THE NEW ELECTORATES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1603, 5 July 1887, Page 3

THE NEW ELECTORATES.

Wellington, July 4. There hare been many change* in the electoral boundaries in adjusting the district* to the quota of population, resulting in the number of electorates in the North Island befog increased by three, and those in the Middle Island being decreased by the same number, the numbers now being respectively 39 and 52, or in all 91 lor (he colony. The decrease in the Middle Island has been effected by the making one electorate less in the group of West Coast, Nelson, and Marlborough electorates, and two less in the Canterbury and Otsgo group. In the North Island two electorates are given to the Wellington, Taranaki, and Eawkes Bay group of electoral districts, and one to Auckland group. The alterations and adjustments caused by these changes have necessarily so affected boundaries as to render some of the Old names no longer applicable or descriptive. The following names have, therefore, been discarded, viz.: Auckland East, Wellington South, Wairarapa South, Weirarapa North, Pioton, Waimea, Stanmore, Coleridge, Wakanui, Geraldine, Moeraki, and Waikonaiti, The new names are: Auckland Central, Pononby, Woodville, Masterton, Wairarapa, Wellington Bart, Wellington Booth nnd suburb, Waimea, Picton, Linweod, Bangitats, Waihemo, and Walkaia. The electorates which remain as they were are: Auckland, Napier, Nelson, Hokitika. Wairau, Christchurch North, Christchurch South, Dunedin Bast, Boilyn, and Wallace.

BANGITATA. This electorate is composed of parts of the old electorates of Ashburton, Wakunui and Geraldine. The boundaries are: Beginning at the month of the Bakaia, follow up that river to the railway bridge, thenoe around the south side of the township to the railway line, thence along the railway line to the town district of Hamstead, thenoe south around that district and Tinwald to the railway line, ' thenoe around the north boundary of that district to the right bank of the Ashburton river, (hence by that river to its sonree, thenoe to Mount Gotha and the main range, thenoe west to Mount Petermans, thence sooth by the boundary of Tekapo Biding and Two Thumb Bange to the source of Forest Creek, near Box Peak, thence south along the crest of the water shed between the Opuha and Bangitata rivers to source of the Hae-hae-te-Moana, thenee southeasterly by that river to the boundary of the Temnka Biding, thenee east by that boundary to the railway line, thenoe south by the railway line to the Town District of Arowhenua,_ thenoe east and south around that Town District to the Opihi Biver, thence east by that rivet to the sea, thence northeasterly along the coast line to the month of Bakaia, the starting point.