No. 92. 1563

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 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 three thousand acres: And whereas it is expedient the said land 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 LXXXV.: All that area in the Nelson Land District, situated in Cobden Survey District, containing 3,000 acres, more or less. Bounded by a line commencing at a point on the northern bank of the River Grey, being the northern en

of the Cobden Bridge, and proceeding along the said river to its mouth; thence northerly along the sea-coast to the mouth of the Seven-mile Creek; thence along the nearest leading spur to the summit of the Rapahoe Range; thence southerly along that range to the point 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 Christchurch, this seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

A. J. CADMAN,
For the Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of November, 1892.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR P. A. BUCKLEY, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor in Council by Hunia te Weu, the Native owner of the land described in the second column of the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of such land contained in the certificate of title, bearing date the twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, described in the first column of the said Schedule, may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has reported that the provisions of the law in that behalf have been complied with: And whereas it appears expedient to grant such application: