Also, all that area in the Province of Otago Colony of New Zealand containing by admeasurement sixteen (16) acres and fifteen (15) poles more or less situate in the Tuapeka East District being sections numbered 70 78 and 79 block II on the map of the said District bounded towards the north by part of section numbered 71 six hundred and fifty-seven (657) links towards the north-east by a road line one thousand six hundred (1600) links towards the south-east and south-west by a road line one thousand seven hundred (1700) links towards the west by section numbered 77 one thousand one hundred and forty-seven (1147) links.

Also, all that area in the Province of Otago Colony of New Zealand containing by admeasurement one (1) acre three (3) roods and twenty-six (26) poles more or less situate in the Tuapeka East District being section numbered 194 block II on the map of the said District bounded towards the north by section numbered 22 one thousand three hundred and fifty-eight (1358) links towards the north-east by a road line one hundred and fifty-six (156) links towards the south by section numbered 28 and part of section numbered 29 one thousand four hundred and twenty-four (1424) links towards the west by part of section numbered 69 one hundred and thirty-eight (138) links.

Also, all that area in the Province of Otago Colony of New Zealand containing by admeasurement two (2) acres three (3) roods and thirty-one (31) poles more or less situate in the Tuapeka East District being section numbered 200 block II on the map of the said District bounded towards the north by section numbered 169 one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four (1824) links towards the east by part of section numbered 170 one hundred and sixty (160) links towards the south by section numbered 160 one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight (1858) links towards the north-west by a road line one hundred and sixty-three (163) links.

Note.—A water-race runs through this section.

Also, all that area in the Province of Otago Colony of New Zealand containing by admeasurement five (5) acres three (3) roods and six (6) poles more or less situate in the Tuapeka East District being section numbered 191 block II on the map of the said District bounded towards the north-east by a road line two hundred and seventy (270) links towards the south-east by section numbered 152 two thousand one hundred and eighty (2180) links towards the south-west by part of section numbered 128 two hundred and sixty-five (265) links towards the north-west by section numbered 151 two thousand two hundred and twenty (2220) links.

Also, all that area in the Province of Otago Colony of New Zealand containing by admeasurement three (3) acres three (3) roods and thirty-seven (37) poles more or less situate in the Tuapeka East District being section numbered 202 block II on the map of the said District bounded towards the north-east by a road line one hundred and forty-four (144) links towards the south-east by section numbered 29 block V said district two thousand one hundred and forty-eight (2143) links towards the south-west by part of section numbered 187 one hundred and forty-five (145) links towards the north-west by section numbered 184 two thousand one hundred and forty-five (2145) links.

Also, all that area in the Province of Otago Colony of New Zealand containing by admeasurement two (2) acres and twenty-two (22) poles more or less situate in the Tuapeka East District being section numbered 53 block III on the map of the said District bounded towards the north by section numbered 43 one thousand two hundred (1200) links towards the north-east by part of section numbered 41 two hundred and eight (208) links towards the south by section numbered 42 one thousand two hundred (1200) links towards the west by a road line two hundred and eight (208) links.

Alex. Willis,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

PROCLAMATION.

Of the Municipality of Balclutha.

By His Honor W. A. Tolmie, Esquire, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, made and passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, “An Ordinance to amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” it is amongst other things enacted that it should be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice of his Executive Council, and he was thereby authorised and required, on the petition of not less than fifty persons, comprising a majority of the householders resident in any Township within the Province, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, to extend the provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” to such Township, by such name or incorporation as he should deem fit, with such modification as to the names and numbers of the members of such proposed Corporation, and the Office-bearers thereof, and any other municipal matters and regulations as should seem to such Superintendent and his Executive Council suitable for the area and population of such Municipality; and in accordance with such Petition, or otherwise, should define the boundaries of the Municipality so created, and declare the number of Wards into which such Municipality might be divided, and define the boundaries of such Wards respectively, and declare which of the provisions of the said Ordinance should be applicable to and within the limits of such Municipality: And whereas a Petition of persons, comprising a majority of the Householders resident in the Township of Balclutha, in the said Province of Otago, has been presented to me, W. A. Tolmie, as Deputy-Superintendent of the said Province, praying that the provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1864,” may be extended to the said Township: Now therefore, I, W. A. Tolmie, Deputy-Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice of my Executive Council, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare, that from and after the day of the date hereof, the provisions of the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” specified in the first Schedule hereto, shall extend to the said Township of Balclutha by and under the name of the Corporation of the Town of Balclutha, and shall be applicable to and within the Municipality hereby created. And I do, with the like advice of my said Executive Council, proclaim and declare that such of the said provisions as are contained in the sections of the said last mentioned Ordinance, specified in the first column of the second Schedule hereto, shall extend to the said Township, and be applicable to the Municipality hereby created, with and subject to the respective modifications contained herein, and in the second column of the said second Schedule hereto. And I hereby, with the advice of my said Executive Council, proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the Municipality hereby created shall be those specified in the third Schedule hereto. And I do hereby, with the advice of my said Executive Council, declare that the said Municipality hereby created shall be divided into three Wards, to be known respectively as East Ward, North Ward, and South Ward, and that the boundaries of the said Wards shall be those respectively defined in the fourth Schedule hereto.