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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

or alter, and also to declare by what local name such
Courts shall be designated: And whereas by a Pro-
clamation bearing date the nineteenth day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the then
Governor of the said Colony did, in pursuance and
exercise of the power aforesaid, constitute and pro-
claim the district of the Colony therein described to
be a district within which a District Court should be
held under the said Act and "The District Courts Act
Amendment Act, 1865:" And whereas by another
Proclamation bearing date the twentieth day of
January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight,
the boundaries of the district described in the herein-
before in part recited Proclamation were altered, and
it was by the now reciting Proclamation declared
that the local name by which such Court should be
designated should be "The District Court of the
County of Westland:" And whereas by a further
Proclamation, bearing date the twenty-eighth day of
June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, after
reciting the lastly hereinbefore in part recited Pro-
clamation, it was (inter alia) proclaimed and declared
that from and after the first day of August, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy, the boundaries
of the district within which the District Court of the
County of Westland should be held should be altered,
and that thenceforth the boundaries thereof should
be the boundaries set forth in the Second Schedule
thereunder written: And whereas it is expedient to
alter the local name by which the said Court shall be
designated:
Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and
declare that from and after the first day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, the
local name of the said Court shall be altered, and
thenceforth the local name whereby the said District
Court shall be designated shall be
"THE DISTRICT COURT OF WESTLAND SOUTH."
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 fifth
day of March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
G. MAURICE O'RORKE.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land withdrawn from Otago Gold Field.
(L.S.)
JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it
is provided that it shall be lawful for the
Governor at any time subsequent to the proclama-
tion of a gold field, to withdraw by Proclamation
therefrom any Crown lands which he may deem it
necessary to withdraw, and that such lands shall
henceforth be dealt with, sold, occupied, and disposed
of under any law or laws for the time being in force
regulating the sale, occupation, or disposal, or in any
way affecting or relating to the management or
dealing with the Crown lands within the Province in
which such gold field is situate, in like manner in
every respect as though such lands had never been
comprised in any proclaimed gold field:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority
vested in me, do hereby withdraw
from the Otago Gold Field, proclaimed on the twenty-
ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven, so much of the parcels of land
described in the Schedule hereto as are included
within the said gold field.
SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Province of Otago, in the
Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasure-
ment one rood and thirty and two-tenths poles
(1r. 30.2p.), more or less, situated in the Town of
Ophir, being sections numbered respectively one (1)
and two (2), Block two (II.), on the map of the said
town; bounded towards the North by Swindon
Street, two hundred (200) links; towards the East by
section numbered three (3), two hundred and twenty
(220) links; towards the South by a street line two
hundred (200) links; and towards the West by a
street line two hundred and twenty (220) links.
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
tenth day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.
G. MAURICE O'RORKE.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Resumption of Land for Mining Purposes.
(L.S.)
JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it is enacted by "The Resumption of
Land for Mining Purposes Act, 1873," that
all lands alienated from the Crown, whether by way
of absolute sale, or lease, or for any lesser interest,
after the date of the passing of the said Act, shall be
liable to be resumed for mining purposes (except
lands alienated expressly for mining purposes) by
Her Majesty, on paying full compensation to the
licensee, lessee, or owner of the fee-simple thereof,
for the value, other than auriferous or argentiferous,
of the lands and improvements so resumed; such
value, in case of disagreement, to be ascertained by
arbitration, upon the terms and conditions therein-
after in the said Act provided:
And whereas it is further enacted, that the said
Act shall only be in force within a proclaimed gold
field, and shall not come into operation in any
Province, excepting the Province of Otago, until a
recommendation be made by the Superintendent and
Provincial Council of any Province that the said Act
be brought into operation within such Province, and
a Proclamation by the Governor in Council to that
effect be published in the New Zealand Gazette and
the Gazette of such Province:
And whereas a recommendation has been made by
the Provincial Council of the Province of Nelson,
expressed by a resolution of the said Council passed
on the 30th day of January now last past, that the
said Act be brought into operation within the said
Province of Nelson; and whereas the Superintendent