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455

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1888.

Land taken for a Further Portion of the North Island Main Trunk Railway, from a Point at or near Marton to Te Awamutu, via Murimotu, Taumaranui, and the Ongaruhe River Valley: Waiteti Section.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a further portion of the North Island Main Trunk Railway, from a point at or near Marton to Te Awamutu, via Murimotu, Taumaranui, and the Ongaruhe River Valley, namely, for Waiteti Section.

And whereas all conditions precedent required by law to be observed and performed prior to the taking of such land in the manner hereby provided have been observed and performed:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by section one hundred and thirty of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is taken for the further portion of the said line of railway hereinbefore specified.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Auckland; as the said parcels of land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 15579, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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 second day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Boundaries of Nelson District Court District altered.

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
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 constitute throughout the colony, or in any part thereof, districts within which District Courts shall be respectively held, and such districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to define or alter:

And whereas, by a Proclamation bearing date the sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, 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 Nelson District Court:”

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, the boundaries of the said district so defined were altered:

And whereas it is expedient to further alter the boundaries of the said district so defined as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the twenty-third day of April instant, the boundaries of the district within which the Nelson District Court shall be held shall be altered, and that thenceforth the boundaries thereof shall be the boundaries hereinafter described.

NELSON DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT.

All that area bounded towards the north generally by the sea to the head of Croiselles Harbour, thence by a right line to Elaine Bay, Tennyson Inlet, and thence by the sea to the Kaituna River; towards the south-east generally by that river and its western branch to its source near Mount Riley; thence by a right line to Mount Riley; thence by the summit of the dividing range between the Pelorus and Wairau Valleys, and by the Counties of Marlborough and Amuri to Mount Humboldt; thence towards the south-west and