Num. 23.

451

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1894.

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 pur-
poses 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 there-
with, and the said lands are comprised in one block, con-
taining eight thousand three hundred and twenty 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 XXVIII.

ALL that area in the Land District of Nelson, situated in
the Rahu and Lewis Survey Districts respectively, containing
8,320 acres, more or less. Bounded by a line commencing
at a point on the southern boundary of Block IV., Rahu
District, due east, and distant 50 chains from the south-
western corner of the said block; and proceeding thence in
a southerly direction along a line running parallel to the
general course of the River Maruia, and distant from the
centre thereof about 40 chains for a distance of about 13 miles;
thence along a line at right angles to the last described
boundary in a south-westerly direction for a distance of

about 80 chains; thence in a north-westerly and northerly
direction along a line running parallel to the general course
of the River Maruia, and distant from the centre thereof
about 40 chains, to the southern boundary-line of Block III.,
Rahu District; and thence due east along that boundary-
line to the point of commencement: excepting from the
above-described area all freehold and leasehold lands 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 Auckland, this
nineteenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Terms and Conditions of Lease of Village Homesteads in
the Paa Creek Village Settlement, Wellington.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

As the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighth
day of March, 1894.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-ninth section
of "The Land Act, 1892," it is enacted that the
Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon
which the lands in any village settlement shall be disposed
of, subject as in the said section is provided: And whereas
by a Proclamation made under the said Act on the eighth
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the fifteenth
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
four, the lands described in the First Schedule hereto have
been set apart under the said Act and declared open for lease
as village settlements, and it is expedient to fix the terms
and conditions upon which the said lands shall be disposed
of:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred by the said Act, and by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, doth hereby fix the terms and conditions on which