Feb. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 245

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 Christchurch, this thirteenth day
of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-five.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(for the Minister for Public Works.)
God save the Queen!

Districts constituted 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 Gabriel's, Waitahuna, and Popotuna Districts; and do
proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised
within the said districts is hereby divided anew into four
registration districts, the names whereof shall be the Tuapeka
Mouth, Gabriel's, Waitahuna, and Popotuna Districts, and
the boundaries whereof shall be coterminous with the bound-
aries 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 fourteenth day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

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 Christchurch, this
sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

P. A. BUCKLEY.
God save the Queen!

Districts constituted 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 Gabriel's, Waitahuna, and
Popotuna Districts; and do proclaim and declare that the
territory heretofore comprised within the said districts is
hereby divided anew into four marriage districts, the names
and boundaries whereof shall be as follow:—

TUAPEKA MOUTH DISTRICT.

All that area in the Provincial District of Otago bounded
towards the North-east by the Black Cleugh Burn from its
source to its mouth; thence by the Clutha River to a point
in line with the northern boundary-line of Block VIII., Tua-
peka West Survey District; thence towards the North gene-
rally by a right line to the north-western corner of that block;
thence by the road fronting Sections Nos. 6, 5, and 4, Block
XIII., Village Reserve, Block XIV., Sections Nos. 4 and 11,
Block IX., all of Tuapeka West Survey District aforesaid;
thence by the continuation of the said road through the last-
mentioned section and Section No. 17, and along the north-
eastern boundary of the latter section and the north-eastern
boundaries of Sections Nos. 16 and 15, Block IX. aforesaid,
to the easternmost corner of the said Section No. 15; thence
towards the North-east generally by a right line to the
northernmost corner of Section No. 6, Block XI., Waitahuna
West Survey District; thence by Sections Nos. 21, 24, 2, a
road-line, Sections Nos. 7 and 13, Block X., Sections Nos.
7, 3, a road-line, and 1, Block IX., Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 14,
15, 16, 17, and 18, Block VII., all of the Waitahuna West
Survey District aforesaid, to the Waitahuna River; thence
towards the South-east by that river to the Clutha River;
thence towards the South-west and West generally by the
Pomahaka River and Rankle Burn to the source of the latter
in the Tapanui Range; and thence by that range to the
source of the Black Cleugh Burn aforesaid,

GABRIEL'S DISTRICT.

All that area in the Provincial District of Otago bounded
towards the North-west by the Beaumont Burn from the
Clutha River to its source; thence by the summit of the
leading ridge to Lammerlaw Mountain; thence towards the
North-east and South-east by the West Taieri District, as
described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 69, 17th August,
1882, to Waitahuna Hill; thence towards the South-west by
the summit of the leading ridge from Waitahuna Hill to the
summit of the watershed between the Rivers Tuapeka and
Waitahuna; thence again towards the South-east by the said
watershed and by the summit of the leading ridge to the
source of the Crook Burn; thence by the Crook Burn to the
Tuapeka Mouth District, hereinbefore described; thence
again towards the South-west and towards the South gene-
rally by the said Tuapeka Mouth District to the Tapanui
Range; thence again towards the North-west by the summit
of that range to the highest point of Tapanui Hill; thence
towards the North by a line due east to the Clutha River;
and thence by a right line to the confluence of the Clutha
River aforesaid and the Beaumont Burn aforesaid.

WAITAHUNA DISTRICT.

All that area in the Provincial District of Otago bounded
towards the North-east by the Gabriel's District, hereinbefore
described, and the West Taieri District, as described in the
New Zealand Gazette No. 69, 17th August, 1882; towards the
South-east by the West Taieri and the North Tokomairiro
Hundreds; towards the South-west by the Clutha River;
towards the North-west by the Tuapeka Mouth District,
hereinbefore described; again towards the South-west by the
last-mentioned district; and again towards the North-west
by the Gabriel's District aforesaid.

POPOPUNA DISTRICT.

All that area in the Provincial District of Otago bounded
towards the North by the Glenkenich Survey District to the
Pomahaka River, and by the southern boundary-line of that
district produced across the said river; towards the North-
west by the summit of the watershed of the Tapanui Range;
towards the East and the North-east by the Tuapeka Mouth
District, hereinbefore described, and the Clutha River;
again towards the East generally by the Balclutha District,
as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 83, 5th October,
1882, and the Catlin's District, as described in the New Zea-
land Gazette No. 55, 15th June, 1882, to the ocean; towards
the South-east by the ocean; towards the South-west and
West generally by a right line from Chasland's Mistake to
Black Horn; thence by the leading ridge to Bleak Hill;
thence by Runs Nos. 161 and 251 to the Cairn; thence by a
right line to the most southerly source of the Kaiwera
Stream; thence by that stream and by the Waipahi River
to the Southern Trunk Railway; thence by that railway
to the Waikaka Survey District; and thence by that survey
district to the Glenkenich Survey District aforesaid.

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

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 Christchurch, this sixteenth day of
February, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-five.

P. A. BUCKLEY.
God save the Queen!

Altering Times of Meeting of the Land Board of the Land
District of Hawke's Bay.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

WHEREAS by the first subsection of section twenty-
five of “The Land Act, 1877,” it is provided that the
Land Boards of the respective land districts shall sit at the
Land Office in the principal town of the land district, at
certain times to be determined by the Board and approved
of by the Governor, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette :

And whereas by a warrant under the hand of His Excel-
lency the Administrator of the Government, dated the
twenty-first day of September, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the
twenty-third day of September, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty, it was appointed that the Land Board of Hawke's
Bay should sit on the twenty-fourth day of September, one