Numb. 38.

689

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 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 eight thousand eight 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.

Block LXXIV.: All that area in the Land District of Nelson, situated in the Mawheranui and Ahaura Survey Districts, and containing 8,800 acres, more or less. Bounded by a line commencing at the eastern corner of Section No. 71, Block IV., Ahaura Survey District; and proceeding thence along the southern bank of the River Ahaura to a point due east from the south-eastern corner of Section No. 2, Block V., Ahaura Survey District; thence along a right line drawn to a point on the eastern boundary of Block VIII., Mawheranui Survey District, distant one mile and a quarter north of the south-eastern corner of the same; thence along the eastern boundary of Block VIII. to the left-hand branch of Nelson Creek; thence along the northern bank of that branch and the northern bank of Nelson Creek to the eastern boundary of Section No. 27, Block VII.; thence along the eastern and northern boundaries of that section, and the northern boundary of Section No. 54, Square 123, and along a road forming the northern boundary of Sections Nos. 54 and 55, Square 123, to its junction with the Greymouth-Reefton Road; thence along the said road to the south-western boundary-line of Section No. 39, Square 123; thence along the south-western and south-eastern boundaries of that section, and the south-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 32, Block IV., Mawheranui Survey District, to the easternmost corner thereof; thence along a right line to the southernmost corner of Section No. 80, Block IV., Mawheranui Survey District; thence along the south-eastern boundary of Sections Nos. 80, 78, 76, 74, and 73, Block IV., Mawheranui Survey District, to the easternmost corner of the latter section; thence along a right line to the easternmost corner of Section No. 71, the place of commencement: excepting from the above-described area all freehold lands, leasehold lands, 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 fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Rural Land in the Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the third section of “The Land Act Amendment Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural land enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection, after the lapse of a period of not less than forty-five days from the date of the first public notification hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, in the manner and upon the conditions mentioned in the said Act, and at the price per acre stated in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Whangarei County.—Unsurveyed Land.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, situate in Blocks VII. and VIII., Opuawhanga Survey District, and containing approximately 4,300 acres. Bounded towards the north generally by Sections Nos. 17 and 4, Block