Numb. 51.

969

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1888.

Altering Boundaries of Resident Magistrate's District of Waikato.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the colony, or in any part thereof, districts to be called Resident Magistrates' districts, and such districts from time to time to abolish, and the boundaries to define and alter, and in any such Proclamation to fix a time on and from which any such district shall be constituted or abolished, as the case may be:

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so vested in him, did alter and redefine the boundaries of the Resident Magistrate's District of Waikato, as described in the said Proclamation:

And whereas it is expedient to further alter the boundaries of the said District of Waikato 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 powers and authorities so vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby alter the boundaries of the said District of Waikato, and define them, as described in the Schedule hereto, as and from the seventeenth day of September instant.

SCHEDULE.

WAIKATO.

All that area in the Provincial District of Auckland, bounded towards the north-west, west, and north, from the mouth of the Awaroa Stream, by the northern shore of the Whangape Lake; thence by the Whangape Stream; thence by the right bank of the Waikato River to the Whanga-maringo River; thence by that river to its most northerly source in the Pataroa Range; thence towards the north-east and north-west by the Hauraki Resident Magistrate's District, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 114, 1st November, 1883, to the County of Tauranga; thence again towards the north-east and south-east by the Counties of Tauranga and Rotorua respectively to the westernmost corner of the latter county at Uira Gorge; thence towards the south by a right line to Rangitoto Mountain; thence by a right line to the confluence of the Mangaparo with the Mokau River; thence towards the south-west by a right line bearing north 22° 30' west to the summit of the watershed between the Waipa River and the West Coast; thence
towards the west by that summit to Pirongia Mountain, and by part of the western boundary of the Military Settlements Block to the north-western angle of that block; thence by a right line to the summit of the watershed between the Waikato River and the West Coast at a point due east of Waikarea; thence by that summit to a point due west of the mouth of the Awaroa Stream in Whangape Lake; and again towards the north by a right line to the said mouth, the place of commencement.

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

Thos. FERGUS.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Declaring certain Lands to be the Mikonui Water-race and certain Streams to be taken for the Purpose of Supplying the said Water-race.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Public Works Act, 1882," it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation publicly notified and gazetted, declare any land therein specified, whether within or without or partly within and partly without a mining district, to be a water-race, and may declare any stream therein specified to be taken for the purpose of supplying a water-race: And whereas it is further enacted that the Minister shall cause a map of such water-race to be deposited in the Warden's Court of the district in which such land is, and such map shall be referred to in and shall form part of any such Proclamation: And whereas for the purpose of supplying with water a portion of the mining district known as the Westland Mining District, there has been partly constructed within such mining district a water-race called the Mikonui Water-race:

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 hereinbefore-recited Act, and of any other power