GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Marlborough Press, Volume I, Issue 19, 12 May 1860, Page 3

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

r From the Marlborough Government Gazette, May 11.] at the government house at AUCKLAND, THE FOURTH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1859. Present His Excellency the Governor. Colonel Gold, I Mr. Whitaker, Mr. Richmond, | Mr. Tancred. ~W THERKAS by an act of the General W Assembly of New Zealand intituled the “New Provinces Act, 1858,” it is enacted that whenever not less than 3-sths of the registered electors entitled to vote ift the election of Members of the House of Representatives resident within any district, whereof the area shall not be less than 500,000 acres, shall petition the Governor in Council to establish a New Province comprising such districts, the Governor in Council, by Order published in the New Zealand Government Gazette, shall with all convenient speed establish such Province accordingly, subject nevertheless

to the fulfillment of certain conditions in the said Act, specified. And whereas a petition has been duly presented praying for the establishment of a New Province at W airau, in the Province of Nelson, and the several requirements and conditions of the said Act have been duly complied with and fulfilled : Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf vested in him by the said recited Act, doth by this present Order establish a New Province to be called and known by the name of Marlborough, and doth define the limits of the said Province to be as follows, that is to sa y— a ll that district, being heretofore parcel of the Province of Nelson, which lies, or is within the boundary following, that is to say —Commencing at the mouth of the river Tutaiputuputu, or Conway, and following that river to its source, thence running in a straight line to the confluence of the rivers Acheron and Clarence, thence by the Acheron to the confluence of the Guide, and by that stream to Barefell’s Pass, thence in a straight line to the Top House, Wairau Valley, thence in a straight line to the summit of" Ward’s Pass, thence by the summit of the watershed, to the Red Hills at the source of the Pelorus, thence by the Pelorus to the confluence of the Heringa, thence by the Heringa to. its source in or near Saddle Hill, thenite in a straight line to the summit of Saddle Hill, thence by the summit of the watershed between the Pelorus and Blind Bay, to the summit of Moun t McLaren, and thence in a straight line to the head of that arm of Tennyson Inlet which approaches nearest to Squall Cove, Croiselles Harbour. And the Governor, by and with the advice and consent aforesaid, doth hereby, in further pursuance of the said Act, constitute the town of Picton, heretofore called Waitohi, to be the capital of the said Province of Marlborough. And doth declare that this Order shall take effect on the first day of November, 1859. F. G. Steward, Clerk of the Executive Council.