Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1869 – No. 38

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✨ Legal and Mining Notices

NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XVI. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1869. No. XXXVIII.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, entitled "The Canterbury Temporary Mining Reserves Act, 1869," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Canterbury, by Proclamation, to temporarily reserve from sale any lands in which he shall have good reason to believe that precious metals exist. Provided that no such reservation shall continue in force beyond the end of the Session of the Provincial Council next after the issue of such Proclamation.

Now therefore I, William Rolleston, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, by virtue of the powers enabling me in that behalf, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land described in the Schedule hereto.

Given under my hand at Christchurch this Ninth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

Wm. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

Six hundred and forty acres, more or less, situate in the Rakaia district, bounded on the south-westward by the road leading by Windwhistle House, and forming the south-western boundary of section 13,636, on the south-eastward by a straight line drawn in a north-easterly direction from a bend in the said road, situate twenty-nine chains east of the south-eastern corner of the aforesaid section to the Trig. pole, a distance of about one hundred and seventeen chains, on the north-eastward by a line at right angles to the last-described boundary, drawn through the said Trig. pole, and on the north-westward by a line parallel to the south-eastern boundary, so as to contain the above quantity, exclusive of sections Nos. 13,636 and 13,637.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,

CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

LANE v. FRANKS.

Writ of Fi. Fa.

WHEREAS I the undersigned Alexander Back Sheriff of the Canterbury District of New Zealand have taken in execution and levied upon the real estate and lands hereinafter described of Francis William Franks of the City of Christchurch in the Province of Canterbury in the Canterbury District of the Colony of New Zealand Baker under and by virtue of writ of Fieri Facias for the sum of Seventy-three Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Ninepence Halfpenny with the interest upon the said

Vol. XVI., No. 38.

PRINTED BY JOHN STEELE GUTHRIE, CHRISTCHURCH, AT THE "PRESS" OFFICE, CASHEL STREET.

VUW Te Waharoa — Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1869, No 38

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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🌾 Temporary Mining Reserve Proclamation

Domain🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Dated9 September 1869
KeywordsMining Reserve, Land Reservation, Rakaia District, Canterbury
👩‍💼 Officials

William Rolleston, Superintendent

⚖️ Supreme Court Writ of Fieri Facias

Domain⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
KeywordsWrit of Fieri Facias, Supreme Court, Canterbury District, Francis William Franks
👱🏽 Names

Francis William Franks, Subject of Writ of Fieri Facias

👩‍💼 Officials

Alexander Back, Sheriff of Canterbury District

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