No. 16.
379

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1886.

Addition to Otago Goldfield.

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
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 designated; and, until the Governor shall otherwise order, every goldfield 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 Goldfield 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 goldfield:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, 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 and 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 commencing at the south-east corner of the Rankleburn Survey District, and extending west along the southern boundary of the said district to the Pomahaka River; thence by a line 10 chains south of the said river to the south-west corner of the Rankleburn District; thence by a line due west to the Waikaka River; thence by a line 10 chains west of the said river to the present goldfields boundary.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 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 nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

W. J. M. LARNACH.
Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Additional Land taken at Hastings Station for the Purposes of the Wellington-Napier Railway.

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable, for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Wellington-Napier Railway, to take further land at Hastings Station, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by "The Public Works Act, 1882," and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

Approximate Area
of the Parcel of
Land required to
be taken.

Being
Section
No.

Situated in Block

Situated in the
Town of

A. R. P.
0 0 30

56

E, Heretaunga
(Native block)

Hastings.

In the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 13790, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 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 nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!