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Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross 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
twenty-ninth day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.
'G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Altering Names of North Ashburton and Lower Ash-
burton Road Districts, County of Ashburton.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation bearing date the
twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine, the road districts
respectively described in the First and Second Sche-
dules thereto were constituted new districts under
the respective names of "The North Ashburton
Road District" and "The Lower Ashburton Road
District:"

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me
by "The Canterbury Roads Ordinance, 1872," "The
Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," and "The Can-
terbury Roads Ordinance Amendment Act, 1877,"
do hereby declare and proclaim that the aforesaid
Proclamation is revoked so far as relates to the
names of the said road districts:

And I do hereby further declare and proclaim that,
from and after the date hereof, the name of the road
district described in the First Schedule to the aforesaid
Proclamation shall be "The Wakanui Road District,"
and the name of the road district described in the
Second Schedule to the aforesaid Proclamation shall
be "The Longbeach Road District.'

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross 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
twenty-ninth day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.
G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Bank Holiday in Napier, and Counties of Hawke's
Bay, Waipawa, and Wairoa.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and au-
thorities enabling me in that behalf, I, Hercules
George Robert Robinson, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare
that, by Order in Council made under the provisions
of "The Bank Holidays Act, 1873," of even date
herewith, I have appointed Thursday, the ninth
day of October next, to be observed as a bank
holiday, under and for the purposes of the above-
mentioned Act, within the Borough of Napier,
and the Counties of Hawke's Bay, Waipawa, and
Wairoa.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross 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
thirtieth day of September, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.
G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

County of Timaru constituted.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a petition was presented to the
persons holding property of the annual value of
seventy-one thousand two hundred pounds, being not
less than three-fifths of the county electors contained
within that portion of the County of Geraldine in-
cluded within the boundaries particularly set forth
in the Schedule hereto, and containing in the whole
an area of two hundred and one thousand four
hundred and nine acres, more or less, in extent:

And whereas the said petition prayed the Governor
to constitute the said portion of the County of
Geraldine a new county, and set forth the boundaries
of the proposed new county:

And whereas such petition was publicly notified in
the Timaru Herald of the fourth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, being not
less than one month before such presentation to the
Governor:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robin-
son, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said colony, by virtue and in exercise
of the power vested in me by the fourteenth section of
"The Counties Act, 1876," do hereby proclaim and
declare that the aforesaid portion of the County of
Geraldine shall constitute a new county, to be called
"The County of Timaru," and that the boundaries of
the said new county so constituted shall be those
particularly set forth in the Schedule hereto, and the
said new county is hereby constituted accordingly:

And I do hereby further proclaim and declare that
the said County of Timaru shall be divided into three
ridings, to be called the Levels Riding, the Opihi
Riding, and the Ngawai Riding, the boundaries
whereof shall be those particularly set forth in the
Second Schedule hereto: And I do hereby further
proclaim and declare that the number of members of
the County Council of the said County of Timaru
shall be for the Riding of Levels, three members; for
the Riding of Opihi, three members; and for the
Riding of Ngawai, three members.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

BOUNDED towards the North-west by the Opawa
Stream, from its source to its confluence with the Te
Ngawai River; thence by the middle of that river