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time of the passing of the said Act should, until duly altered, be deemed to be Districts proclaimed under the said Act.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the said Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said in part recited Act, do hereby revoke every Proclamation at any time heretofore issued, appointing and declaring Registrars’ Districts for the purposes of the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. And I do by this Proclamation divide the said Colony, for the purposes of the said Act, into Districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follows:

Dunedin District.

Comprising Dunedin Hundred including the Townships of Dunedin and Port Chalmers. Bounded on the North by Blueskin Bay, and the Ocean; on the East by the Ocean; on the South by the Kaikorai Stream and Abbot’s Creek, thence to Flagstaff Hill, thence to Swamp Hill, thence to Double Hill, thence to the West end of Blueskin Bay.

Waitangi District.

Bounded on the North by the Ahuriri and Waitangi Rivers; on the East by the Ocean; on the South by Dunedin District as far as Double Hill, thence by a line due West to the Taieri River, including Runs twenty and thirty-nine, thence by the Taieri River to a point where it would be met by a line running due East from the Rock and Pillar Mountain, thence by such line to the Rock and Pillar Mountain, thence in a right line to the junction of the Manuherekia River with the river Clutha, thence by the rivers Clutha and Kawarau to Wakatipu Lake, and on the West by the Eyre Mountains, thence to Wanaka Lake, thence by the Wanaka and Hawea Rivers to Hawea Lake, thence by Hawea Lake and its East Head to a point where it would be cut by a line running due East and West over Hawea Mountain, thence by such line to the West head or branch of the River Ahuriri.

Taieri District.

Bounded on the North and North East by the Waitangi District, on the East and South East by the Dunedin District and the Ocean, on the South by the Ocean as far as a point called Cheeseiand’s Mistake, thence by the watershed to the Umbrella Mountains and the Double Cone to the Wakatipu Lake.

Invercargill District.

Bounded on the North by the Rivers Awarua and Makarora to Wanaka Lake, on the East by the Waitangi and Taieri Districts, on the South by the Ocean, and on the West by the Ocean.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation and take effect on the first day of October next.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony, at Government House, at Auckland, this sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

Thomas Gore Browne.

By His Excellency’s command,

Henry John Tancred.

God Save The Queen!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 6th July 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be, on and from the 1st day of October next, Registrars under “The Marriage Act, 1854,” and “The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1858,” for the Districts set opposite their respective names, as those Districts are severally described in a Proclamation bearing date the 6th July 1859.

• Dunedin—John Gillies
• Waitangi—Rev. John Albert Fenton
• Taieri—John Hislop
• Invercargill—John Blacklock
• Stewart’s Island—Rev. John Henry Frederick Wohlers
• Chatham Islands—Archibald Watson Shand

Until the first of October next, the arrangements at present existing with respect to the divisions of Districts and the appointments of Registrars are to continue in force.

Henry John Tancred.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 6th July 1859.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be, on and from the first day of October next, Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, under “The Registration Act 1858,” for the Districts set opposite their respective names, as those Districts are severally described in a Proclamation, under the said Act, bearing date the 6th July 1859.

• Dunedin—John Gillies
• Waitangi—Rev. John Albert Fenton
• Taieri—John Hislop
• Invercargill—John Blacklock