New Zealand Gazette – 1881 – No. 71

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✨ Appointments and Regulations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 71

Governor, this thirty-first day of August,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
one.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Fixing Sittings at Patea of the District Court of
Wanganui.

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and au-
thority in this behalf enabling me, I, Arthur
Hamilton Gordon, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that sittings
of the District Court of Wanganui, for civil and
criminal business, shall be held as follows, in lieu of
those previously fixed and appointed :-

In the Courthouse at Patea, on the Monday before
the second Thursday in the months of January,
April, July, and October in each year.

Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as
aforesaid shall happen to be a holiday, then the Court
appointed for that day shall be holden on the first
day thereafter not being a holiday.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this third day of September,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
one.
THOMAS DICK.

Amended Regulations respecting Mineral Leases under
"The Mines Act, 1877."

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the fifty-first section of "The
Mines Act, 1877" (herein referred to as "the
said Act"), it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, subject to the provisions of the said
Act, from time to time to make, alter, amend, and
revoke rules and regulations for all or any of the
purposes thereinafter enumerated: And whereas by
the fifty-third section of the said Act it is enacted
that the rules and regulations contained in the
Appendices to the said Act shall be deemed to be the
first rules and regulations made under the fifty-first
and fifty-second sections of the said Act: And
whereas it is expedient that Regulation number
twenty-seven respecting the area of mineral leases,
and Regulation number twenty-eight respecting the
consideration under which such leases are granted,
under Appendix A to the said Act, should be amended,
in order that these regulations may be reconciled to
the provisions of sections forty-one and fifty-one of
the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
order that the regulations referred to above shall be
amended as hereinafter mentioned—that is to say,
Regulations twenty-seven and twenty-eight respecting
mineral leases under Appendix A of the said Act are
hereby revoked, and the following substituted in lieu
thereof:-

The extent of the areas of leases shall be
(except in special cases hereinafter provided for)-

For coal leases, an area not less than ten acres
nor more that three hundred and twenty
acres.

For all other leases under these regulations, an
area not less than one acre nor more than two
hundred acres.

The rents reserved shall be as follow:-

For coal leases, an acreage annual rent, payable
in advance, of not less than sixpence nor more
than five shillings, or a royalty on, every ton
raised not exceeding one shilling.

For mineral leases other than coal, an acreage
annual rent, payable in advance, of one shilling,
or, by way of royalty, a sum not less than one-
hundredth and not more than one-fiftieth of
the mineral raised, to be payable as in the
leases shall be expressed, and to be estimated
on the value of the mineral or metal at the
mouth of the mine.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this seventh day of September,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
one.
WM. ROLLESTON.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st August, 1881.