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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

Boundaries of District Court District of Wanganui
altered.

our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two.

THOMAS DICK.

(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 Wanganui:"

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the
twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one, the boundaries of the said
district were altered:

And whereas it is expedient to further alter the
boundaries of the said district so defined and altered
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
February next, the boundaries of the district within
which the District Court of Wanganui shall be held
shall be altered, and that thenceforth the boundaries
shall be the boundaries hereinafter described.

THE DISTRICT COURT OF WANGANUI.

Description of District.

All that area bounded towards the West and
North-west by the Taranaki District Court District,
as described in a Proclamation of even date here-
with, to the northern boundary of the Kirikau
Block; thence by that boundary to the eastern
corner of the said block; thence towards the North-
east by a line from the eastern corner of the
Kirikau Block aforesaid drawn to the summit of the
Tongariro Mountain; thence towards the East by
right lines from peak to peak to the summit of Rua-
pehu Mountain; thence by a right line to Trigono-
metrical Station No. 28, on the boundary of Hawke's
Bay County; towards the East, North, and again
towards the North-east by said county; thence again
towards the East and South-east by lines from peak to
peak along the summits of the Ruahine and Tararua
Ranges to the north-eastern corner of the Wellington
Highway District; thence towards the South by the
northern boundary of the said highway district to
Cook Strait; thence by the shores of Cook Strait
and the ocean to the Waitotara 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
eighteenth day of January, in the year of

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Powers under "Lunatics Act, 1868," delegated, Nel-
son, Canterbury, and Otago.

A. GORDON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
seventeenth day of January, 1882.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council bearing date
the tenth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine, the powers granted to the
Colonial Secretary under the seventy-fourth and
seventy-fifth sections of "The Lunatics Act, 1868,"
were delegated to Lowther Broad and George Lilly
Mellish, and by an Order in Council bearing date
the twenty-second day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine, the said powers were
delegated to William Lawrence Simpson: And
whereas it is expedient to delegate the said powers
in manner hereinafter expressed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Colony, doth, by this present order, delegate to the
persons named in the first column of the Schedule
hereto the powers granted to the Colonial Secretary
under the seventy-fourth and seventy-fifth sections
of the said Act, and doth hereby order that the said
powers shall be exercised by the said persons within
the district placed opposite the name of each respec-
tively in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Re-delegating powers to the Auckland Domain Board.

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
seventeenth day of January, 1882.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the twelfth section of "The
Public Domains Act, 1881," it is enacted that
the Governor, by Order in Council, may from time
to time delegate all or any of the powers by the said
Act conferred, except the powers conferred by
section five and the said section twelve, to any
person or persons or body corporate for any period,
and subject to such stipulations as may be specified
in such order, and that every such delegation may
from time to time in like manner be altered or
revoked:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor, by
Order in Council made on the nineteenth day of