Num. 24. 433

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1888.

Proclaiming Waikawa Hundred Extension, Southland Land District, under “The Land Act, 1885.”

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section seven of Appendix H of “The Land Act, 1885,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to declare any land comprised within a depasturing license to be either a new hundred or to be added to a hundred already proclaimed:

And whereas the Land Board of Southland have recommended that the land described in the Schedule hereto should be proclaimed a hundred under the provisions of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient that effect should be given to the said recommendation of the Land Board:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, do hereby proclaim that the portion of the waste lands particularly described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby constituted into a hundred, under and for the purposes of the said Act; and that it shall be called or known by the name set above the description of the said hundred in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

WAIKAWA HUNDRED EXTENSION.

ALL that parcel of land in the Southland Land District, being portions of the Otara, Waikawa, and Mokoreta Survey Districts, containing 19,400 acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the north-west corner of Section No. 1, Block V., Otara Survey District; thence due east to Waikawa River; thence easterly and afterwards southerly along said Waikawa River to the north boundary of Niagara Township; thence westerly along said township to the south-west corner of Section No. 1; Block VII., Waikawa Survey District; thence due north to south boundary of Section No. 8, Block VII. aforesaid; thence due west to south-west corner of Section No. 7, Block VII. aforesaid; thence due north to south boundary of Block IV., Waikawa Survey District; thence due west to east boundary of Block III., Waikawa Survey District; thence due south to south-east corner of Section No. 20, Block III. aforesaid; thence westerly along the south boundaries of Sections Nos. 20, 18, 17, and 16, Block III. aforesaid, to the north-east corner of Section No. 7, Block III. aforesaid; thence due south to south-east corner of said Section No. 7; thence due west to the eastern boundary of Section No. 17, Block IV., Otara Survey District; thence due south to the south-east corner of Section No. 22, Block IV. aforesaid; thence due west to the east boundary of Section No. 10, Block IV. aforesaid; thence due south to the south-east corner of Section No. 12, Block IV. aforesaid; thence due west to the south-west corner of Section No. 5, Block IV. aforesaid; thence due north to Tokonui Stream; thence north-easterly along said stream to south-west corner of Section No. 13, Block IV. aforesaid; thence due north to the north-west corner of Section No. 1, Block V. aforesaid, the starting-point.

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 ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

Thos. FERGUS,
Approved in Council. (For the Minister of Lands).
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Teremakau and Arahura Rivers declared Watercourses.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and fifty-fourth section of “The Mining Act, 1886” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor in Council may, from time to time, by Proclamation published in the Gazette, proclaim and declare that any watercourse shall be a watercourse into which tailings, mining débris, and waste water of any kind used in, upon, or discharged from any claim or licensed holding shall be suffered to flow or be discharged:

And whereas not less than ninety days’ notice has been published, in the manner provided by the said section, that application has been made to the Governor to proclaim the