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Given under the hand of 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 issued under the Seal of
the said Colony, at Wellington, this seventh
day of December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. Stafford.

God Save the Queen!

that creek to Double Hill, thence by the summit of the
watershed of the South branch of the Waikouaiti River
to Silver Peak, thence towards the West, and again
towards the South by the boundary of the Otago Gold
Fields District hereinafter defined, to the point where
it meets the line first above mentioned; thence by that
line to the commencing point.

Dunedin.

This district is bounded towards the North by part of
the southern boundary of the Oamaru District
hereinbefore defined, that is to say—from the Silver
Peak to the mouth of the Waihema Creek in Blueskin Bay,
towards the north-east and south-east by the sea from the
mouth of the Waihema to the mouth of the Taieri
River, towards the south-west by that river from its
mouth to the Waipori Lake, and by the Waipori
Lake and River to the boundary of the Otago
Gold Fields District, hereinafter defined, and
toward the north-west by part of the south-eastern
boundary of the Otago Gold Fields District, that is to
say—from its intersection by the Waipori River to
Silver Peak. Including the adjacent islands.

Clutha.

This district is bounded towards the north-east by
the south-western boundary of the Dunedin District
hereinbefore defined, towards the south-east and South by
the sea from the mouth of the Taieri River to the mouth of
the Mataura River, towards the West by the Mataura
River from its mouth to the southern boundary of the
Otago Gold Fields District hereinafter defined, and
towards the North by the Otago Gold Fields District.

Te Anau.

This district is bounded towards the north by the
southern boundary of the Province of Canterbury from
the mouth of the Awarua River to the western boundary of
the Oamaru District hereinafter defined; thence by part
of the western boundaries of the Oamaru and Otago
Gold Fields Districts hereinafter defined, and the
northern and western boundaries of the Province of
Southland to the sea at the mouth of the Waiau River;
and on the south and west by the sea from the mouth
of that river to the mouth of the Awarua River,
including the adjacent islands.

Given under the hand of 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, at the Government House, at
Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, this twenty-ninth day of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.

E. W. Stafford.

God Save the Queen!

G. Grey, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Intestate Estates Act, 1865,”
it is enacted that the said Act shall come into
force in each Province of the Colony respectively, on
such day as the Governor may fix by proclamation in
the New Zealand Gazette: Now, therefore, I, Sir
George Grey, the Governor, as aforesaid, in pursuance
and exercise of the said power and authority in me
vested, do hereby appoint and fix the first day of
January next to be the day on and from which the said
“Intestate Estates Act, 1865,” shall come into force
within each of the following Provinces, viz.:

The Province of Taranaki,
The Province of Otago, and
The Province of Southland,
in the said Colony.

Given under the hand of 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 issued under the Seal of
the said Colony, at Wellington, this seventh
day of December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. Stafford.

God Save the Queen!

G. Grey, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Intestate Estates Act Amendment
Act, 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, by proclamation published in
the New Zealand Gazette, from time to time to divide
the Colony for the purposes of “The Intestate Estates
Act, 1865,” and the said “Intestate Estates Act
Amendment Act, 1866,” into such and so many districts
as he shall think fit, and every such district shall
be called by a distinct name and shall be a Curator’s
district; and in like manner from time to time, and as
he shall think fit, to abolish any such district, or alter
or vary the boundaries of any district, or increase the
number of such districts:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise
of the said power and authority in me vested, do hereby
proclaim and appoint the districts comprised within the
boundaries of the Provinces of Taranaki, Otago, and
Southland respectively, to be Curators’ districts for the
purposes of the above-mentioned Acts, and to be respectively called

The Taranaki District,
The Otago District, and
The Southland District.

Given under the hand of 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, at the Government House, at
Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, this seventh day of December,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. Stafford.

God Save the Queen!

Colonial Secretary’s Offices,
(Judicial Branch)
Wellington, 19th December, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be
Resident Magistrates, under “The Resident Magistrates’
Act, 1867,” for the districts set opposite their names,
as the same are defined in the proclamation dated the
29th day of November last;—

Alfred Rowland Chetham Strode, Esq., Dunedin
District.
James Fulton, Esq., Dunedin District.
Thomas Windele Parker, Esq., Oamaru District.
Wilson Gray, Esq., Oamaru District.
John Wallace Murdoch, Esq., Oamaru District.
James Pillans Maitland, Esq., Clutha District.
William Gray, Esq., Clutha District.
Edward Croker, Esq., Otago Gold Fields District.
John Nugent Wood, Esq., Otago Gold Fields
District.
William Lawrence Simpson, Esq., Otago Gold
Fields District.
Henry Wigram Robinson, Esq., Otago Gold
Fields District.