Numb. 65.

Land available for Selection by the Midland Railway
Company set apart for Mining Purposes.

(L.S.)

ONSLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS in the contract bearing date the third day
of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
eight, made between Her Majesty the Queen and the New
Zealand Midland Railway Company (Limited), it is, among
other things, provided that, subject to the conditions therein
contained, all lands within the limits of the authorised area
defined in the said contract shall be available for selection
by the company, with certain exceptions: And whereas
among such exceptions are included all lands which from
time to time, in the opinion of the Governor, are or may be
required for bonâ fide mining purposes and the several pur-
poses connected therewith or incidental or conducive thereto,
and which lands shall from time to time be set apart and
defined by Proclamation to be issued in that behalf; but
no more than ten thousand acres shall be so set apart or
proclaimed in one block at any one time, and the lands so
set apart and proclaimed from time to time shall not, in the
aggregate, exceed seven hundred and fifty thousand acres:
And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, the lands
described in the Schedule hereto are required for bonâ fide
mining purposes and the several purposes connected there-
with, and the said lands are comprised in one block, con-
taining ten thousand acres: And whereas it is expedient
the said land should be set apart and defined by this Pro-
clamation:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of all powers and authorities enabling me in this
behalf under the hereinbefore-mentioned contract or other-
wise, do hereby proclaim and declare that the block of land
defined and described in the Schedule hereto is set apart
under the provisions of the said contract for bonâ fide mining
purposes and the several purposes connected therewith.

SCHEDULE.

BLOCK III., 8,250 acres, comprising the Kanieri, Hauhau,
and Bluespur Gold-diggings. Bounded towards the south-
east by a line bearing N. 41° 10' E., and commencing 58
chains distant from traverse tube lix., Kanieri Lake Road;
thence north-easterly through said traverse tube lix., 100
chains; thence north-westerly at a bearing of N. 48° 50' W.
a distance of about 344 chains; thence again towards the
south-east by a right line at right angles to the last men-
tioned line as far as Section No. 1948; thence by said Section
No. 1948 and Section No. 1943 to a point on the north-
western boundary-line of the latter section in line with the
north-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 1303; thence by
a right line to the easternmost corner of said Section No.
1303; thence towards the north-west generally by Sections
Nos. 1303, 1302, 1727, and 2129 to a point on the south-western
boundary-line of the latter section in line with the south-

1005

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1891.

eastern boundary-line of Section No. 1263; thence by a
right line to the easternmost corner of the latter section;
thence by the south-eastern boundary of said Section No.
1263 to the Paddock Road; thence by the Paddock Road
and the Kanieri and Hauhau Road to the Hokitika River;
thence generally towards the south-west by said river, the
Township of Kanieri, and the road forming the eastern
boundary of Sections Nos. 628 and 629 to the Kanieri River;
thence by the said Kanieri River to Section No. 1636; thence
by said Section No. 1636 and the road separating Sections
Nos. 1636 and 1531 to the Kanieri Lake Road; thence by
the said Kanieri Lake Road and a line bearing 131° 10' to
the starting-point: exclusive of sold lands and reserves.

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 Septem-
ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-one.

R. J. SEDDON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Setting apart Land in the Wellington Land District for
Leasing as a Small Grazing-run under "The Land
Act, 1885."

(L.S.)

ONSLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the one hundred and ninety-seventh
section of "The Land Act, 1885," and of every other power
and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, William
Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby declare that the land mentioned
in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of
sections one hundred and ninety-eight to two hundred and
nineteen of Part VII. of "The Land Act, 1885," relating to
small grazing-runs.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—OTARANOHO BLOCK.

ALL that parcel of land in the Land District of Wellington,
containing by admeasurement 1,336 acres, bounded on the
north by the Whaharangi Block; on the east by the