District. Section. Block. Area. HOMEVIEW VILLAGE. Mackenzie Suburbs 1 10 0 0 2 10 0 0 3 10 0 0 4 10 0 0 5 10 0 0 6 10 0 0 7 10 0 0 8 10 0 0 9 10 0 0 10 10 0 0 11 10 0 0 12 10 0 0 13 10 0 0 14 4 2 0 15 4 2 0 16 5 0 0 17 5 0 0 18 5 0 0 19 5 0 0 20 5 0 0 21 10 0 0 22 10 0 0 23 16 0 0 24 16 0 0 25 10 0 0 26 5 0 0 27 5 0 0 28 5 0 0 29 5 0 0 30 5 0 0 31 5 0 0 32 10 0 0 33 10 0 0 34 10 0 0 35 10 0 0 36 5 0 0 37 5 0 0 38 5 0 0 39 5 0 0 Cheviot 5 VII. 40 0 0 6 40 0 0 7 50 0 0 8 50 0 0 PORT ROBINSON VILLAGE. Cheviot 4 XI. 23 0 0 9 53 0 0 12 35 0 0 14 32 0 0 DOMETT VILLAGE. Lowry Peaks 20 XVI. 54 0 0 21 50 0 0 22 50 0 0 23 75 0 0 24 50 0 0 25 57 0 0 26 53 0 0 27 33 0 0 28 40 0 0 29 27 0 0 2 XIX. 14 0 0 3 27 0 0 4 77 0 0 Lowry Peaks 23 XII. 50 0 0 24 40 0 0 25 40 0 0 10 XVI. 50 0 0 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 seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three. JOHN McKENZIE, Minister of Lands. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! Local Land District constituted. (L.S.) GLASGOW, Governor. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by the twenty-third section of "The Land Act, 1892," it is enacted that the Governor, by Proclamation in the Gazette, may from time to time establish and define, abolish, alter, or reconstitute local districts for the sale or disposal of land, and in like manner from time to time may appoint Land Offices and Land Officers or other persons for conducting sales of land in such local districts, and for receiving applications for the sale, letting, disposal, or occupation of Crown lands, and for generally carrying into effect the provisions of the said Act: Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the district described in the Schedule hereto is established, defined, and constituted a local district for the sale and disposal of land under the said Act; and that the Land Office the name of which is in the said Schedule set opposite the name of the said local district is appointed the Land Office for the said local district. SCHEDULE. Name and Description of Local District. Name of Land Office. CHEVIOT LOCAL LAND DISTRICT. ALL that portion of the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 85,361 acres (more or less). Bounded towards the north generally by the Waiau-ua River from Section No. 200, Lowry Peaks Survey District, to a point in line with the eastern boundary-line of Section No. 1, Cheviot Survey District, thence to and by that section and by Sections Nos. 2 and 39, and again by the Waiau-ua River; towards the east by the sea; towards the south by the Hurunui River; and towards the west generally by the Kaiwara River and Sections Nos. 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81A, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, and 200, Lowry Peaks Survey District. The Land Office, Cheviot. 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 tenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three. JOHN McKENZIE, Minister of Lands. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! 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 bona 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 bona fide mining purposes and the several purposes connected therewith, and the said lands are comprised in one block, containing nine thousand eight hundred acres: And whereas it is expedient the said land should be set apart and defined by this Proclamation: