Number 52.

883

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1892.

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

(L.S.) GLASGOW, 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 lands should be set apart and defined by this Proclamation:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, 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 LIX.: All that area in the Nelson Land District, situated in the Reefton and Waitahu Survey Districts, containing 10,000 acres, more or less. Bounded by a line commencing on the left bank of the Inangahua River, at a point due south of the southern corner of Section No. 214A, Square 131, Block XIV., Reefton Survey District, and proceeding along the left bank of the Inangahua River to a right line drawn between Trig. Station N, Reefton Survey District, and Trig. Station A, Waitahu Survey District; thence by the said line to the latter trig. station; thence by a right line to Trig. Station K, Waitahu Survey District; thence by a right line to the north-western corner of the Waitahu Survey District; thence by the northern boundary of the Mawheraiti Survey District to the road leading from Reefton to Greymouth; thence by that road to the road between Section No. 3, Block XIII., Reefton Survey District, and Section No. 155, Square 131, Block XIII.; thence by the latter road to the northern corner of Section No. 25, Block XIII.; thence by a line to the place of commencement: excepting from the above-described area all freehold and leasehold sections and reserves.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; 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 twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Districts constituted under “The Marriage Act, 1880.”

(L.S.) GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in the Governor by “The Marriage Act, 1880,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing marriage districts known as the Palmerston North and Foxton Districts, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said districts is hereby divided anew into two marriage districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follow:—

PALMERSTON NORTH DISTRICT.

All that area in the Land District of Wellington bounded towards the north by the Feilding Special-settlement Association’s Block, in the Apiti Survey District, and by the southern boundary-line of that block produced to the summit of the Ruahine Range; thence towards the south-east by the summit of that range to the Manawatu Gorge; thence by a line across the Manawatu River to the summit of the Tararua Range; and thence by the summit of that range to a point due east of the north-eastern corner of Section No. 2, Block IV., Waiopenu Survey District; thence towards the south by a right line to the said corner; thence