Sept. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1077

SCHEDULE.
TAKITIMO SURVEY DISTRICT.

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 eighteenth day of
September, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Setting apart Land in the Otago Land District for leasing
under “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882.”

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

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in him by the second section of “The Land
Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882,” and of every other power
and authority enabling him in that behalf, 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 hereby declare that the sections of land enume-
rated in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the pro-
visions of sections three to forty-eight of “The Land Act
1877 Amendment Act, 1882.”

SCHEDULE.

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 Wel-
ington, this twenty-third day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
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 Porangahau, Castlepoint, and
Woodville Districts, and do proclaim and declare that the
territory heretofore comprised within the said districts is

hereby divided anew into five marriage districts, the names
and boundaries whereof shall be as follow:—

WAINUI DISTRICT.

All that area in the Counties of Waipawa and Wairarapa
East bounded towards the North-east by the north-eastern
boundary-line of the Tautane Block; towards the East and
South-east by the sea; towards the South-west generally by
the Akiteo River to where it first crosses the boundary-line
between the Counties of Waipawa and Wairarapa East; and
thence by the said County of Wairarapa East to the western-
most corner of the Tautane Block; and thence towards the
North-west by the north-western boundary-line of the Tautane
Block aforesaid.

PORANGAHAU DISTRICT.

All that area in the County of Waipawa bounded towards
the North-east by the Hapuka line, from the Ngahape
Stream to the sea at Blackhead; thence towards the South-
east by the sea to the northern boundary-line of the Tautane
Block; thence towards the South-west by the said Tautane
Block to its northernmost corner; thence towards the North-
west generally by a right line to the confluence of the
Mangapuaka Creek with the Wangai Stream, and by that
stream to its source; thence by a right line to the source of
the Mangapurakau Stream, by that stream and the Waiko-
piro Stream to its confluence with the Mangawaiora Creek,
and by that creek to a point due west of the source of the
Ngahape Stream; thence by a right line to the source of the
said Ngahape Stream; and thence by that stream to the
Hapuka line aforesaid.

CASTLEPOINT DISTRICT.

All that area in the County of Wairarapa East bounded
towards the North and North-east by the County of Waipawa
and the Wainui District, hereinbefore described; towards
the South-east by the sea; and towards the South-west
generally by the right banks of the Whareama and Manga-
pokia Rivers respectively, and by Sections Nos. 619, 618, and
617, Rewa Survey District, Sections Nos. 616, 289, 290, 867,
863, 873, 872, 293, 292, and 299, Mangapakeha Survey
District, and by the right bank of the Taururu River to
Education Reserve No. 151; thence by the said Education
Reserve and Sections Nos. 123 and 127, Puketoi Survey
District, to the Waitawhiti Stream; and thence by the left
bank of that stream and the left bank of the Tiraumea
River to its confluence with the Manawatu River.

DANEVIRK DISTRICT.

All that area in the County of Waipawa bounded towards
the North-west by the summit of the Ruahine Range to a
point due west (magnetic) of the intersection of the south-
western boundary-line of Section No. 2, Whakaruatapu,
Norsewood Survey District, with the Whakaruatapu Stream;
thence towards the North-east generally by a right line to
the said intersection; thence by the said Section No. 2 and
Section No. 1 to the south-eastern corner of the latter;
thence by a line due east (magnetic) to the Mangatawainui
River, by that river and the Manawatu River to the Tare-
reangarehu Stream; and thence by that stream and the
Mangapuaka Stream to the Wangai Stream; thence towards
the South-east by a right line to the northernmost corner of
the Tautane Block; thence by that block to Oporae (Trig.
Station No. 51); thence towards the South-west and West
generally by the south-western and western boundary-lines
of the Mangatoro Block; thence by the southern boundary-
line of the Kaitoki Block to the Otope Stream; thence
towards the South generally by that stream to the south-
eastern boundary-line of the Otawhao Block; thence by that
boundary-line to the Otawhao Stream; thence by that
stream to the southern boundary-line of the Otawhao Block
aforesaid; thence by that boundary-line to the Manawatu
River; thence across and by that river to the southern
boundary-line of the Oringi Wairaruhe Block; thence again
towards the West and South-west by the southern, western,
and south-western boundary-lines of that block to the south-
eastern corner of the Maharahara Block; thence by the
south-western boundary-line of that block to the summit of
the Ruahine Range aforesaid.

WOODVILLE DISTRICT.

All that area in the County of Waipawa bounded towards
the North-west by the summit of the Ruahine Range;
towards the North-east generally by the Danevirk District,
hereinbefore described; towards the South-east by the Tau-
tane Block; and towards the South-west by the County of
Wairarapa East to the Ruahine Range aforesaid.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come
into operation on the first day of October, 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-