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(From New Zealand Gazette July 22, 1863.)

is obvious that land is of no use to men who have not the means of living till they can raise a crop. In reporting on the subject I would request you to state what is the opening in the Colony for each class of the persons to whom I have referred; that is, for married men with families, who have been accustomed to out-door though not agricultural labor; for the same class who have been employed in in-door labor only; for single men of average health and strength who have been employed in out-door and in-door labor respectively; and for young women of good character who have been employed in the mills, but who may have had some experience of domestic service or might seem capable of undertaking it.

You will of course, however, not restrict yourself to the above points, if there are any other matters connected with the subject which appears to you important that Her Majesty’s Government should know.

I need hardly add, in conclusion, that I should be anxious to receive your answer to this dispatch at your earliest convenience.

I have &c.,

NEWCASTLE.

Governor Sir George Grey,
&c., &c., &c.

Enquiries respecting C. B. Worsley.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 6th July, 1863.

ENQUIRIES having been made by the Honorable the Chief Secretary of Victoria respecting a gentleman named Charles Bethell Worsley, any person who can give any information respecting him is requested to communicate with this office.

By command,

W. GISBORNE,
Under Secretary.

Resignation of John Gillies, Esq., of his office of Sheriff.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 6th July, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by JOHN GILLIES, Esq., of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, of his appointment as Sheriff of Otago.

ALFRED DOMETT.

R. H. Forman, Esq., appointed Sheriff of Otago.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 6th July, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint ROBERT HENRY FORMAN, Esq., to be Sheriff of Otago.

ALFRED DOMETT.

A PROCLAMATION

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

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight Commander 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 “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 may think fit, and that every such District shall be called by a distinct name, and shall be a Registrar’s District; and it is provided that the Governor may at any time revoke the whole or any part of such Proclamation, and issue a new Proclamation dividing the Colony or any part of it, into Districts, or increasing the number or altering the boundaries of Districts as from time to time he may think requisite.

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, Governor of the said Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said recited Act, do hereby revoke every Proclamation at any time heretofore issued appointing or dividing Registrar’s Districts under the said Act, so far as such Proclamations relate to Districts within the Provinces of Otago and Southland respectively; and do hereby proclaim and declare that the said Provinces shall be and are hereby divided for the purposes of the said Act into eleven districts in the Province of Otago and three districts in the Province of Southland, the names and boundaries whereof respectively shall be as follows:—

PROVINCE OF OTAGO.

Dunedin District,

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by the Waihemo Creek, Blueskin Bay, and the Ocean; on the East and South by the ocean; and on the West by Kaikorai and Abbot’s Creeks; thence by the watershed of the Kaikorai, Flagstaff, and Swamp Hill Ranges, to the source of the Waihemo Creek.

Waikouaiti District,

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by the Oamaru District; on the East by the ocean; on the South by Dunedin District, thence by the watershed of the Silverpeak Hills to the source of Allen Creek, thence by the Allen Creek,