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Southland Times, Issue 1056, 13 November 1868, Page 3

OFFICIAL NOTIFICATIONS. General Post Office, Wellington, 21st September, IS6B. |"N virtue of the powers 1 delegated to L the Postmaster- General by His | Avxcellency the Governor, the following ; appointments have been made in the I Postal Service of the Colony. John Hall. Southland. (Name) (To be Postmaster at) (From) Henry Rogers Orepuki 1 Sept., 1868. General Post Office, Wellington, 27th August, 1868. . IN virtue of the powers delegated to the Postmaster-General by His Excellency the Governor, the following appointments have been made in the Postal Service of the Colony. John Hall. Southland. Name. To be Postmaster at From James Roche, Athol 7 Mai 1 ., 1868. G.E. Tucker, Campbelltown 1 April, 1-865. Henry Walker, Otautau 1 July, 1868. G. F. Bowen, Governor. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation in the ' New Zealand Gazette,' to constitute throughout the Colony, or in j any part thereof, districts to be called Resident Magistrates' Districts, and such districts from time to time to abolish and the boundaries to define and alter, and in any such Proclamation to fix a time on and from which any such district shall be constituted or abolished as the case may be: And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, published in the ' New Zealand Gazette ' on the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hun- ; dred and sixty-seven, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities for that purpose vested in him, did proclaim and declare the districts described in the Schedule to the said Proclamation, including amongst other districts the District of Clutha and the District of Southland, to be, on and from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, Resident Magistrates' Districts within the meaning of the said Act : And whereas it is expedient to define and alter the boundaries of the respective Districts of Clutha and of Southland in manner hereinafter appearing : Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authorities for that purpose vested in me, do hereby proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the said Districts of Clutha and of Southland, as the same are defined and described in the Schedule hereto; shall, from and after the first day of November, be the boundaries of the Districts of Clutha and of Southland within the meaning and for the purposes of" The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867," and I do hereby, from the date aforesaid, define and alter the boundaries of the said districts accordingly. SCHEDULE. Southland District. This district comprises all that area included within the boundaries of the Province of Southland, including Stewart's Island and the adjacent islands, and that portion of the Province of Otago lying to the westward of the Clutha District, hereinbefore defined. Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commanderin- Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and ViceAdmiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington ; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this thirtieth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. E. W. Staitobd. Goi» save the Queen ! ■ — — — ■ ■ — ■ — — — — — — | PROCLAMATION. 1 By the Honorable John Pabkin Tayloe, Superintendent of the Province of Southland. IN pursuance of the power in me vested in that behalf by the " Education Ordinance, 1862," I hereby proclaim and declare that the district named and described in the Schedule hereinunder written, shall be an Educational District under the said Ordinance, and I do hereby further declare that the provisions of the said Ordinance shall come into operation in the said district from and after the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyeight. Given under my hand, this fifth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. John P. Taylor, Superintendent. SCHEDULE. WAIMATFKU EDUCATION DISTRICT. Bounded on the north by the road I line forming the northern boundary of 1 sections Nos. 11, 22, 44, and 53, block