572
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do, by
this Proclamation, dissolve the Provincial Council of
the said Province of Nelson accordingly.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at Wellington, this eleventh
day of October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

West Wanganui Gold Field.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is,
among other things, enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor from time to time to consti-
tute and appoint any portion of the Colony to be a
gold field under the provisions of the said Act, and
the limits of such gold field from time to time to alter
as occasion shall require; and also, if he shall see fit, to
revoke the Proclamation by which such gold field shall
have been constituted: And whereas by "The Gold
Fields Act Amendment Act, 1868," it is also enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor, if and when-
ever he shall have by lease, agreement, or otherwise,
by consent of the Native owners of any land over
which the Native title has been extinguished, or the
Native owners of any land over which the Native
title has not been extinguished, obtained power from
such Native or other owners to authorize entry on
such lands for mining for gold, by Proclamation issued
under the third section of the said Act, to include
such land within any gold field, or to proclaim such
land a gold field; and whenever any land over which
the Native title has or has not been extinguished
shall have been so proclaimed by the Governor within
a gold field or to be a gold field, the same shall be
subject to the provisions of the said Act and the said
Amendment Act, except where otherwise specially
provided herein, and shall be deemed to be Crown
lands within the meaning and for the purposes of the
said Act: And whereas the consent of the Native
owners of the land described in the Schedule
hereto, authorizing entry thereon for the purpose of
mining, has been obtained by the Governor as re-
quired by the lastly in part recited Act, and it is
expedient that the said land should be proclaimed
to be a gold field as and in manner hereinafter
provided:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the power and authority vested
in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Acts, do
hereby proclaim the tract of land described in the
Schedule hereto as and to be a Gold Field under and
subject to the provisions of the said Acts, and to be
called and known by the name of

THE WEST WANGANUI GOLD FIELD.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF NATIVE LAND AT
WEST WANGANUI TO BE PROCLAIMED A GOLD
FIELD.

ALL that parcel of land bounded as follows:--Com-
mencing at the mouth of the West Wanganui Inlet ;
thence by the shore of the said inlet to the mouth of
the Manga-manga-rakau Creek ; thence following the
Manga-manga-rakau Creek to its source; thence by
a line to the summit of the watershed of the Whaka-
marama Range; thence by lines from peak to peak
along the summit of the said range to the Iwituaroa
Range; thence by lines from peak to peak along the
summit of that range to Kahurangi Point; and
thence by the sea coast to the mouth of the West
Wanganui Inlet, the commencing point.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony at Wellington, this fourteenth
day of October, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Portion of District of Waiapu withdrawn from the
operation of "The Outlying Districts Sale of
Spirits Act, 1870."

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Outlying Districts Sale of
Spirits Act, 1870," it is enacted that the
Governor in Council may, by Proclamation in that
behalf, from time to time define districts and bring
the same under the operation of the said Act, and
may at any time, and from time to time thereafter,
alter the boundaries of such districts, or withdraw
any district, or any part of any district, from the
operation of the said Act; and also that no part of
any town or city shall be brought under the opera-
tion of the said Act, and also that no district shall
be defined or brought under the operation of the
said Act, unless at least two-thirds of the inhabitants
of such districts are persons of the Native race:
And whereas by a Proclamation duly made and
issued, bearing date the twenty-first day of Decem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, the
Governor in Council, in pursuance and exercise of
the said recited power and authority, did define the
District of Waiapu, hereinafter mentioned (with
other districts), as the said districts were described
in the Schedule thereto, and did bring the same
under the operation of the said Act: And whereas
it is expedient to withdraw a portion of the said
District of Waiapu from the operation of the said
Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir James Fer-
gusson, Baronet, the Governor of New Zealand, in
exercise and pursuance of the power and authority
vested in him by the said Act, and by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby withdraw all
that portion of the said District of Waiapu men-
tioned in the Schedule hereto from the operation of
the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of the District of Waiapu, com-
mencing at Maungahaumi; thence to the source of
the Waimata River; thence to the mouth of the
said river at Turanganui; thence along the sea
coast to Paretu; thence following the south-western