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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Town of Roxburgh 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 Roxburgh,
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-six 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
June, 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 authori-
ties enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby proclaim
and declare that from the fourteenth day of August,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, the
said Town of Roxburgh shall be a borough consti-
tuted under the said "Municipal Corporations Act,
1876," and shall be called the Borough of Roxburgh;
and that the boundaries of such borough shall be
those specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Otago, in
the Colony of New Zealand, containing by admea-
surement four hundred and eighty-two (482) acres,
more or less. Bounded by a line commencing on the
west bank of the Clutha River, and proceeding due
west along the southern boundary of the Teviot
District one thousand (1000) links; thence in a
northerly direction along the Dunedin and Tuapeka
Road one thousand two hundred and thirty (1230)
links; thence due west to the western boundary of
Section 33, Block II., Teviot District, seven hundred
and ninety-six (796) links; thence in a northerly
direction along the western boundary of the said
Block II. seven thousand four hundred and sixty
(7460) links; thence in a north-westerly direction
along the south-western boundary of that block five
thousand and eighty-seven (5087) links; thence in
a north-easterly direction along the south-eastern
boundary of Section 38 of the said Block II., and its
continuation in the same direction to the Clutha
River, one thousand four hundred (1400) links;
thence along that river in a south-easterly direction
eight thousand nine hundred links (8900) links;
thence in a southerly direction along the said Clutha
River nine thousand one hundred (9100) links to
the starting point.

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 Distin-
guished 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
fourteenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Boundaries of Town of Waverley defined, and first
Election of Commissioners of Local Board thereof
appointed.

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

BY virtue and in exercise and pursuance of the
powers and authorities vested in me by "The
Local Boards Act, 1873," of the Province of Wel-
lington, and "The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875,"
I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Nor-
manby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the provisions of
said "Local Boards Act, 1873," shall come into
operation within the district situated in the Pro-
vincial District of Wellington, the boundaries
whereof I hereby define in the Schedule hereto; and
I do hereby declare that the name of such district
shall be the Town of Waverley District; and I hereby
appoint that the first election of Commissioners for
the Local Board of the said district shall be held on
the thirteenth day of September next, at the hour
of twelve noon, at the School-room in the Town of
Waverley: And I do further appoint

WALTER ALLAN GRANT WINCHCOMB
to be Returning Officer to conduct the said first
election of Commissioners.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of
Wellington, bounded towards the North-west by
Section No. 86, three thousand seven hundred and
ten (3710) links, by a road line one hundred (100)
links, by Section No. 104, one thousand five hundred
and fifty-four (1554) links, by Section No. 42, seven
hundred (700) links, again by a road line, five hun-
dred and fifty (550) links, and by Section No. 87,
seven hundred and twenty-one (721) links; towards
the North-east by Section No. 87, one thousand six
hundred and forty-five (1645) links, by a road line,
one hundred and five (105) links, by part of Section
No. 88, one thousand seven hundred and forty-six
(1746) links; again by part of Section No. 88, one
thousand five hundred and seventy-one (1571) links,
by Section No. 89, one thousand six hundred and
sixty-one (1661) links, again by a road line, one hun-
dred (100) links, and by Section No. 319, one thou-
sand six hundred and eighty-six (1686) links;
towards the South-east by Section No. 329, three
thousand five hundred and thirty-five (3535) links,
by Section No. 328, one thousand and eighty-five
(1085) links, by a road line one hundred and twenty
(120) links, and by Section No. 336, two thousand
nine hundred and forty-five (2945) links; towards
the South-west by Section No. 337, one thousand
six hundred and eighty-nine (1689) links, by a road