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Now, therefore, I, Alfred Saunders, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, by virtue of the powers in me vested as aforesaid, do hereby revoke the above mentioned proclamation, and declare the same to be null and void from and after the date hereof, and I do hereby declare and proclaim all that territory whereof the boundary commences at Rangihacta Head, at the mouth of the River Takaka, thence up the western bank of that river to its junction with the River Anatoki; thence up the eastern bank of the River Anatoki to the western angle of section numbered 94 on square numbered 11 of the map of the Province of Nelson; thence following the western boundary of the surveyed lands in the districts of Takaka and Upper Takaka to the south-west angle of section numbered 30 on square numbered 8 of the said map; thence up the Waituhi stream to its source near Mount Campbell; thence along the watershed of Blind Bay, and of the valley of the River Takaka to the source of that river at Mount Arthur; thence along the watershed between the Rivers Karamea and Takaka to Mount Peel; thence along the watershed to Mount Arthur; thence along the watershed between the Rivers Karamea and Aorere to Mount Domett; thence by the watershed of the Aorere to Brown Hill; thence to the junction of the Rivers Clarke and Aorere; thence by the northern bank of the Aorere to Golden Bay; thence along the seaward boundary, exclusive of the surveyed sections, to Rangihacta Head, to be a gold-field within the meaning of the Gold-fields Act, 1862, and to be called the Golden Bay Gold-fields. And I do further proclaim and declare that the Rules and Regulations published in the Nelson Government Gazette, No. 28, of the 15th September, 1863, as "Rules and Regulations for the Golden Bay Gold-fields," shall continue and be in force for the gold-field hereby constituted.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Nelson, the First day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

ALFRED SAUNDERS,
Superintendent.

Attested,
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

By his Honor ALFRED SAUNDERS, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, in the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Gold-fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, at any time subsequent to the proclamation of a Gold-field to reserve or withdraw therefrom any lands which he may deem necessary, and such lands shall thenceforth be dealt with under the Waste Lands Regulations of the Province, in which such Gold-field is situate:

And whereas by an instrument under the hand of his Excellency the Governor and the Seal of the Colony, bearing date the Eighteenth day of November, 1865, the above-mentioned powers were delegated to me as Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, to have hold, and exercise within the said Province.

Now therefore, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, do hereby withdraw from the NELSON SOUTH GOLD-FIELDS, all that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 5,700 acres, be the same more or less, and bounded on the northward partly by a line running east and west magnetic 27,500 links, and partly by the land leased to Messrs. Jones and Frazorward by the east-ward and southward by the banks of the River Grey, and on the westward by a line drawn from the letters A to B on the plan of the town of Cobden, 19,600 links, the same being the south-west side of the street to the eastward of the cemetery in the said town.

Also all that parcel of land known as the Totara Flat, and containing by admeasurement 2,400 acres, be the same more or less bounded on the northward and westward by the banks of the River Grey, on the eastward by a reserve 14,000 links, and on the southward by a line drawn from the south-west angle of the said Reserve, to peg marked XV., on the traverse of the River Grey, 22,600 links.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province, at Nelson, the First day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

ALFRED SAUNDERS,
Superintendent.

Attested,
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government, Nelson, by R. LUCAS and SON, Bridge-street, Nelson, Printers for the time being to the said Government.