60 AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

hundred links, be the same admeasurements a
little more or less. The West boundary of the
land commences at a point on the present line of
the Great South Road, marked out and agreed
upon by the settlers of Rama Rama, in the pre-
sence of John McBurney, of Drury, in the said
Province of Auckland, Settler, and Andrew Sin-
clair, and runs in a straight line to the Gate
opening into the Rama Rama Settlement afore-
said, and delineated and colored red on the Offi-
cail Plan of the district in the Waste Lands Office.

HAURAKI GOLDFIELD.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 27th March, 1871.

IN pursuance of the 29th Section of “The Gold-
fields Act, 1866,” and of the Regulations made
under that Act for the granting of Leases for Gold
Mining purposes, it is hereby notified that it is in-
tended to grant a Lease for Gold Mining purposes to
the Applicant specified in the Schedule hereunder,
unless valid objections can be shown against granting
such Lease.

Copy of the Application made, and Plan annexed,
may be seen at the Warden’s Office, Grahamstown.

Thomas B. Gillies,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

The Bass Rock Gold Mining Company, Limited;
applied for by Alexander Beveridge; 15 years’
lease of 10 acres more or less, quartz, situated
in the Waiotahi Creek, Thames Goldfield,
bounded by the “Bachelors,” “Beehive,”
“Gladstone” and “Ballarat and Rising Sun”
Claims, Karaka; application received in Warden’s Office, Grahamstown, at 11.5 a.m., 23rd
March, 1871. R.B. 835.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

By Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of
Auckland.

IN pursuance of the fifth clause of “The Highways
Act, 1871,” I do hereby bring the said Act into
operation within the

Hikurangi Highway District,

and I do appoint the first meeting of Ratepayers to
take place at the residence of Mr. Carter Junr.,
Hikurangi, on Monday, the 17th day of April next,
at two o’clock in the afternoon, and Richard Sissons,
Esq., of Hikurangi, to be Chairman of such meeting.

Given under my hand at Auckland, this
thirtieth day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.

Thomas B. Gillies,
Superintendent.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 27th March, 1871.

IT is hereby notified that the Chairman of the First
Meeting of the Ratepayers of the Puketutu
Highway District has reported in writing to the
Superintendent the names of the under-mentioned
persons, duly elected as Members of the District
Board:

Mr. Christian F. W. Blucher.
Mr. James Inglis.
Mr. Thomas Davis.
Mr. William Wilson.
Mr. Edwin Oldbury.

John Sheehan,
For the Provincial Secretary.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 27th March, 1871.

I HEREBY notify that the Chairman of the Board
of Highway Trustees for the Parnell District
has reported in writing to the Superintendent the
election of

Mr. George Fraser

as a Member of the District Board, in the place of
Mr. George Blott, resigned.

John Sheehan,
For the Provincial Secretary.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 27th March, 1871.

NOTICE is hereby given, in accordance with the
provisions of “The Highways Act, 1871,” that
a certified copy of the Assessment List for the
Omaha
Highway District has been forwarded to this Office.

John Sheehan,
For the Provincial Secretary.

COROMANDEL GOLDFIELD.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 27th March, 1871.

IN pursuance of the 29th Section of “The Goldfields
Act, 1866,” and of the Regulations made under
that Act for the granting of Leases for Gold Mining
purposes, it is hereby notified that it is intended to
grant a Lease for Gold Mining purposes to the Appli-
cants specified in the Schedule hereunder, unless valid
objections can be shown against granting such Lease.

Copy of the Application made, and Plan annexed,
may be seen at the Warden’s Office, Coromandel.

Thomas B. Gillies,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

Frederick Woolams on behalf of himself, John Reid,
Thomas Oliver and Charles Ring; 15 years’
lease of 8 acres of quartz mining land on the top
of Tokatea Range, Coromandel; bounded in a
southerly direction by the Tokatea Company’s
leasehold, on the north and west by unoccupied
ground, on the West the Claims “Peep o’
Day” and “Day Dawn” are near at hand;
partly held under miners’ rights; with right of
way to terminus of Tramway, and right to dis-
charge mullock on adjoining land, now unoccu-
pied; application received in Warden’s Office,
Coromandel, at 1:10 p.m., 22nd March, 1871.

Customs Department,
(Marine Branch.)

Wellington, 1st March, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

William Simpson

to be Harbour-master for the Port of Hokianga, vice
Alexander Beveridge.

Henry Sewell.