Numb. 66.

1017

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1891.

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 purposes 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 therewith, and the said lands are comprised in one block, containing ten thousand acres: And whereas it is expedient the said land should be set apart and defined by this Proclamation:

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 otherwise, 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 IV., 5,700 acres, more or less, comprising the Woodstock, Eight-mile, Rimu, and Back Lead Diggings; commencing at a point on the Borough Road east on a bearing of 157° 20′ from Trig. Station EM; thence by a right line on the same bearing to the eastern boundary of the Mahinapua Survey District; thence due south by the aforesaid eastern boundary to the HD Road; thence towards the south-east by a right line to a point 500 chains distant from Trig. Station EM on a bearing of S. 22° 40′ E. from that trig. station; and thence by a right line bearing N. 22° 40′ E. to the Hokitika River; towards the north-east by the said Hokitika River to a Native reserve; thence towards the north-west, again towards the north-east, and again towards the north-west by said Native reserve to Section No. 8238; thence again towards the north-east by said Section No. 8238; and again towards the north-west by Borough Road E: 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 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 fourteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

R. J. SEDDON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Mangapiko Recreation-ground brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of September, 1891.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order and declare that the reserve made for public recreation in the Land District of Auckland, and known as the Mangapiko Recreation-ground, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881;” and such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.

ERRATUM.—In warrants of reservation, New Zealand Gazettes No. 39, of the 28th May, 1891, page 591, and No. 57, of the 6th August, 1891, for “Section 4, Block VII., Pohangina,” reserved for a gravel-pit, read “Section 4A, Block VII., Pohangina.”