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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Extending Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate's
Court, Otago Gold Fields.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and autho-
rity in me vested in this behalf by "The Resident
Magistrates Act, 1867," I, George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and
declare that from and after the first day of June
next the jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate's
Court for the

OTAGO GOLD FIELDS DISTRICT,

as the same is defined in a Proclamation bearing date
the eleventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-two, shall be extended to one hundred
pounds.

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 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 the
Government House, at Wellington, this
fifteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby proclaim
and declare that from the fifteenth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, the
said Town of Maori Hill shall be a borough con-
stituted under the said "Municipal Corporations
Act, 1876," and shall be called the Borough of
Maori Hill; and that the boundaries of such
borough shall be those specified in the Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of
Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by
admeasurement twenty-five (25) acres two (2) roods
and seven (7) poles, more or less, being part of
Sections numbered 13, 14, and 155R, Block I., and
8, 9, and 155R, Block II., Upper Kaikorai District,
and comprising the private Townships of Murray-
ville, Williamstown, and McLennan's Subdivision.
Bounded towards the North-west by a line extending
along the centre of the Maori Hill Road eight hundred
and forty-three (843) links; towards the South-west
by part of the said Maori Hill Road thirty (30) links,
and by part of Section numbered 9, four hundred and
twenty-one (421) links; again towards the North-west
by part of Section numbered 7 eight hundred and fifty
(850) links; thence in a South-easterly direction by the
outside boundary line of Well Street and the Maori
Hill Road one thousand and forty (1040) links, two
hundred (200) links, two hundred and thirty (230)
links, and two hundred and forty (240) links; thence
in a south-westerly direction by a line being the
north-west boundary of the Dunedin Town Belt,
nine hundred and forty-seven (947) links; thence in
a North-westerly direction by a line two hundred and
eighty-seven (287) links, two hundred and sixty-seven
(267) links, and eighty-five (85) links; thence again
in a South-westerly direction by a line eight hundred
and twenty-one (821) links; and again in a North-
westerly direction by a line being the north-eastern
boundary of Section numbered 12, one thousand and
forty-five (1045) links, and by part of the Maori Hill
Road thirty-one (31) links, to starting point; be all
the aforesaid linkages more or less.

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 Coun-
cil; Knight Commander 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 the
Government House, at Wellington, this
fifteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Town of Maori Hill proclaimed a Borough under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fifteenth section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," it is
enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation,
declare any of the several places specified in the
Third Schedule to the said Act in which a Municipal
Corporation has been established under the provi-
sions of an Ordinance of the Province of Otago
intituled "The Otago Municipal Corporations Ordi-
nance, 1865," to be a borough constituted under the
said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," from a
day to be named in such Proclamation: subject,
however, to certain conditions in the said section
mentioned: And whereas the Town of Maori Hill,
in the Provincial District of Otago, is one of the
places specified in the said Third Schedule, and
a petition has been presented to His Excellency
the Governor by fifty of the ratepayers of such
town praying him to constitute such town into a
borough under the said "Municipal Corporations
Act, 1876," and such petition was, on the thirteenth
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven, publicly notified, and no petition
from an equal or greater number of such ratepayers
was presented to His Excellency within two months
after such public notification praying him not to
assent to the prayer of such first-mentioned petition:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities
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 Coun-
cil; Knight Commander 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 the
Government House, at Wellington, this
fifteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Defining the Middle Line of part of the Railway
from Amberley to the Bluff (Balclutha to Clinton).

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and twenty-
second section of "The Public Works Act,