THE KING COUNTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7162, 30 October 1884, Page 5

THE KING COUNTRY.

[BY TELEGWAPH.—.SPECIAL COKRESPONDEST.J ■Wellington, "Wednesday. The following i 3 the schedule of the Native Land Settlement Act, which prevents all dealing with lands in the King Country :— All that area in the provincial districts of Auckland, Taranaki, and Wellington, bounded towards the north-west by Te Wharanroa block from the Aotea harbour to the Waitetuna River ; thence towards the northwest generally by the said Waitetuna River to its intersection by a right line running from Monnt Tahanui over the Teriki range, where the native track crossed the latter; thence by the said right line to Mount Tohanui; thence by a right line to Mount Pirongia ; thence by a right line to the confluence of the Waipa and the Puniu Rivers, and by the latter river and the Owairaka stream to its source; thence by a right line to the confluence of the Mangere stream with the Waikato River ; thence bv the lastmentioned river to tho Waipapa stream, and oy that stream to its sourca ; thence towards the east generally by the Tutua- Whangamata block to Lake Tanpo ; thence by a right line across that lake to the month of the Tauranga Kiver; thence by thst river to its source in tho Kaimanawa range ; thence by the summit of the said Kaimanawa range to the source of the Moawhanga Eiver, and thence by that river and the Raogitikei. River to the southern boundary line of the Otairi No. 5 block; thence towards the south generally by the southern boundary line of that block, and the Otairi No. 2 block to the Mangapapa. stream, thenco by the said Mangapapa stream and the Turakina River, to the southern boundary of the Maungakaretn block, thence by the southern and southwestern boundary lines of the said Maongakaretu block to the Wangaehu River, thence by the last-mentioned river, the head, and the Paraheke block, to the Mangawhero River, thence by 'that river to the Mungakawai stream, and by that stream to the north-western corner of the Oheneiti block ; thence, by the production of the northern boundary line of the last mentioned block, to the Karewarewa block ; thence, by that hlock and the Paiihouhou, Aratowaka, and Pukenui blocks to the Wanganui Biver; thence, towards the south-west generally by the said Wanganni River to the Wangamomona River ; thence, by the latter river and the Mangare stream to its source ; thence, by a line due west to the Taranaki confiscation boundary line; and thence bv that boundary line to the ocean; and 'thence towards the west by the ocean and the Aotea harbour to the place of commencsment.