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by that section and a right line across the River Eyre to the
north-western corner of Section No. 13682, by that section
and Sections Nos. 13681, 15260, and a right line to the
northern corner of Section No. 34754, by that section, across
a road, and by Sections Nos. 30310, 33342, and 33451, and
the north-western boundary-line of the last-mentioned
section produced to the road which runs by Trig. Station 48,
Mairaki Survey District aforesaid; thence by that road to
said Trig. Station 48; thence by a right line to the north-
eastern corner of Section No. 32083, Oxford Survey District;
thence by the road forming the south-eastern boundary of
that section, and the north-western side of that road pro-
duced across the Waimakariri River to its right bank;
towards the south-west and west by the right bank of that
river to a point in line with the northern boundary-line of
old Run 270, Class 3; thence towards the north by a right
line to and by that boundary-line to the summit of the
Puketiraki Range; and thence towards the north-west
generally by that range to Ashley Head, the place of com-
mencement.

RANGIORA REGISTRATION DISTRICT.

Bounded towards the north-east generally by a right line
from Mount Grey to the westernmost corner of Section No.
9015, Block XV., Grey Survey District; thence by the road
dividing Sections Nos. 9015 and 7944 and that road continued
to the Rangiora and Litchfield Road; thence by that road to
the road dividing Sections Nos. 3348 and 3577, by that road
to the main trunk railway-line, and by the railway-line to the
road north-east of Section No. 2137, and by said road forming
the western boundary of Section No. 1976 to the River
Ashley; thence by the left bank of that river to the North
Road; towards the east by that road to Te Pouapatuki
Road; thence generally towards the south by Te Pouapatuki
Road to the Drain Reserve; thence by a right line to the
most easterly corner of Section No. 94; thence by the
southern boundary-lines of that section to a road south-west
of that section, by said road, and by a road north and north-
west of Section No. 135 to the Cam River, by the Cam River
to Young's Road, by that road to Boy's direct Rangiora
Road, by that road to a road north-west of Section No. 1121,
by that road to the Ashley and Kaiapoi Road, by that road
to the road east of Section No. 2460, by that road to the road
north of Section No. 6610, by that road to a drain reserve, by
that reserve to a road north of Section No. 6592, by that
road to the Oxford and Kaiapoi Road, by that road to a road
south-east of Sections Nos. 7117 and 2953, by that road to a
road north of Section No. 3981, by that road to the Cust
Road, by that road to the Oxford and Ohoka Road, and by
the Oxford and Ohoka Road to a point on its northern side
due north of Trig. Station C 30, Rolleston Survey District,
on the right bank of the Waimakariri River; towards the
west by a due-north line to the River Ashley; again towards
the south and west generally by the right bank of that river
to its source near Block Hill, and thence by a right line to
Block Hill; thence generally towards the north by a right
line to the source of the south branch of the Waipara River,
and by that river to the western boundary of Section No.
29653, Waipara Survey District; thence again towards the
north-east by a right line to and by the summit of the range
east of Bird's-eye Creek, and by the summit of the range to
Mount Grey.

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

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of
Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley,
of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron
Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and
of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron
Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council;
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Go-
vernor 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
eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
T. W. HISLOP.

Districts constituted under "The Registration of Births
and Deaths Act, 1875."

(L.S.)
ONSLOW, 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 Hillier, Earl of Onslow,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
abolish the existing registration districts known as the East
Oxford, West Oxford, and Rangiora Districts; and do pro-
claim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised
within the said districts is hereby divided anew into two
registration districts, the names whereof shall be the Oxford
and Rangiora Districts, and the boundaries whereof shall
be coterminous with the boundaries 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 twentieth day of May, in the year o
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.

(L.S.)
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of
Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley,
of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron
Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and
of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron
Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council;
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Go-
vernor 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
eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.
T. W. HISLOP.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Addington Prison ceased to be a Prison.

ONSLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New
Zealand, intituled "The Prisons Act, 1882," it is
enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation published
in the New Zealand Gazette, declare that any prison shall no
longer be a prison; and upon the gazetting of such Pro-
clamation, or from and after any later date fixed in such
Proclamation for the purpose, such prison shall cease to be a
prison:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of
the above-recited power and authority, do hereby declare
that, from and after the gazetting of this Proclamation, the
prison at Addington, in the Provincial District of Canter-
bury, shall cease to be a prison.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of
Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley,
of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron Onslow,
of Onslow in the County of Salop, and of West
Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron Cran-
ley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council;
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George;
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
fourteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.
THOS. FERGUS.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Inland Patea Native Licensing District constituted.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourteenth
day of May, 1889.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the seventeenth section of "The Licensing
Act, 1881," it is enacted that the Governor, by Order
in Council, may from time to time constitute, vary, and
abolish Native licensing districts: And whereas it is ex-
pedient to constitute the Native Licensing District of
Inland Patea:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pur-
suance and exercise of all powers enabling him in this