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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1881.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1881.

Boundaries of District Court District of Christ-
church altered.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, 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
eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight, 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 Christchurch:"

And whereas it is expedient to further alter the
boundaries of the said district so defined as afore-
said:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the powers and authority
vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim
and declare that, from and after the fourteenth day of
February next, the boundaries of the district within
which the District Court of Christchurch shall be
held shall be altered, and that thenceforth the boun-
daries thereof shall be the boundaries hereinafter
described.

THE DISTRICT COURT OF CHRISTCHURCH.
Description of District.

All that area of land in the Provincial District of
Canterbury, bounded towards the North by a right
line from the saddle between the sources of the

Teremakau and Hurunui Rivers to the source of the
said Hurunui River; and thence by the middle of
that river to the sea; thence towards the East by the
sea to the Rakaia River; thence towards the South-
west by the left bank of that river to its source in
the Southern Alps; and thence by a right line due
west to the summit of the said Southern Alps; and
thence towards the North-west by lines along the
summit of the said Southern Alps to saddle at the
sources of the Teremakau and Hurunui Rivers, the
starting point.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Honourable Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Dis-
tinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Her Majesty's High
Commissioner for the Western Pacific,
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 Napier,
this twenty-ninth day of January, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one.

WM. ROLLESTON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Constituting District Court of Ashburton.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Districts Courts Act, 1858,"
it is enacted that there shall be within the
Colony of New Zealand Courts of Record, possessing
civil and criminal jurisdiction, to be called District
Courts, and the Governor is empowered from time
to time, as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the