Feb. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 337

Districts constituted under “The Marriage Act, 1880.”

(l.s.) GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in the Governor by “The Marriage Act, 1880,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing marriage district known as the Timaru District, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said district is hereby divided anew into two marriage districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follow:—

TIMARU DISTRICT.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded towards the north-west generally by the left bank of the Pareora River from its source near Mount Nimrod to the road which forms the northern boundary of Rural Section No. 33826, Pareora Survey District; thence by that road and its continuation, passing Rural Sections Nos. 33826 and 33285, intersecting Rural Section No. 21575, passing Rural Section No. 33287, intersecting Rural Section No. 33289, passing Rural Sections Nos. 28531 and 30253, and intersecting Rural Sections Nos. 36211, 33141, 21906, and along the north-western boundary of the last-mentioned section; thence by Rural Sections Nos. 36044, 34254, 20634, and 28823, by the road forming the southern boundaries of Rural Sections Nos. 23248 and 21232, by Rural Sections Nos. 21232, 18767, and 18768, by the road passing Rural Sections Nos. 18768, 18766, 15495, 15493 (Tycho Flat Road), intersecting Rural Sections Nos. 18688, 23303, passing Rural Sections Nos. 29557, 21782, 25600, intersecting Rural Sections Nos. 19553, 19552, 18559, 18558, passing Rural Sections Nos. 18689, 18557, 19511, 15878, 15879, 15876, 19166, 33002, 20737, 15906, and 15904, intersecting Rural Section No. 12875, and passing Rural Sections Nos. 12842, 16545, 13743, 14284, to the Albury Railway-line; thence by that railway-line and the north-western boundary-lines of Rural Sections Nos. 17800, 16677, 12448, 10454, and 21122 to the Opihi River: thence towards the north generally by the right bank of the Opihi River to the sea: towards the south-east by the sea: towards the south generally by the Maki-kihi River and the middle branch thereof to its source; thence by a right line to Mount Studholme: thence towards the south-west by the summit of the Hunters Hills to Mount Nimrod; and thence by a right line to the source of the Pareora River, the place of commencement.

PLEASANT POINT DISTRICT.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded towards the north generally by the Te Ngawai River from Mackenzie Pass to the road which forms the southern boundary of Section No. 31984, Block IV., Opawa Survey District; thence by the north side of that road and its continuation through the said Block IV. to Three-mile Bush Road; thence by the north side of the last-mentioned road to the Opihi River at the south-eastern boundary of Section No. 20125, Block XIII., Opihi Survey District: thence towards the north-east by the right bank of the Opihi River to the north-western boundary-line of Section No. 21122, Block IV., Pareora Survey District: thence towards the south-east generally by that section and Section No. 10454, Block IV., and Sections Nos. 12448, 16677, and 17800, Block VIII., Pareora Survey District, to the Albury Railway-line; thence by that railway-line to the road forming the south-eastern boundary of Section No. 15425, Block VIII., Pareora Survey District; thence by that road and its continuation passing Sections Nos. 12242, 13744, 12875, 13516, 15830, 15877, 17304, and 19165, Block VIII., Pareora Survey District, to the road at the south-eastern boundary of Section No. 17311; thence by the road which forms the south-eastern boundaries of Rural Sections Nos. 17311, 19165, 19454, 19427, 19222, 18561, and 23283, by the road which intersects Rural Section No. 18558, and by that road continued in a south-westerly direction through Rural Sections Nos. 18559, 19552, and 19553, and passing Rural Sections Nos. 25600, 21782, and 29557, intersecting Rural Sections Nos. 23303 and 18688, and passing Rural Sections Nos. 15493, 15495, 18766, and 18768, to the southern boundary-line of the last-mentioned section; thence by Rural Section No. 18864 to the road forming the south-western boundary of that section; thence by that road, passing Rural Sections Nos. 18873, 21787, 25588, and 20970, by Rural Sections Nos. 20970, 36045, 33346, 21909, 21908, and 21906, to the road forming the north-western boundary of the last-mentioned section; thence by that road and the road intersecting Rural Sections Nos. 21906, 33141, and 36211, passing Rural Sections Nos. 30253, 28531, intersecting Rural Section No. 33289, passing Rural Section No. 33287, intersecting Rural Section No. 21575, and passing Rural Sections Nos. 33285 and 33826, to the Pareora River; thence by that river to its source; thence by a right line to Mount Nimrod; and thence towards the south-west generally by the eastern water-parting of the Hakataramea River and Dalgety Range to Mackenzie Pass, the place of commencement.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation on the fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; 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 issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

• Lands taken for widening Perry Street, in the Borough of Masterton. *

(l.s.) GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” for a certain work, to wit, the widening of Perry Street, in the Borough of Masterton, in the County of Wairarapa North:

And whereas the Masterton Borough Council has laid before the Governor the memorial, accompanied by a map, and also the statutory declaration, required by the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are hereby taken for the purpose of widening the said street.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; 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 issued under the seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!