Numb. 102.

1415

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1883.

Districts reconstituted under "The Marriage Act, 1880."

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in the Governor by "The Marriage Act, 1880," I,
William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing
marriage districts known as the Christchurch and
Lyttelton Districts; and do proclaim and declare that
the territory heretofore comprised within the said districts is
hereby divided anew into two marriage districts, the names
and boundaries whereof shall be as follow:-

CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Canterbury
bounded towards the North by the Waimakariri River;
towards the East by the sea to Whitewash Head; towards
the South-east generally by a leading spur, thence to the
Borough of Lyttelton; thence by that borough and Akaroa
County to the mouth of the River Halswell; thence towards
the South-west generally by Lake Ellesmere and the right
bank of the Selwyn River to the Great South Road; and
towards the North-west generally by that road, the Greendale
and Station Road, and the Selwyn and Waimakariri Road
produced to the Waimakariri River.

LYTTELTON DISTRICT.

All that area in the Provincial District of Canterbury
bounded towards the North and North-west by the Christ-
church District before described to Whitewash Head;
towards the North-east by the sea to the highest ridge
of hills separating Port Levy and Pigeon Bay; towards the
South-east by that ridge, passing over Mount Sinclair to
the south side of the Purau and Akaroa Road, and by a right
line to the source of the Little River, thence by that river
and Lake Forsyth to the sea; towards the South by the sea
to the mouth of Lake Ellesmere; again towards the North
and towards the South-west by that Lake and the Christ-
church District before described.

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

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William
Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General
in Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath, 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-seventh day of September, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-three.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in the Governor by "The Registration of Births
and Deaths Act, 1875," I, William Francis Drummond
Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby abolish the existing registration districts known as
the Christchurch and Lyttelton Districts; and do proclaim
and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within
the said districts is hereby divided anew into two registration
districts, the names whereof shall be the Christchurch and
Lyttelton 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 fifteenth day of October, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William
Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General
in Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of
the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honour-
able Order of the Bath, 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 Wel-
lington, this twenty-seventh day of September, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-three.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

ERRATUM.—In the New Zealand Gazette No. 96, of the 20th September, 1883, page 1334, in statement by the Clerk
of the Vincent County Council that depasturing regulations for districts within the county were approved and con-
sented to at a meeting of the "County Council of Tuapeka," read "County Council of Vincent."