Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Setting apart Land in the Otago Land District for Perpetual Leasing under "The Land Act, 1885."

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

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the one hundred and thirty-fifth section of "The Land Act, 1885," 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 enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be set apart for lease, with right of renewal, under the provisions of Part IV. of "The Land Act, 1885."

SCHEDULE.

ROCK AND PILLAR 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 twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

Jos. A. TOLE,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Trustees of Dunstan Racecourse Reserve, County of Vincent, appointed.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago intituled "The Dunstan Racecourse Reserve Management Act, 1872," James Hazlett, William Fraser, George Fache, Thomas Luther Shepherd, Martin Marshall, and William Anderson Low were constituted a corporate body for the purposes of the said Act: And whereas the said Thomas Luther Shepherd is dead, the said William Anderson Low has been absent from the Provincial District of Otago for more than twelve consecutive calendar months, and the said James Hazlett and Martin Marshall have resigned their office of Trustee:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the aforesaid ordinance, and by "The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," do hereby proclaim and declare that Benjamin Naylor, Frederick Thomas Duke Jeffrey, Leslie Duncan MacGeorge, and Charles Holden, all of Clyde, in the County of Vincent, are hereby permanently appointed Trustees under the said "Dunstan Racecourse Reserve Management Ordinance, 1872," in the room of the aforesaid James Hazlett, Thomas Luther Shepherd, Martin Marshall, and William Anderson Low.

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-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Sheep Districts of Marlborough and Amuri amended.—
Notice No. 212.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is expedient that the Marlborough Sheep District and the Amuri Sheep District as at present constituted should be altered and reconstituted:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the eighth section of "The Sheep Act, 1878," do hereby constitute anew the Marlborough and Amuri Sheep Districts, and the subdivisions thereof respectively; and I do hereby declare that, for the purposes of the said Act, the said districts and the subdivisions of the Marlborough Sheep District shall hereafter be as the same are described in the Schedule hereto, including in such districts or subdivisions all boroughs within the territorial area comprised within the external boundaries of any such district or subdivision as defined in the said Schedule, although such boroughs do not actually form part of any county therein mentioned, and that such districts and subdivisions shall be known by the names set over each such district and subdivision respectively in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH SHEEP DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Provincial Districts of Marlborough and Nelson bounded generally towards the West, North-east, and East by the ocean from the head of Croiselles Harbour to the mouth of the Conway River; thence towards the South-west generally by that river to its source; thence towards the South by a straight line in the direction of the confluence of the Acheron and the Dillon Rivers as far as the western boundary-line of Run No. 1, Terako Survey District; thence again towards the East by the said Run No. 1; again towards the South by Run No. 84, Square 81, Percival Survey District; again towards the East generally by the said Run No. 84 and Runs Nos. 97 and 59 of Square 81 to the Hanmer River; thence again towards the South by that river and the Waiau River to the confluence of the Boyle River with the said Waiau River; thence towards the West by the last-mentioned river to its confluence with the River Henry; thence again towards the South-west and towards the North-west generally by the southern, western, and north-western boundaries of Section No. 16, Square 183, Dillon Survey District, the western boundary-line of Section No. 14, Square 183, Maling Survey District, the south-western boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 15 and 9, Square 183, and the western boundary-line of the last-mentioned section; again towards the North-east by the north-eastern boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 9 and 15 aforesaid; thence again towards the North-west generally by the north-western and northern boundary-lines of Section No. 12, the northern and north-eastern boundary-lines of Section No. 11, and the north-eastern boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 10A and 10, Square 103, Maling Survey District; thence by lines so as to include Runs Nos. 99 and 106 to Lake Tennyson; thence by that lake, the northern boundary-line of Run No. 1, Square 72, Alma Survey District, and the north-western and north-eastern boundary-lines of Section No. 1, Square 71, to Serpentine Creek; thence by the right bank of that creek to its source; thence by a straight line to the source of the Wairau River; thence by the left bank of the said Wairau River to a reserve of 13,000 acres in the Wairau Survey District; thence by the western, north-western, north-eastern, and eastern boundary-lines of that reserve to Run No. 3, Square 70, Wairau Survey District aforesaid; and thence by the north-western boundary-lines of Runs Nos. 3 aforesaid and 4 to the boundary between the Provincial Districts of Nelson and Marlborough; thence again towards the South-west by the Provincial District of Nelson to the Wairau River; thence again towards the South-east by the said Wairau River to the south-western boundary-line of Section No. 6, Wiesenhaven Run; thence again towards the South-west and North-west by the south-western and north-western boundary-lines of the said Section No. 6, the north-western boundary-line of Section No. 3, the south-western and north-western boundary-lines of Section No. 4, and the north-western boundary-line of Section No. 7, all of Wiesenhaven Run aforesaid, to Ward's Pass; thence by the summit of the watershed between the Wairau River and Tasman Bay to the source of the Pelorus River; thence by that river to its confluence with the Heringa River; thence by that river to its source; thence by a right line to Saddle Hill; thence by the summit of the watershed between the Pelorus and Tasman Bay to Mount McLaren; and thence by a right line to the head of Croiselles Harbour: including D'Urville Island, Arapawa Island, and Forsyth and Chetwode Islands, and all