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and subscribed by the persons elected as Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors respectively, for the Incorporated Town of St. Kilda, at the first elections for the said Town under the said Ordinance:

Now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby, in pursuance of the power in this behalf vested in me by the said Ordinance, appoint

MR PETER PAXTON, of St. Kilda,

as and to be the person before whom the persons elected as Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors respectively, at the first elections under the said Ordinance for the said Incorporated town of St. Kilda, shall make and subscribe the declaration specified in the said twenty-eighth section of the said Ordinance.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago aforesaid, at Dunedin, this seventeenth day of December, 1875.

(L.S.) J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

[Reprinted from Provincial Gazette of 24th November last, with slight alterations.]

PROCLAMATION

Of the Municipality of Winton.

By His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled "An Ordinance to Amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Otago, with the advice of his Executive Council, on the petition of not less than fifty persons, comprising a majority of the householders resident in any township, to extend the provisions of the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," to such township, by such name or incorporation as he shall deem fit, and notwithstanding that such township, is included in a Road District, 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 shall 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, shall define the boundaries of the Municipality so created, and declare the number of Wards into which such Municipality may be divided, and define the boundaries of such Wards respectively, and declare which of the provisions of the said Ordinance shall be applicable to and within the limits of such Municipality: And whereas a petition of not less than fifty persons comprising a majority of the householders resident in the township of Winton in the said Province of Otago, has been presented to me, James Macandrew, as Superintendent of the said Province, praying that the provisions of the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865" may be extended to the said townships; now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice of my Executive Council, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authority 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 1865," specified in the first Schedule hereto, shall extend to the said township of Winton and under the name of the Corporation of the town of Winton, 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 ex-

tend 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, containing 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 two wards, to be known respectively as North Ward and South Ward, and that the boundaries of the said wards shall be those respectively defined in the fourth schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

The sections of the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865," of containing the provisions of the said Ordinance extended to and applicable within the Incorporated Town of Winton, that is to say, sections numbered 6 to 11 both inclusive; sections numbered 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26; sections numbered 29 to 77 both inclusive; sections 79 to 97 both inclusive; sections numbered 99 to 113 both inclusive: and sections numbered 116 to 122 respectively.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Sections of the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," applicable to the Incorporated Town of Winton, with respective modifications set opposite the numbers of the sections.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Boundaries of the Incorporated Town of Winton, as delineated on the record maps of the said town, deposited in the Survey Office, Invercargill, in the said Province.

All that piece or parcel of land in the Province of Otago, comprising one hundred and forty-eight (148) acres, known as the township of Winton, bounded on the north by sections 37 and 38, block I, East Winton, 234 links, and public road 150 8-10ths links; on the west, by a continuation due south of the west boundary of section 37, block I, East Winton, to the north boundary of section 1, block VI, East Winton, 6,100 links; on the south by sections 1, 2, 3, and 6, block VI, 2943 links, and public road 163 9-10ths links; towards the east, by section 2 and 1, block V, distances of 108 links and 229 links; towards the south-east, by section 1 aforesaid, 244 links; towards the south-east, by public road 100 links; towards the north-east boundary of sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, block V, Town of Winton, 1636 links, and 150 links; again on the south-east, by section 17 of said block V, 134 links; south-east, by towards the north-east and south-east, by lines being the boundary of a public road at bearings and distances respectively of 340 deg. 32 min., 478 links; 326 deg. 42 min., 784 links; 12 deg. 22 min., 497 links