Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1866 – No. 10

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✨ Government Proclamations and Notices

NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor’s Command,

EDWARD JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XIII.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1866. [No. X.]

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor Samuel Bealey, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, withdrawing certain Waste Lands of the Crown situate within the West Canterbury Gold Field.

WHEREAS, by Proclamations in the Provincial Government Gazette, dated respectively the Second and Fourth days of March, 1865, I, SAMUEL BEALEY, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in me in this behalf, did constitute and appoint certain portions of the said Province to be a Gold Field under the name of the “West Canterbury Gold Field,” and the limits of which Gold Field I did in and by the said Proclamations define: And whereas the Lands herein-after described are Waste Lands of the Crown, and are within the said limits, and form part of the said West Canterbury Gold Field so proclaimed as aforesaid, and no Pastoral License exists over the said last-mentioned Lands: And whereas it has been made to appear to me that the Lands hereinafter described are necessary for public purposes;

Now, therefore, I, SAMUEL BEALEY, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that I do withdraw the Lands herein-after described; that is to say—

All that piece or parcel of land, containing fifty acres, more or less, situate at Wright’s lower camp on the Otira, having a frontage of twenty-two chains fifty links on the eastern bank of the Otira, and extending back a like distance in a rectangular block.

All that piece or parcel of land, containing fifty acres, more or less, situate on the Waimakariri river, where the road from Hokitika strikes the Teramakau, being a square block of land.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this Twenty-sixth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
Edw. Jollie,
Provincial Secretary.

SALE of TOWN and RURAL LANDS

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Feb. 3, 1866.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has fixed Monday, the Nineteenth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, at the hour of noon, at a sitting of the Waste Lands Board, in the Land Office, at Christchurch, as the time and place when a sale by auction of Town and Rural Land shall take place, in accordance with clause 24 and clause 35 of the Waste Lands Regulations, subject to the usual conditions of sale, and

Vol. 13.—No. 10.

VUW Te Waharoa — Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1866, No 10

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🗺️ Proclamation withdrawing Waste Lands of the Crown within the West Canterbury Gold Field

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated26 January 1866
KeywordsProclamation, Waste Lands, West Canterbury Gold Field, Otira, Waimakariri river
👩‍💼 Officials

Samuel Bealey, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury
Edw. Jollie, Provincial Secretary

🗺️ Notice of Sale of Town and Rural Lands

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated3 February 1866
KeywordsSale, Town and Rural Lands, Auction, Waste Lands Board, Christchurch
👩‍💼 Officials

Provincial Secretary

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