THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 617

New Zealand Coastal Steam Services.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 29th May, 1877.

SEALED Tenders will be received at the General
Post Office Wellington, until NOON of
SATURDAY, the 21st JULY next, for the per-
formance, during a period of twelve months com-
mencing from a date hereafter to be fixed by the
Postmaster-General, of any of the under-mentioned
steam services, viz. :-

1. Between Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, and
   Hokitika, and vice versa, once every four weeks.
2. Between Port Chalmers and the West Coast
   ports of the Middle Island, monthly. A steamer to
   leave Port Chalmers once in every month, proceed-
   ing to the West Coast of the Middle Island, by
   way of Cook and Foveaux Straits, alternately. The
   steamer to call at Lyttelton, Picton, Nelson, West-
   port, Greymouth, Hokitika, and The Bluff; and also,
   when required, at Oamaru, Timaru, Martin's Bay,
   Milford Sound, Preservation Inlet, and Port William
   in Stewart's Island; and at such other places as the
   Postmaster-General may from time to time direct.
   Tenderers should state the names, tonnage, and
   horse-power of the vessels to be employed in the
   service or services for which they tender.
   Further particulars, and terms and conditions of
   contract, may be obtained on applying to the General
   Post Office, Wellington, or the Chief Post Offices at
   Dunedin, Christchurch, Nelson, Hokitika, and
   Auckland.
   The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be
   accepted.
   Tenders to be addressed to the Hon. the Post-
   master General, Wellington, and endorsed "Tender
   for Steam Service."

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Deputy Inspector of Surveys for the Provincial Dis-
trict of Wellington appointed.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 5th June, 1877.

IT is hereby notified, that I have appointed
GEORGE WATKIN WILLIAMS, Esq.,
to be Deputy Inspector of Surveys for the purposes
of "The Native Land Act, 1873," for the Provincial
District of Wellington.
The appointment to date from the 1st instant.

J. T. THOMSON,
Inspector of Surveys.

Deputy Inspector of Surveys for the Provincial Dis-
trict of Taranaki appointed.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 5th June, 1877.

IT is hereby notified, that I have appointed
THOMAS HUMPHRIES, Esq.,
to be Deputy Inspector of Surveys for the purposes
of "The Native Land Act, 1873," for the Provincial
District of Taranaki.
The appointment to date from the 1st instant.

J. T. THOMSON,
Inspector of Surveys.

Deputy Inspector of Surveys for the Provincial Dis-
trict of Hawke's Bay appointed.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 5th June, 1877.

IT is hereby notified that I have appointed
HORACE BAKER, Esq.,
to be Deputy Inspector of Surveys for the purposes
of "The Native Land Act, 1873," for the Provincial
District of Hawke's Bay, and for that portion of the
Provincial District of Auckland included in the
Hawke's Bay Deeds Registration District.
The appointment to date from the 1st June, 1877.

J. T. THOMSON,
Inspector of Surveys.

Deputy Inspector of Surveys for the Provincial
District of Auckland appointed.

General Survey Office,
Wellington, 5th June, 1877.

IT is hereby notified that I have appointed
STEPHENSON PERCY SMITH, Esq.,
to be Deputy Inspector of Surveys under "The
Native Land Act, 1873" for all that portion of the
Provincial District of Auckland which is not included
in the Hawke's Bay Deeds Registration District.
The appointment to date from the 1st June, 1877.

J. T. THOMSON,
Inspector of Surveys.

Limits of the Wairau Gold Field defined.

PROCLAMATION.

By Arthur Penrose Seymour, Esquire, Executive
Officer for the Provincial District of Marl-
borough, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by clause three of "The Gold Fields
Act, 1866," the Governor is empowered from
time to time, by Proclamation, to constitute 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 may require: And whereas the Governor
in Council, under his hand and the Seal of the Colony,
did, on the sixteenth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six, delegate the said
recited power unto me, Arthur Penrose Seymour,
within the Provincial District of Marlborough:
And whereas it is expedient to alter the limits of the
Wairau Gold Field, in the said Provincial District:
Now, therefore, I, Arthur Penrose Seymour, do,
by this Proclamation, appoint that the boundaries
hereinafter mentioned shall henceforth be the limits
of the Wairau Gold Field aforesaid, instead of the
boundaries defined in a proclamation under my hand
and the Seal of the Province of Marlborough bearing
date the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six:-

Commencing at the saddle called Ward's Pass;
thence by Ward's Pass stream to its junction with
the river Goulter; thence by the north-western and
north-eastern boundaries of the Mount Patriarch
Run to the north-western corner of the North Bank
Run; thence by the northern boundary of that run
to the western boundary of the Hillersden Cattle
Run; thence by a right line to the most northern
point of the Quartz Run, licensed to Henry George
Bell; thence by a right line to the most northern
point of a block of Crown land on Langley Dale
Run, now held under a pastoral lease; thence by a
right line to the north-western angle of Langley
Dale Run No. 2; thence by the north-western
boundary of that run and surveyed sections in
Onamalutu Valley to the north-western corner of
Section numbered 134, Onamalutu Valley; thence
by a line bearing north, 47° E. magnetic, to a point
one mile distant from the trunk line of road through
the Kaituna Valley; thence by a right line bearing
north magnetic to the Watershed between the
Onamalutu and Kaituna Valleys; thence by that
Watershed to the summit of the ranges between the