NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Southland Times, Issue 3296, 13 January 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

■T; ; ■' .;''.... -'-'-'»■ >•-' . —"As •■;;';:-■;:■:. A proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, December; 27, enlarges the area : of the ' 'District Court of '-Western;-Otago, by taking in all the i country to -the south, west of a. line drawn from Milford Sound to Meggat Burn. '- From the; latter, -place, the old -boundary is : followed to the mouth of the Taieri River, and thence south and west by the -sea to MUfordTSound,. : Stewart, Ruapuka* aud;adjacent Islands being included. . ; T ; The same'Gazette i proclaims the subdivision of the colony into sheep districts nine in number, and taking the names of the old provincial UistrictsT > That . of 0 tago includes the . "section^ of the' Island south;; of a line drawn from the mouth of the Waitaki river on the Coast to the summit by Mount: Aspiring, and thence to the : mouth of it_.e Awarua ;. river on the West Coast. It;is .partitioned Into., the Oamaru, Dunstan v DuhedihV^P6rt ChalT mers," Tapanui, . and Southland subdivisions; ; r the latter being defined as comprising all the country south of aline drawn from the mouth . of the Mataura river, north east by the river r ta Eyre; Peak, thence' by; .Thomsbn^. Livihgstohe,'and Earl mouUtaiito.tb Mount Christina/: thence south west to the ocean.. Stewart; and Ruapuka Islands are included in it/ ; ; r . "In compliance, with; the terms .of; the District RaUway: Act, 1877,- the formal assent; of the Governor is given to the construction of ; the railway ;from. Gore to Elbbw.The resignation of Lieiifei 6 -HaUoran from the ,K battery of the New Zealand regiment,; , bf; Artillery -Volunteer sis accepted. WUliam Arnold Hepburn, ;of London, is ap- ; pointed ; a commissioner ," of the Supreme Court of New Zealandj- : f or the purpbse.of ;adniihisterihg : baths,' .taMhg acknowledgments of married women, \&c?-T.TT- : T