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Otago Witness, Issue 249, 6 September 1856, Page 5

(From New Zealand Gazette of 27th May 1856.) PROCLAMATION. By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colon}' of New Zealand, and Vice- Admiral of the same, &c, &c. T^HEREAS it is expedient that that portion of the Province of Otago which comprises the lands known as Otakou, Kaikorai, Taieri, Mataau, and Te Karoro, and which piece or parcel j of land is bounded on the north by the sea coast, from a point at Purehurehu, half a mile distant from the western i head of the harbour of Otago to Otupa, and thence to Poatiri ; on the east by the sea shore from Poatiri aforesaid to Tokata ; on the south and south-west by the ridge of hills known as Taukohu to Pohuaroa ; on the west by a line running along the summit of the Kaihiku range, then by a right line drawn from the northern extremity of the said line along the summit of the Kaihiku range known as Munga Atua, thence by a line running north-north-easterly along the summit of the saidMunga Atua range to Waikari, thence by a line running along the summit of the hills, to the mountain known as Mihiwaka, and thence .by a line along the summit of the hills, till it joins the said northern boundary at Purehurehu, shouldbe divided into Hundreds. Now therefore I, the Governor, do hereby proclaim and declare that the same be divided into eight Hundreds to be called respectively the, hundred of Dunedin, the Hundred of East Tajeri, the Hundred of West Taieri, the Hundred of Waihola, the Hundred ,of South Tokomairiro, the of