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At Wairau—S. L. Muller, Esq., Sub-Collector of Customs
At Lyttelton—H. S. M‘Kellar, Esq., Acting Collector of Customs
At Dunedin—C. Logie, Esq., Collector of Customs.

C. W. RICHMOND.

(From the New Zealand Gazette,
February 23, 1861.)

A PROCLAMATION,
Appointing Districts under the “Marriage
Act Amendment Act, 1858.”

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, 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 Depen-
dencies, and Vice-Admiral of
the same, &c. &c. &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly, intituled the “Marriage
Act Amendment Act, 1858,” it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor at
any time by proclamation in the New
Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony of
New Zealand, for the purposes of the said
Act, into such and so many districts as he
shall think fit, and every such district shall
be called by a Registrar’s District: Provided always
that the Governor may at any time revoke
the whole or any part of such proclama-
tion, and issue a new proclamation divid-
ing the Colony or any portion of it anew
into districts, or increasing the number or
altering the boundaries of districts, as from
time to time he may think requisite;

And whereas by a Proclamation duly
made, issued, and published, bearing date
the sixth day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine, I, the Governor,
in pursuance of the power and authority
vested in me by the said in part recited
Act, did divide the said Colony for the
purposes of the said Act into districts, the
names and boundaries whereof are respec-
tively set forth in the said Proclamation,
comprising amongst others the Dunedin
District, the Waitangi District, the Taieri
District, and the Invercargill District;

And whereas it is expedient for the pur-
poses of the said Act to divide anew that
portion of the said Colony comprised
within the four districts hereinbefore
named:

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the
said Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance
and further exercise of the power and
authority vested in me by the said in part
recited Act, do hereby revoke the said
Proclamation, so far as concerns the said
four before-mentioned districts, and I do,
by this Proclamation, divide, that portion
of the said Colony which is comprised
therein, into nine districts, the names and
boundaries whereof shall be as follows:—

Dunedin District.
Comprises all that area bounded on the
North by the Waihemo Creek and the Ocean,
on the East and South by the Ocean, and
on the West by the Kaikorai and Abbot’s Creek,
thence by the watershed of Flagstaff and
Swampy Hills to the Waihemo Creek.

Waihouaiti District.
Comprises all that area bounded on the
North by the watershed of the Horse Range,
Moeraki Downs, Kakanui, Kurau, and Hawk-
dun Mountains, extending from Shag Point
to Mount St. Bathan’s, on the East by the
Ocean, on the South by Dunedin District,
thence by the watershed of the Silver Peak
Hills to Allan Creek, thence by the Allan
Creek, Taieri River, and Sutton’s Stream,
thence by the watershed of the Lammerlaw,
thence by the Minzion Burn and Clutha River,
thence by an East and West line from Clutha
River to Mount Benger, on the West by the
watershed of the Obelisk and Cairnmuir Hills
to the Clutha River, thence by the watershed
of the Dunstan Mountains to Mount St.
Bathan’s.

Oamaru District.
Comprises all that area bounded on the
North by a direct line running from the
source of the Awarua to the source of the
Waitaki by the Waitaki River from its source,
on the East by the Ocean, on the South by
the Waikouaiti District, by the Clutha and
Kawarau Rivers, thence by the centre of the
North and west arm of the Wakatipu Lake,
thence by the watershed of the Snowy Moun-
tains to the source of the Awarua.

North Taieri District.
Comprises all that area bounded on the
North by Waikouaiti District, on the East by
Dunedin District, on the South by Half-way
Bush Road, and Silver Stream and Taieri
River, and Waipori, and on the West by the
Lammerlaw.

East Taieri District.
Comprises all that area bounded on the
North by North Taieri District, on the East
by Dunedin District, on the South by the
Ocean, and on the West by the Taieri river.

Tokomairo District.
Comprises all that area bounded on the
North by the North Taieri and East Taieri
Districts, on the East by the Ocean, on the
South and West by the Clutha River and its
northern arm called Matau.

Warepa District.
Comprises all that area bounded on the
North by the watershed of the Umbrella
Mountains, extending from Black Umbrellla
to Mount Benger, on the East by the Wai-
kouaiti and Tokomairo Districts, on the
South by the Ocean, on the West by the
Mataura River, and Wakaia and Wendon
branches, thence by the watershed to Black
Umbrella Mountain.

Invercargill District.
Comprises all that area bounded on the
North by Oamaru District, on the East by
Waikouaiti and Warepa districts, on the