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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1891.

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

(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
watercourses hereinafter mentioned and their tributaries to
be watercourses for the purposes of the said section men-
tioned:

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 pro-
claim 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 first day of
February, 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 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 the Government House, at
Wellington, this second day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and ninety.

FRED. WHITAKER,
Acting Minister of Mines.

Approved in Council.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Resuming Possession of Part of Section 52, Block IV., Kaupokonui Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the one hundred and fifty-
eighth section of "The Land Act, 1885," I, William Hillier,
Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
do hereby resume possession of the land described in the
Schedule hereto, for the purpose of a road.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Land District of Taranaki, containing
by admeasurement 44 acres 2 roods 2 perches, more or less,
being portion of Section No. 52, Block IV., Kaupokonui
Survey District. Bounded towards the north by other por-
tion of the said Section No. 52, 8529·4 links; towards the
east by a road, 1674 links; towards the south by the Patea
River; and towards the west by the Mount Egmont Forest
Reserve, 584·4 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or
less; as the same is more particularly delineated on the
plan marked S.G. 12328, deposited in the General Survey
Office, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Welling-
ton, and thereon bordered red.

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