ORDER IN COUNCIL. G. GREY, Governor.. By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, K. C. B., Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand, &c., &c., &c., With the advice and con- sent of the Executive Council of the said Colony. WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the " Native Districts Regulation Act, 1858," it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Gover- nor in Council from time to time to appoint Districts for the purposes of the said Act, being Districts over which the Native Title shall not for the time being have been extinguished: And whereas it is expedient that the District hereinafter described should be appointed a District for the purposes of the said Act: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Gover- nor, by and with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, doth hereby order, appoint, and declare that the Territory hereafter des- " KIA WHAKAKOTAHITIA TE PAKEHA ME TE MAORI"

WHAKARITENGA A TE TINO RU- NANGA O TE KAWANA. G. GREY, Te Kawana.

Na Kawana KEREI, Na te Kawana o Niu Tirani, ratou ko tona Tino Runanga. NO te mea, kua oti te whakarite e te Ru- nanga Nui o Niu Tirani tetahi ture e huaina ana, "Ko te Ture whakatakoto tikanga ki nga Takiwa Maori, 1858"; a e mea ana taua Ture, e tika ana ma Te Kawana ratou ko tona Runanga, i tenei tiriti tenei wa, e whakariterite nga Takiwa hei mahinga mo taua ture, hei nga Takiwa ia kahore ano te tikanga Maori i mutu hoa i runga : A no te mea ka pai ano kia karangatia te Takiwa, meake tuhituhia, hei taunga mo taua Ture: Na, tenei a te Kawana te mea nei, rae te uru ano me te whakaae ano tona Runanga ki tenei meatanga, tenei te whakarite nei te karanga nei, ko tenei, whenua ka tuhia ake nei, hei Takiwa, hei taunga mo taua Ture Ara;—ka timata te rohe o taua whenua i te