MAR. 31.]

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, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
proclaim and declare that, on and after the thirty-
first day of March instant, the public prisons at
Greymouth and Lawrence shall cease to be public
prisons.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Honorable 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 Dunedin,
this twenty-second day of March, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighty-one.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

County of Raglan excluded from Operation of "The
Dog Registration Act, 1880."

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

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested
in me by the third section of "The Dog Regis-
tration Act, 1880," I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the County of Raglan shall
be excluded from the operation of the said Act.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Honorable 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 the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-fifth day of March, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-one.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Part of Stewart Island County excluded from Opera-
tion of "The Dog Registration Act, 1880."

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

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested
in me by the third section of "The Dog Regis-
tration Act, 1880," I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the area comprised within
the district described in the Schedule hereto shall be
excluded from the operation of the said Act.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 357
SCHEDULE.

THE County of Stewart Island, as described in "The
Counties Act, 1876," excepting the island called
Stewart Island.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Honorable 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 Welling-
ton, this twenty-fifth day of March, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighty-one.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Upper Ashburton, Mount Somers, and Rangitata Road
Districts constituted.

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

BY virtue of the powers vested in me by the
seventh section of the Ordinance of the Province
of Canterbury, intituled "The Canterbury Roads
Ordinance, 1872," and of the powers vested in me by
"The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," and "The
Canterbury Roads Ordinance Amendment Act, 1877,"
I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and
declare that, from and after the date hereof, the
portions of the Upper Ashburton Road District and
the Mount Somers Road District, described in the
First Schedule hereto, shall be severed from the said
road districts, and shall be and are hereby constituted
a new district under the name of the "Rangitata
Road District," and that the remaining portion of the
said Upper Ashburton Road District and of the said
Mount Somers Road District, described in the Second
Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be new districts
under the names of the "Upper Ashburton Road
District" and the "Mount Somers Road District."

FIRST SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF THE RANGITATA ROAD DISTRICT.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District
of Canterbury, bounded towards the North-east by
Section 25993 and by a road-line to and along Section
25995 to the Hinds River, and thence by that river
to the Great Southern Trunk Railway; thence
towards the South-east by that railway, by the Town-
ship of Hinds, and again by said railway to the middle
of the Rangitata River; thence towards the South-
west by the middle of the said river; towards the
North-west by Reserve No. 1357 (in red); and
again towards the North-east by the south branch of
the Ashburton River to Section 25993, the starting
point.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF THE MOUNT SOMERS ROAD
DISTRICT.

Bounded towards the North by a right line com-
mencing at a point on the summit of the Southern
Alps due west of the source of the Rakaia River, and
running thence due east to said source of the Rakaia
River, and by left bank of the said Rakaia River;
towards the East by Mount Hutt Road District, as
described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 28, 1879, to
Run No. 124; towards the South-east by said Run No.