Num. 18. 331

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1891.

Chatham Islands excluded from Operation of Dog Registration Act.

(L.S.)
ONSLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Dog Registration Act, 1880,” it is among other things enacted that the Governor may by Proclamation exclude any portion of the colony from the operation of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient that the portion of the colony hereinafter mentioned should be excluded from the operation of the said Act:

Now therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by “The Dog Registration Act, 1880,” do hereby proclaim and declare that the portion of the colony known as the Chatham Islands, including all the islands forming the group usually so named, shall be and the same is hereby excluded from the operation of the said Act; and, in further pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I do hereby declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the first day of May next.

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 the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Marewhenua River, in the Provincial District of Otago, to be declared a Watercourse.

(L.S.)
ONSLOW, 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 watercourse hereinafter mentioned and its tributaries to be watercourses for the purposes of the said section mentioned:

And whereas no objection to the issue of this Proclamation has been transmitted to the Governor, and His Excellency has decided to exercise the powers conferred upon him by the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby proclaim and declare that the Marewhenua River and its tributaries, in the Provincial District of Otago, shall be watercourses into which tailings, mining débris, and waste water of every kind used in, upon, or discharged from any claim or licensed holding adjacent to such watercourse shall be suffered to flow or be discharged; and, with the like advice and consent, His Excellency doth hereby prescribe that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

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 Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

Approved in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!