Num. 31.

597

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1892.

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

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

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 four thousand five hundred acres: And whereas it is expedient the said lands should be set apart and defined by this Proclamation:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government 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.

ALL that area in the Land District of Nelson, situated in the Mawheranui Survey District, and containing 4,500 acres, more or less. Bounded by a line commencing at the south-western corner of Section No. 107, Block X., and proceeding along the south-eastern and north-eastern boundaries of that section, the south-eastern and north-eastern boundaries of Section No. 100, Block X., to the Greymouth-Beefton Road; thence along that road to the western corner of Section No. 12, Block X.; thence along the south-western, south-eastern, and north-eastern boundaries of that section, and along the road reserve and the southern boundaries of Sections Nos. 13, 105a, and 105, Block X., and along the production of the southern boundary-line of Section No. 105 to the south bank of Ongonui or Twelve-mile Creek; thence along the southern bank of that creek to its intersection by a line bearing S. 64° W. to a point on the southern boundary of Block X. distant one mile and a half from the south-eastern corner of that block; thence along the said line to the point described; thence along the southern boundary-line of Block X. to the River Arnold; and thence along the eastern bank of that river to the place of commencement: excepting from the above-described area all freehold land, leasehold land, and reserves.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, the Administrator of the Government of Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Licensing Districts defined.

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the sixth section of “The Licensing Act, 1881,” it is enacted that the Governor shall from time to time define districts to be licensing districts under the said Act, and from time to time may alter and redefine the boundaries of the same:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, alter and redefine the boundaries of the Licensing District of Stoke, which shall, from and after the eighteenth day of April instant, be those described in the First Schedule hereto; and do hereby proclaim and define the part of the colony mentioned and described in the Second Schedule hereto to be, from and after the eighteenth day of April, an ordinary licensing district for the purposes of the said Act.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

STOKE LICENSING DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Land District of Nelson known as the Stoke (formerly Richmond) Road District, as described in special order in the New Zealand Gazette No. 1, 8th April, 1886, exclusive of any part of the Borough of Richmond.