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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 70

North-westerly to commencing point, 100 links: as
the same is more particularly delineated upon the
plan marked P.W.D. 8255, deposited in the office of
the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the
Provincial District of Wellington.

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-ninth day of August, in the year
of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-one.

JOHN HALL,
Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.

Approved in Council.
F. P. MURRAY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Boundaries of District Court District of Taranaki
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
thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven, 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 Taranaki:"

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

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 first day of
September next, the boundaries of the district within
which the District Court of Taranaki shall be held
shall be altered, and that thenceforth the boundaries
shall be the boundaries hereinafter described.

THE DISTRICT COURT OF TARANAKI.

Description of District.

All that area bounded towards the North by the
centre of the Mokau River from its mouth to its
most northerly source, and by a right line thence to
Rangitoto Mountain; towards the East by a right
line to the source of the Ongaruhe River, and thence
by the centres of the Ongaruhe, the Ngahuinga (or
Tuhua), and Wanganui Rivers to the junction with
the Tangarakan River; thence towards the South by
a right line to the eastern corner of Mangaotuku
Block; thence by the southern boundary of that
block to its south-west corner; thence by a right
line to the eastern corner of the Ahuroa Block, by
the Patea River; thence by the centre of the Patea
River to its source in Mount Egmont, by a right line
thence to the summit of Mount Egmont, by a right
line thence to the source of the Taungatara River,
and by the centre of the last-mentioned river to its
mouth; and towards the West and North-west by
the ocean to the mouth of the Mokau River, the
starting point.

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-ninth day of August, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-one.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Boundaries of District Court District of Wanganui
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
thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy-seven, 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 Wanganui :"

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

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 first day of
September next, the boundaries of the district
within which the District Court of Wanganui shall
be held shall be altered, and that thenceforth the
boundaries thereof shall be the boundaries herein-
after described.

THE DISTRICT COURT OF WANGANUI.

Description of District.

All that area bounded towards the West, North,
and again towards the West by the Taranaki
District, as described in a Proclamation of even
date herewith, from the mouth of the Taungatara
River to the northern boundary of the Kirikau
Block; again towards the North by that boundary
to the eastern corner of the last-mentioned block;
thence by a right line to the summit of Tongariro
Mountain; thence by right lines from peak to peak
to the summit of Ruapehu Mountain; thence by a
right line to Trig. Station No. 28; thence by a right
line to Trig. Station No. 24 on Te Rotete; thence
by a right line to Trig. Station No. 17; thence by a