PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas
Gore Browne, Companion of
the Most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, &c.,
&c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand intituled
"The Waste Lands Act, 1856," it is
enacted that no land acquired from the
Aboriginal Inhabitants after the passing
thereof shall be open for sale or disposal
until the Governor shall have notified by
Proclamation in the New Zealand Government Gazette that the Native Title
has been extinguished over such land.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor, Do
hereby Proclaim and Notify that the
Native title has been extinguished over
the two several blocks of Land the
boundaries whereof are mentioned or
described in the Schedule hereunto
annexed.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Auckland, this sixteenth day
of January, in the year of Our
Lord, One thousand eight hundred and fifty seven.

Thomas Gore Browne,
Governor.

By His Excellency’s command,
E. W. Stafford.

God save the Queen.

SCHEDULE.

No. 1.
BOUNDARIES OF THE MARAEKAKAHO BLOCK:

Estimated to contain 30,000 Acres.

Commencing at the mouth of the Maraekakaho River and running up stream
on the boundary of the land sold last
year (the Aorangi block) to Makaramu,
te Aroha, te Waikoukou, whence it runs
on shore on the old boundary to Keka-
keka, te Paia, Rakanwharou Parikara-
geranga, there it falls into the Manga-
onuku and runs down stream to te
Waibora, thence it follows the bounda-
ries of the land first sold (Te Hapuku’s
block, boundaries of December, 1851)
as far as to Ahitara o te Houkura, and
still follows the said old boundary to te
Ruakaka, turns there and runs to te
Ahipakura, thence to Pou awhakaranga,
thence to Waitangitanga, thence
to te Wake, thence to te Kaikaha, thence
to the Waikoreke, thence to Tiritiri-ma-
tanga, down which it runs to Ongaru,
and there follows the stream to Poko-
taringa, running parallel to the Ngaruroro
which the boundary crosses running up
a gully from the swamp and thence it
runs down to te Urua o Makai where it
falls into the Ngaruro and runs up the
stream till it joins the starting point at
the month of Maraekakaho.

No. 2.
BOUNDARIES OF THE MATA BLOCK:

Estimated to contain 16,000 Acres.

Commencing at te Ngakau o Hape,
running thence to Taumata o te Mihiroa,
thence to te Rou Pungarehu, thence to
Hikahika, thence to te Waikaka, thence
to te Wai o Hinerakai, thence to te Tau-
mata o Puku, where it turns and runs
along the ridge to Papahuakina, thence
to Tauroa, thence to te Motu o Hine-
rangi thence to the Taurua, thence to
Kaiwaka and down the Tukituki to te
Ahi Koura, thence across the plain by a
trench cut by Mr. F. FitzGerald, Wai-
puna, and through the middle of the
swamp to Karituwhenua.

The boundary of the Reserve called
"Karauua’s land" begins at Karitu-
henua and runs in a straight line to te
Hau, thence it runs along the ridge to
te Kahurangi, where it turns and runs
to the Mokopeke, thence to Wanawana,
and thence to te Ngakau o Hape.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, November 11th, 1856.

His Excellency the Governor directs
it to be notified for general informa-
tion that, with a view to the early consi-
deration of such documents, all Memorials
or other communications to the General
Government affecting the administration
of the Provincial Governments of the res-
pective Provinces of New Zealand should
be transmitted unsealed through the
Superintendents of such Provinces.

By His Excellency’s command,
E. W. Stafford.

IMMIGRANTS PER "OLIVER LANG."

Immigration Office,
10th March, 1857.

THE Subscribers to the Clapham Pro-
vident Association, can receive the
amount of their subscriptions by forwar-
ding their receipts to

JOHN KNOWLES,
Immigration Clerk.