Num. 19. 361

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1891.

Rivers and their Tributaries in the Provincial District of Westland to be declared Watercourses.

(L.S.)

ONSLLOW, 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 watercourses hereinafter mentioned and their 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 watercourses in the Provincial District of Westland mentioned in the Schedule hereto 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 watercourses 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.

SCHEDULE.

1. THAT river known as the Hokitika River, which flows generally north-westerly, from its source in the Southern Alps, for a distance of about forty-three miles, to the ocean; and also the several tributaries thereof.

2. That river known as the Totara River, which flows generally north-westerly, from its source near Bald Hill, for a distance of about seventeen miles, to the ocean; and also the several tributaries thereof.

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 sixth day of March, 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!

Rivers and their Tributaries in the Provincial District of Westland to be declared Watercourses.

(L.S.)

ONSLLOW, 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 watercourses hereinafter mentioned and their tributaries to be watercourses for the purposes in 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 watercourses in the Provincial District of Westland mentioned in the Schedule hereto 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 watercourses