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tendent of the Province of Otago, in the said
Colony, the several powers vested in me by
the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and
tenth sections of the said Act, subject to
rescinded as in the said Act, provided, and
subject to the regulations of even date here-
with, and to any other regulations to be from
time to time duly made.

Given under my hand, at the Go-
vernment House at Auckland,
this sixth day of September,
in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one.

T. GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command,

WILLIAM FOX.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, August 16.)

A PROCLAMATION

Constituting Hundreds in the Province of
Otago.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the
Most Honorable 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, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the "Defi-
nition of Districts Act, 1858," that
it shall be lawful for the Governor from time
to time, by Proclamation in the NEW ZEALAND
GAZETTE, to divide the Colony into Counties,
Hundreds, and Parishes, or such other divi-
sions as he may deem expedient which shall
have such limits, and shall have and be known
by such names or designations as in and by
the Proclamation constituting the same shall
be prescribed, and also in like manner from
time to time to alter and annul any such divi-
sion or the name or designation thereof: And
whereas by a Proclamation made by the
Governor and issued under the Public Seal
of the Colony, on the thirtieth day of Novem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and sixty,
the several Hundreds there particularly
mentioned and described were constituted in
the Province of Otago, and it is expedient to
alter the boundaries of such Hundreds and to
establish additional Hundreds in the said
Province:

Now, therefore, I, THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
the Governor as aforesaid, in pursuance and
in exercise of the before recited authority, do
hereby annul the several divisions set forth
in the said Proclamation and do hereby pro-
claim and declare that there shall be within
the Province of Otago the several Hundreds
bounded by the limits and known by the
names or designations hereunder written, that
is to say:—

WAIKOUAITI HUNDRED,
Forty Square Miles,

Comprises all that area bounded on the North
by the Waikouaiti River; on the East by the
ocean; on the South by Dunedin Hundred;
and on East and West line (true bearing)
drawn from Double Hill to the South arm of
the Waikouaiti River; and on the West by the
Waikouaiti River.

NEW HAWKSBURY HUNDRED,
Fifty-eight Square Miles,

Comprises all that area bounded on the North
by Shag River; on the East and South by
the ocean and Hawksbury Hundred; and on
the West by the North arm of the Waikou-
aiti River and a straight line drawn from
the elbow to that Creek junction on the Shag
River near Trigonometrical Station Q.

NEW MOERAKI HUNDRED,
Seventy-three Square Miles,

Comprises all that area bounded on the North
by the Waianakarua and its Southern arm;
on the East by the ocean and Moeraki Hun-
dred; on the South by New Hawksbury
Hundred; and on the West by the Shag
River and a straight line drawn from that
Creek junction (half a mile above Captain
Fraser's Station) over Trigonometrical Station
M to the South arm of the Waianakarua.

OTEPOPO HUNDRED,
Eighty-four Square Miles,

Comprises all that area bounded on the North
by the Kauroo and Kakaunui Rivers; on the
East by the ocean; on the South by the New
Moeraki Hundred and an arm of the South
Waianakarua River; and on the West by a
North and South line (true bearing) in line
with the Kauroo Hill drawn from that arm
to the Kauroo River.

NEW OAMARU HUNDRED,
Ninety-eight Square Miles,

Comprises all that area bounded on the North
by the Waitaki River; on the East by the
ocean and Oamaru Hundred; on the South
by Otepopo Hundred; and on the West by a
straight line drawn from the junction of the
Kauroo River to the Waireka and Big Hill
Creek junction, thence by the Big Hill Creek
to Big Hill thence by a North North East
and by East line (true bearing) to the Wai-
taki River.

Given under my hand at the Go-
vernment House at Auckland,
and issued under the Seal of
the Colony of New Zealand,
this 16th day of August, in the
year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
T. GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Warrant appointing Coroner's District.

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
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same, &c. &c. &c.

WHEREAS by the "Coroners Act, 1858,"
the Governor is empowered in fit per-
manner therein mentioned to appoint fit per-
sons to be Coroners of the several districts of
the Colony of New Zealand, and from time to
time to define the districts within which such
Coroners shall respectively have jurisdiction,
and every such definition to revoke or amend,
and the limits of such districts to alter as
occasion may require;