Mataura district; and towards the west by the Mataura and Waikaia districts.

Clutha District.

Comprises all that area bounded towards the north by the Tapanui district; towards the east by the Clutha River (Matau branch); towards the south by the ocean; and towards the west by the Mataura district.

Lawrence District.

Comprises all that area bounded towards the north-west by Roxburgh district; towards the north-east by the ranges from Lammerlaw to Maungatua; towards the south-east by the boundary of the West Taieri and North Tokomairiro Hundreds; and towards the west by Clutha and Tapanui districts.

Tokomairiro District.

Comprises all that area bounded towards the north-west by the Lawrence district; towards the north-east by the Taieri and Waipori Rivers; towards the south-east by the ocean; and towards the south-west by the Clutha district.

Dunedin District.

Comprises all that area bounded towards the east by the watershed of the Waikouaiti River and the Silver Peak Hills to Double Hill; thence by the Waihema Creek to the ocean, and by the ocean towards the south by the ocean; and towards the south-west by the Tokomairiro and Lawrence districts.

Hawksbury District.

Comprises all that area bounded towards the north-east by the Shag River; towards the south-east by the ocean; towards the south by the Dunedin district; and towards the west by Dunedin and Mount Ida districts.

Hampden District.

Comprises all that area bounded towards the north by the Oamaru district; towards the east by the ocean; towards the south and south-west by Hawksbury district; and towards the west by Mount Ida district.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the twenty-second day of July, 1868.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to constitute for any Gold Field, or for any part thereof, Wardens’ Courts for the administration of justice therein, and to appoint Wardens of such Courts, as in the said Act mentioned.

And whereas by an Order in Council bearing date the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, His Excellency the Governor did, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, order that the several Wardens’ Courts theretofore constituted within the Provinces of Nelson and Marlborough, the County of Westland, and the Provinces of Otago and Southland, should be and the same were thereby constituted Wardens’ Courts, and did appoint certain Wardens of such Courts:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and in further exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, doth hereby appoint

VINCENT PYKE, Esq.,

to be a Warden of the Wardens’ Courts constituted or ordered and declared to be constituted by the said Order in Council of the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, with power to act alone or with assessors, and in such manner as by “The Gold Fields Act, 1868,” or any Act amending the same, is or may be provided, and to exercise all such powers as in and by the said last-mentioned Acts are or may be conferred, and which the Governor has or may have power to direct so to be exercised.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th July, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE JENOUR, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of Cromwell, as the same is defined in proclamation of 20th day of January, 1868, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 5, of 23rd January, 1868, vice Richard Francis Badger, resigned.

This appointment to take effect on and from the tenth day of August, 1868.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 21st July, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN BURN,

to be Deputy Harbor Master for the Port of Molyneux.

JOHN HALL.