to the east boundary of the Winton
Hundred; thence southerly along said boundary to
the south boundary of the Winton Hundred; thence
along the south boundaries of the Winton and Oreti
Hundreds to the Waimatuku River; on the west by
the Waimatuku River; on the South by the sea and
Campbelltown District.

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

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; Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at the Government House
at Auckland, this second day of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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 fourth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, the then
Governor, in pursuance of the power and authority
vested in him, did, amongst others, constitute a •