✨ Gold Field Withdrawal and Court Orders




750
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

so far as such provisions may specially authorize the
sale or leasing of land within a gold field: Provided
that it shall be lawful for the Governor, at any time
subsequent to the proclamation of a gold field, to
withdraw by Proclamation therefrom any Crown
lands which he may deem it necessary to withdraw;
and such lands shall thenceforth be dealt with, sold,
occupied, and disposed of under any law or laws for
the time being in force regulating the sale, occupa
tion, or disposal of, or in any way affecting or relating
to the management of 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 pro
claimed gold field: And whereas, by Proclamations
bearing date the twenty-second day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and the
nineteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, and the seventeenth day of September,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy, certain
lands, including the lands mentioned or described in
the Schedule hereto, were under and by virtue of the
said Act proclaimed and declared to be a gold field:
And whereas it is desirable and expedient to with
draw from the said gold field the lands mentioned or
described in the said Schedule:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of every
power and authority enabling me in that behalf, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the lands in the
said Schedule hereto mentioned are hereby withdrawn
from the said gold field.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land contained within the
dotted red lines, being generally, unless otherwise
indicated on plan, not more than five chains on either
side of the line tinted red on the plan marked C.W.
246, which plan is for the purposes of this Proclamation
identified by the signature of the Honorable Edward
Richardson, and deposited in the office of the
Registrar of the Supreme Court at Hokitika, in the
Province of Westland.

The said line commencing at or near a point which
is situated in a north-westerly direction about thirty-
three chains, more or less, from the seventeenth mile-
post of the Hokitika and Christchurch Road, in the
Province of Westland, and indicated by a peg driven
in the ground and marked 295B, the said peg being a
peg of the Waimea Water Race survey line; proceed
ing thence in a generally west-north-westerly direc
tion for a distance of about one hundred and ninety
chains, more or less, and terminating at a peg driven
in the ground and marked 496, the said peg being a
peg of the Waimea Water Race survey line.

The whole of the above-described piece or parcel
of land being situated between the Hokitika and
Christchurch Road, near the seventeenth mile-post,
and Fox's Township, in the Province of Westland.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
the Most Honorable George Augustus
Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl
of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George; 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 the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-fifth day of November, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Circuit Court to be held at Napier in December next.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-fifth day of November, 1875.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Supreme Court Act, 1860,"
it is enacted that there shall be held Circuit
Courts for the despatch of civil and criminal business
of the Court before one of the Judges thereof, at
such places and times as the Governor in Council
may from time to time appoint:

And whereas by Order in Council made the first
day of November, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, the Governor appointed
Circuit Courts to be held within the Wellington
District, at the Provincial Council Chamber at
Napier, on the second Monday in each of the months
of June and December in each and every year:

And whereas it is expedient that a Circuit Court of
the Supreme Court should be held at the Supreme
Court House at Napier on Wednesday, the fifteenth
day of December next, in lieu of the Circuit Court
appointed by the said in part recited Order in Council
to be held at Napier on Monday, the thirteenth day
of December next:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, in exercise and pursuance of the power and
authority vested in him by "The Supreme Court
Act, 1860," doth hereby revoke the said in part
recited Order in Council so far, but so far only, as
the same appoints a Circuit Court of the Supreme
Court to be held in the Wellington District on the
second Monday in December next, at the Provincial
Council Chamber at Napier; and doth hereby appoint
that, in lieu of the Circuit Court so appointed to be
held, there shall be held in the said district, at the
Supreme Court House at Napier, on Wednesday,
the fifteenth day of December next, a Circuit Court
for the despatch of civil and criminal business of the
said Court.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Circuit Court to be held at Blenheim in January next.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-fifth day of November, 1875.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Supreme Court Act, 1860,"
it is enacted that there shall be held Circuit
Courts for the despatch of civil and criminal business
of the Court before one of the Judges thereof, at
such places and times as the Governor in Council
may from time to time appoint:



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🌾 Proclamation Withdrawing Land from Gold Field in Westland (continued from previous page)

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
25 November 1875
Proclamation, Gold field withdrawal, Crown lands, Hokitika, Waimea Water Race, Westland
  • George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Governor
  • Edward Richardson

βš–οΈ Order Appointing Supreme Court Circuit Court Date at Napier for December 1875

βš–οΈ Justice & Law Enforcement
25 November 1875
Circuit Court, Supreme Court, Napier, Order in Council, Civil and criminal business
  • NORMANBY, Governor
  • FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council

βš–οΈ Order Regarding Supreme Court Circuit Court to be Held at Blenheim in January

βš–οΈ Justice & Law Enforcement
25 November 1875
Circuit Court, Supreme Court, Blenheim, Order in Council, The Supreme Court Act 1860
  • NORMANBY, Governor