Nov. 11.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1605

"The Warden" shall mean a Warden appointed
under the law for the regulation and manage-
ment of gold fields exercising jurisdiction in
the Town of Ross:
"The said Acts" shall mean "The Gold Fields
Act, 1866," and "The Mines Act, 1877," and
shall include any amendments thereof.

2. The lands which may be leased under these
   regulations shall be the town sections defined on the
   map of the Town of Ross, in the Survey Office at
   Hokitika, in the County of Westland.

3. Under these regulations the surface only of
   such lands shall be leased, and no lease shall entitle
   the lessee to mine for gold on the land leased, or to
   extract, dig, or search for any metals or minerals
   therein or thereon.

4. No lease shall be granted under these regula-
   tions over any land in respect of which a mining lease
   or special claim under the said Acts may have been
   already granted, unless in such mining lease or
   special claim all right to occupy the surface of the
   land shall have been specially excepted or reserved,
   or unless the lessee of such mining lease or special
   claim shall assent to the issue of such surface lease
   and shall join therein.

5. No lessee under these regulations shall have
   any claim for compensation for any damage which
   may be caused or arise from mining operations
   carried on below the surface.

6. Any holder of an existing business license or
   miner's right issued under the said Acts, who has
   occupied and improved land in the said Township of
   Ross, and who may be desirous of obtaining a lease
   under these regulations, shall make application in
   writing to the Warden, specifying the number of the
   section applied for, and upon receipt of such applica-
   tion the Warden shall appoint a day for considering
   the same.

7. The applicant shall cause one calendar month's
   notice of his application, and of the day appointed
   for considering the same, to be inserted in at least
   one local newspaper best calculated, in the opinion of
   the Warden, to give publicity to the application, and
   the Warden shall forward his report and recommen-
   dations upon the application to the Minister of Mines.

8. Leases shall be granted for such term not
   exceeding twenty-one years as the Governor in
   Council shall determine.

9. The annual rental of each section shall be the
   sum of 10s. per annum, payable in advance.

10. Every lease shall be made in such form as the
    Governor in Council shall determine, and shall
    contain all usual and necessary covenants on the part
    of the lessee, together with a covenant on his part
    that the land leased shall not be assigned nor underlet
    without consent by or on behalf of the lessor, and
    together also with conditions for re-entry and for-
    feiture on non-payment of rent or on breach of
    covenant on the part of the lessee, and such further
    or other additional covenants and conditions as the
    Governor in Council shall think fit to require.

11. The cost of preparation of the lease and
    counterpart thereof shall be borne and paid by the
    lessee.

12. No transfer or assignment of any lease or
    special claim under these regulations, or of any
    interest therein, shall be valid without the consent of
    the Governor, and every such transfer or assignment
    shall be registered at the Warden's Office, and the
    sum of 2s. 6d. shall be paid for such registration.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Queenstown Recreation-ground brought under "The
Public Domains Act, 1860."

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
third day of November, 1880.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in
me by the eleventh section of "The Public
Reserves Act, 1877," I, James Prendergast, Chief
Justice of the Colony of New Zealand, and Adminis-
trator of the Government thereof, by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, do hereby order and declare that the reserve
made for public recreation in the Provincial District
of Otago, and known as the Queenstown Recreation-
ground, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall
be and the same is hereby brought under the opera-
tion of and declared to be subject to the provisions
of "The Public Domains Act, 1860," and its amend-
ing Acts; and such domain shall hereafter be
managed, administered, and dealt with in manner
directed by the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of
Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, situate in the
Town of Queenstown, being Block numbered LII. on
the map of the said town, containing by admeasure-
ment 3 acres 2 roods, more or less. Bounded towards
the North-west by Horne Creek, 1220 links; towards
the North-east by Camp Street, 310 links; towards
the South-east by Park Street, 780 links; and towards
the South-west by Park Reserve, 239 links: be all
the aforesaid linkages more or less.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Queenstown Domain Board
under "The Public Domains Act, 1860."

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
third day of November, 1880.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the eleventh section of "The
Public Domains Act, 1860," it is enacted
that the Governor, by Order in Council, may from
time to time delegate all or any of the powers by the
said Act conferred upon any person for any period,
and subject to such stipulations as may be specified
in such order, and that every such delegation may
from time to time in like manner be altered or re-
voked: And whereas it is enacted by "The Public
Domains Act, 1865," that the word "person" in the
hereinbefore recited section of "The Public Domains
Act, 1860," shall be deemed to include more persons
than one: And whereas pursuant to "The Public
Reserves Act, 1877," by an Order in Council of even
date herewith, the land described in the Schedule
thereto is declared to be brought under and to be
subject to the said "Public Domains Act, 1860:"

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New
Zealand, doth, by this present order, delegate all the