Numb. 66.

951

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1880.

"Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876," brought
into force in the Wyndham Rabbit District, County
of Southland.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in
me by the seventh section of "The Rabbit
Nuisance Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1877," I,
Hercules George Robert Robinson, the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and
declare that, from and after the day of the date
hereof, "The Regulation of Local Elections Act,
1876," shall come into force in the Wyndham Rabbit
District, as constituted by Order in Council of the
twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighty.

And I do hereby further proclaim and declare that
the first election of Trustees of the said district shall
be held on the seventh day of August next, at the
house of Mr. Mathew Shirley, South Wyndham;
and I appoint

JOHN MITCHELL

to be Returning Officer to conduct the first elections
of Trustees for the said 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
twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Addition to Otago Gold Field.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the sixth section of "The Mines
Act, 1877," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation,
to constitute and appoint any portion of the colony
to be a mining district under this Act, to assign
boundaries to such district, to enlarge, contract, or
otherwise alter such boundaries, and to declare by
what local name every such district shall be desig-
nated; and, until the Governor shall otherwise order,
every gold field duly proclaimed or constituted at the
time of the commencement of this Act shall be and
be deemed a mining district under this Act :

And whereas the Otago Gold Field was constituted
at the time of the commencement of the said Act, and
it is desirable and expedient to enlarge the boundaries
of the said gold field:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robin-
son, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority
vested in me by "The Mines Act, 1877," do hereby
proclaim and order that the said mining district shall
be the same is hereby enlarged, so that such
mining district shall include the land described in the
Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Otago,
containing by admeasurement four hundred and
eighty-two (482) acres and eighteen (18) perches,
more or less, situate in the Chatton District, being
Sections Nos. 7, 10, 15, 16, and 17, Block IX., on
the map of the said district. Bounded towards the
North by Section No. 11; towards the South-east
by a road-line; again towards the North by Section
No. 8; towards the East by the Glenkenich Survey
District; towards the South by Sections Nos. 6 and
5; again towards the East by a road-line; and
towards the West by the western boundaries of said