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DIEU ET MON DROIT

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1878.

Boundaries of District Court District of Otago
Gold Fields altered.

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

WHEREAS by "The District Courts Act, 1858,"
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor from time to time, as he shall think fit, by
Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to con-
stitute throughout the colony, or in any part thereof,
districts within which District Courts shall be re-
spectively held, and such districts to abolish, and the
boundaries thereof to define or alter:

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the
eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-four, a district was defined within which a
District Court should be held under the said Act,
and it was thereby declared that the said Court
should be designated by the name of "The District
Court of Otago Gold Fields:"

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the
tenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five, the boundaries of the said district so
defined were altered:

And whereas it is expedient to further alter the
boundaries of the said district so defined and altered
as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act,
do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after
the first day of February next, the boundaries of the
district within which the District Court of Otago
Gold Fields shall be held shall be altered, and that
thenceforth the boundaries thereof shall be the
boundaries hereinafter described.

THE DISTRICT COURT OF OTAGO GOLD FIELDS.
Description of District.

THIS district comprises all that area bounded to-
wards the North by the Provincial District of Can-
terbury, from the mouth of the River Awarua to a
point on the said boundary line due north of Mount
St. Bathan's; thence towards the East by a right
line due south to the summit of Mount St. Bathan's;
thence again towards the North by a right line due
east to the summit of the Hawkdun Mountains;
thence towards the North-east by right lines from
peak to peak along the said mountains to a point due
west of Little Domett Peak, and thence by a right
line to the summit of Little Domett Peak; thence
towards the East by a right line to the summit of
Kyeburn Hill, thence by right lines from peak to peak
along the summit of the Kakanui Mountains and
the Horse Range, and following the nearest spur to
the ocean at Shag Point, thence by the ocean to the
Waikouaiti River; towards the South and West by
the said river and its northern branch to a point due
east of Trigonometrical Station E on the Silver Peak
Hills, said point being distant in a right line from
confluence of southern and northern branches of said
river three hundred and ninety (390) chains, more or
less; towards the South by a right line from said
point on Waikouaiti River to Trigonometrical
Station E; again towards the East by the watershed
between the Taieri and Waikouaiti Rivers to Silver
Peak, and thence by a right line to the source of
Silver Stream, and along the said stream to the West
Taieri Road; thence towards the South-east and
South by the said road to the boundary of the
hundreds, thence by the boundary of the hundreds
to the east branch of the Tokomairiro River, thence
by the said river to the Main South Road, by the
Main South Road to Lovell's Creek, by Lovell's to
the south-west boundary of Run No. 54, by the said
boundary of said run to the Crookburn, and by the
Crookburn to its junction with the Clutha River,
and thence by a right line to a point twenty (20)
chains due west of the Clutha River; thence towards
the West by a line parallel to the Clutha River to a
point due east of Spylaw Hill, thence again towards
the South and South-east by a right line to the
summit of Spylaw Hill, thence by a right line to the
source of Spylawburn, thence by the Spylawburn to
its junction with the Pomahaka River, thence by the
Pomahaka River to the confluence of the Parasol

ERRATUM.—In the New Zealand Gazette No. 9, of the 24th January, 1878, page 102, in notice of alteration of rates, &c.,
for New Zealand Railways, under heading Grey Gorge Bridge, for "maximum charge, sixpence (6d.)," read "minimum
charge, sixpence (6d.)"