Num. 21.

419

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1890.

Declaring certain Lands to be the Argyle Water-race, Charleston, and certain Streams to be taken for the Purpose of supplying the said Water-race.

(L.S.)

ONSLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation publicly notified and gazetted, declare any land therein specified, whether within or without or partly within and partly without a mining district, to be a water-race, and may declare any stream therein specified to be taken for the purpose of supplying a water-race: And whereas it is further enacted that the Minister shall cause a map of such water-race to be deposited in the Warden’s Court of the district in which such land is, and such map shall be referred to in and shall form part of any such Proclamation: And whereas for the purpose of supplying with water a portion of the mining district known as the Karamea Mining District, there has been partly constructed within such mining district a water-race called the Argyle-Charleston Water-race: Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the hereinbefore-recited Act, and of any other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands described in the First Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby declared to be a water-race, under the name of the Argyle-Charleston Water-race; and by the like authority I do hereby declare that the several streams specified in the Second Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby taken for the purpose of supplying the said Argyle-Charleston Water-race: as the said lands and streams are shown on a map marked P.W.D. 16529, deposited in the Warden’s Court, at Charleston, in the said Karamea Mining District.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 254 acres, more or less, being a strip of land 5 chains in width, viz., 2½ chains on each side of the centre line, shown by a full red line on the plan referred to below, situated in the Survey District of Waitakere, in the Provincial District of Nelson; commencing at a point on the Four-Mile River about 20 chains up the creek from the termination of the present county horse-track; proceeding thence generally in a north-westerly direction for a distance of about 6 miles 27 chains, and terminating at a point on, and distant about 5½ chains from, the head of the water-race known as the South Supply Race to Haines’s Dam, which said Haines’s Dam is one of the water-races jointly registered as No. 598, in the District of Charleston, in the Provincial District of Nelson, including that before-mentioned stream of water called the Four-Mile River, and including also all other streams and drainage-courses which cross the said strip of land; save and excepting any lands, mining-rights, or privileges already granted in connection with water-races or other mining purposes at the time of this Proclamation, and which are included within the above-mentioned area of 254 acres: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 16529, and deposited in the Warden’s Court, at Charleston, in the said Karamea Mining District.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

THE whole of the watershed of the Argyle Dam and tributaries flowing into the same, together with the watershed of the streams and feeders of the supply races; save and excepting any prior rights already granted and held at the date of this Proclamation: the said streams being shown on plans deposited as hereinaabove mentioned.

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 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 Auckland, this fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

Thos. FERGUS.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th April, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:-

Name. District.
GEORGE HENRY FRANK .. .. .. Kaikoura.
HENRY HOLDEN HALLIDAY .. .. Sanson.

T. W. HISLOP.

ERRATA.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 19, of the 10th April, 1890, page 390, Licensing Committees appointed, District of Courtenay, for “Thomas W. Anson,” read “Thomas W. Adams.” In same Gazette, page 395, Notice of Applications for Patents, for “No. 4211, No. 4212, No. 4213, No. 4215,” read “No. 4320, No. 4321, No. 4322, No. 4334.”