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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 96

MATAURA DISTRICT.
All that area in the Provincial District of Otago,
bounded towards the North by the Gore District
before described; towards the East by the Waipahee
River and by the Kaiwera Stream and its most
southerly branch to its source, thence by a right line
to Cairn Hill; towards the South by a right line to
the source of the nearest branch of the Mimihau
Stream, thence by the Mimihau Stream to the Ma-
taura River, thence by the Mataura Hundred and a
right line from the north-west corner of said hundred
to the nearest source of the Lindhurst Stream,
thence by that stream to the Otapiri Stream; and
towards the West by that stream to the Gore Dis-
trict before described.

POPOTUNA DISTRICT.
All that area in the Provincial District of Otago,
bounded towards the North by the Glenkenich Survey
District from the north-east corner of the Waikaka
Survey District to the Pomahaka River; towards
the North-west by the Tapanui Ranges to the Sum-
mit; again towards the North by a right line due
east to a point 20 chains west of the Clutha River;
towards the East by a line parallel to and 20 chains
distant from the Clutha River to a point opposite
Crookburn, thence due east to the Clutha River,
thence by that river to West Clutha Hundred, thence
by that hundred and Catlin's Hundred to the sea;
towards the South by the sea to Chasland's Mistake;
and towards the West by the Fortrose, Wyndham,
Mataura, and Gore Districts.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall
come into operation on the first day of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty.

Given under the hand of His Excellency James
Prendergast, Esquire, Chief Justice, the
Administrator of the Government of Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand; and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at the Government House, at Wellington,
this eighth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Districts constituted under "The Registration of
Births and Deaths Act, 1875."

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and au-
thority vested in the Governor by "The Regis-
tration of Births and Deaths Act, 1875," I, James
Prendergast, Chief Justice, the Administrator of the
Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
abolish the existing registration districts known as
the Nokomai and Switzers, Tapanui, Mataura, and
Popotuna Districts; and do proclaim and declare
that the territory heretofore comprised within the
said districts is hereby divided anew into five regis-
tration districts, the names whereof shall be the Gore,
Nokomai and Switzers, Tapanui, Mataura, and Popo-
tuna Districts, and the boundaries whereof shall be
coterminous with the boundaries of the marriage
districts bearing the same names as are set forth
in a Proclamation of even date herewith, made under
the provisions of "The Marriage Act, 1880:"

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall
come into operation on the first day of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty.

Given under the hand of His Excellency James
Prendergast, Esquire, Chief Justice, the
Administrator of the Government of Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand; and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at the Government House, at Wellington,
this eighth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Abolishing certain Prisons.

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the eighth section of "The Prisons
Act, 1873," it is enacted that, as to any public
prison which the Governor shall be of opinion has
become unfit for the purpose, or unnecessary, or for
any other reason ought to cease to be a public prison,
the Governor may, by Proclamation published in the
New Zealand Gazette, declare that such public prison
shall no longer be a public prison, and upon the
publication of such Proclamation in the New Zealand
Gazette, or from and after any later date fixed in such
Proclamation for the purpose, such public prison
shall cease to be a public prison :

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Ad-
ministrator of the Government of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that,
from and after the first day of November proximo,
the public prisons at Thames, Russell, Opotiki,
Charleston, Reefton, Picton, Arrow, and Queenstown
shall cease to be public prisons.

Given under the hand of His Excellency James
Prendergast, Esquire, Chief Justice, the
Administrator of the Government of Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand; and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at the Government House, at Wellington,
this eighth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty.

WM. ROLLESTON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Constabulary Force Ordinance in force within the
Provincial District of Marlborough.

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN exercise and pursuance of the twenty-sixth
section of an ordinance of the Province of New
Munster, intituled "An Ordinance to Increase the
Efficiency of the Constabulary Force," and of all
other authorities and powers enabling me in that
behalf, I, James Prendergast, Chief Justice, the
Administrator of the Government of Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said