Numb. 64.

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1889.

Land declared open for Sale in Southland Land District.

(L.S.) ONSLOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the ninety-seventh section of "The
Land Act, 1885," it is enacted that the Governor,
by Proclamation, may from time to time declare any Crown
lands within any mining district, not held under license or
lease at the date of such Proclamation, or over which the
license or lease has been cancelled, to be open for sale or
selection, in sections of such size and form, and on such
date, as he may determine; and any land so proclaimed
may hereafter be sold at a like price, and subject to the like
terms and conditions, or as near thereto as may be, as Crown
lands of the same class not within a mining district; and
the Governor may from time to time alter, amend, or revoke,
any such Proclamation:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare
that the land specified in the Schedule hereto shall be open
for sale or selection on such date as may be fixed by the
Land Board of the Southland Land District.

SCHEDULE.

SECTION 1, Block II., Kingston District, 70 acres. Price,
£1 per acre.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of
Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley,
of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron
Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and
of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron
Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George; Governor and Com-
mander-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 Christchurch, this
sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Constituting Upper Winton River District, County of
Southland.

(L.S.) ONSLOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities
vested in me by "The River Boards Act, 1884," I, Wil-
liam Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from

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and after the date hereof, that part of the said colony de-
scribed in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is
hereby constituted a district under the said Act, and shall
be known by the name of the Upper Winton River District;
and that the number of the members who are to constitute
the Board of the said district shall be five. And I do also
proclaim and declare that William Russell, Esquire, of Win-
ton, shall be the Returning Officer to conduct the first
elections of five members of the aforesaid Board; that Mon-
day, the second day of December, one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighty-nine, shall be the day, and the Town Clerk's
Office, Winton, shall be the place, for holding such first
election; and that Thursday, the fifth day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, at eight o'clock in
the evening, shall be the time, and the said Town Clerk's
Office, shall be the place, at which the first meeting of the
members of the Board of the said river district shall be
held. And, lastly, I do proclaim and declare that the afore-
said William Russell shall be the person to make a roll of
electors for the purposes of the aforesaid first elections, in
the manner prescribed by section eight of the said "River
Boards Act, 1884."

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the County of Southland, situate in the
Winton Hundred, containing by admeasurement 3,800 acres,
more or less, and bounded towards the north by the road
forming the southern boundary of Section No. 3 of 20, Block
V., from the north-western corner of Section No. 12, Block
IV., to the road forming the western boundary of Sec-
tion No. 7, Block IX.; thence by the said Section No. 7 and
Section No. 2 of the said Block IX. to the south-eastern
corner of the last mentioned section; thence towards the
east by a right line to the north-eastern corner of Section
No. 17, Block VIII.; thence by the eastern boundary-lines
of Sections Nos. 17 (aforesaid), 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8,
7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 of the said Block VIII., and the east-
ern boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 36, 37, 38, and 44, Block
III., and the production of the eastern boundary-line of the
last-mentioned section across a road; thence towards the
south by Sections Nos. 50, 49, 48, 47, 46, and 45, Block III.
aforesaid, Section No. 9, Block VIII., East Winton, Sections
Nos. 1 and 48, Block VII., East Winton, and Sections Nos.
10, 11, 12, 13, and 1, Block IV., East Winton; towards the
west by the Invercargill-Kingston Railway to a point in line
with the northern boundary-line of Section No. 12, Block
IV., Winton Hundred; and thence again towards the north
by a right line to the north-western corner of that section,
the place of commencement.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of
Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley,
of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron
Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and
of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron
Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand