Page 6 Advertisements Column 1

Otago Witness, Issue 316, 19 December 1857, Page 6

(From the Provincial Government Gazette, December 18, 1857.) PROCLAMATION By His Honor William Cargill, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago. TXJTHEREAS by an Ordinance passed ' * by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled the " Roads' Ordinance, 1856," it is among other things enacted, Section 2, that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of the General Board of Road Trustees, from time to time, by proclamation in the Government Gazette, to alter, vary, diminish, or enlarge, the boundaries of any or all of the Districts named in the Schedule to the said Ordinance, and to increase the number of Districts by forming and naming new Districts. And whereas it is necessary to form a new District, named and bounded as after-mentioned : Now, therefore, I, the said Superintendent, with the advice and consent of the General Board of Road Trustees, do hereby proclaim and declare that there shall be a new District, to be named " Portobello District," and to be bounded as follows :—: — Portobello District. This District comprises the whole of- the Peninsula East of Anderson's Bay District,, bounded by the Ocean, the Harbour, and Anderson's Bay District. Given under my hand, and issued, under the Public Seal of the Pro(L.S.) vince of Otago, at Dunedin, this Seventh day of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-seven. "W. Cargill,) Superintendent. God Save. the Queen !