[Extract from New Zealand Gazette.]
Proclamation on the Native Disturbances at New Plymouth.

Whereas conflicts between armed parties of aboriginal natives have recently taken place at New Plymouth, to the danger and alarm of Her Majesty's subjects who are engaged in their lawful occupations: Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that all persons whosoever, who shall unlawfully assemble with arms within, the boundaries of the district described in the Schedule to this Proclamation, will, without further notice, be treated as persons in arms against the Queen's authority, and active measures will be forthwith taken against them by Her Majesty's civil authorities and military forces.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at the Government House, at Auckland, this twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.

Schedule

Commencing on the sea-coast between the Waitaha and Puketapu Streams, at the northern termination of the eastern boundary to Otuwetaweta, on the Devon Road, which it crosses; thence following the said boundary, to Wakapirikaka, Te Pui o te Rangi, Te Matai, and Rorongia; thence along the southern boundary of the said block to Te Putatutonga, on the eastern boundary of the Hua Block; thence along the eastern boundary-line of that block until it meets the Mangaoraka River; thence along the left bank of that river to its source; thence to the south-west corner of the Omata Block; thence along the western boundary of the Omata Block until it reaches the sea at Okurukuru; thence along low-water mark to where the eastern boundary-line commences between the Waitaha and Puketapu Streams.