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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[SEPT. 25

therefor: And whereas the lands described in the
Second Schedule hereto are also Crown lands subject
to be dealt with under the said Act, for alienation
by occupation licenses on deferred payments as afore-
said:

Now, therefor, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, do hereby select and set apart, for the purpose of
granting agricultural leases thereon and therefor, the
lands described in the First Schedule hereto; and do
fix the thirtieth day of October next ensuing, at the
Warden's office at Naseby, as the day and place on
which the said land shall be open for application in
allotments, as surveyed and marked on the survey
map in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Dunedin.

And I do hereby further select and set apart, for
the purpose of alienation by occupation licenses on
deferred payments, the lands described in the Second
Schedule hereto; and do fix the thirtieth day of
October aforesaid, as the day on which the said
allotments shall be open for application in allotments,
as surveyed and marked on the survey map in the
office of the Chief Surveyor, Dunedin.

SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
DUNBACK DISTRICT.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
DUNBACK DISTRICT.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished 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
twentieth day of September, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.

JAMES W. THOMSON,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Setting apart Land in Otago for Alienation on
Deferred Payments.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREEAS by the fifty-fourth section of "The
Mines Act, 1877," it is, amongst other things,

enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor to
cause Crown lands situate within a gold field to be
selected and set apart for the purpose of granting
agricultural leases thereon and therefor, or for
alienation by occupation licenses on deferred pay-
ments under any law for the time being in force in
the land district in which such mining district is
situate:

And whereas the lands described in the Schedule
hereto are Crown lands subject to be dealt with
under the provisions of the said Act, and it is deemed
expedient to set the same apart, to be dealt with
under the said Act, for alienation by occupation
licenses on deferred payments as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, do hereby select and set apart, for the purpose
of alienation by occupation licenses on deferred pay-
ments, the lands described in the Schedule hereto;
and do fix the sixth day of October next ensuing as
the day on which the said allotments shall be open for
application in allotments, as surveyed and marked on
the survey map in the office of the Chief Surveyor,
Dunedin.

SCHEDULE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished 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 September, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.

JAMES W. THOMSON,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Oyster-bed at Port Adventure, Stewart Island,
closed.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREEAS by "The Oyster Fisheries Act, 1866,"
it is, amongst other things, enacted that the
Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation in
the New Zealand Gazette, declare any natural oyster-
bed to be closed against dredging for any period to
be stated in such Proclamation: And whereas by a
Proclamation dated the tenth day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, the natural
oyster-beds at Port Adventure, Stewart Island,
were closed against dredging for a period of three
years from the twenty-second day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six: And