RANGITATA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1600, 4 July 1887, Page 3

RANGITATA.

x'Thls electorate is composed of parts of i y the old electorates of Ashburton, Wakanui i »nd Geraldine. The boundaries are : — < Beginning at the month of the Rakaia, B follow op that rivpr to the railway bridge. ■ thence around the eoath side of the f township to the railway line, thence •long the railway line to the town district of Hampstesd, thence Booth around that ; distrlot and Tinwald to the rail- \ way line, thenoe around the north boundary of that district to the , right bank of the Ashburton river. , X fhenCd by that iver to its source, thence to Mount Gotha, and the main > range, tAence west to Mount Petetmann, , thence BOnth by the boundary of Tekapo , Biding and Two Thumb rangejto the i •ouroe of Forest Creek, near Fox Peak, ; 1 thence south along the crest of the water shed between the Opuha and Rangitata j rivers to source of the Bae-hne-te-Moana, , thence southeasterly by that rivor to the , boundary of the Temuka Riding, thence , east by that boundary to the railway lino* , thenoe oouth by the railway line to the town dlotrict of Arowbenua, thence •Mt and eonth around that town district to the Opihl river, tfaenoe ea«t by that river to the sea, thence north easterly along the coast line to the mouth of Bakaia the the starting point.