Numb. 34.

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 two thousand five hundred and sixty 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 pro-
visions of the said contract for bonâ fide mining purposes
and the several purposes connected therewith.

SCHEDULE.
BLOCK XXX.
ALL that area in the Land District of Nelson, situated in
the Tutaki Survey District, containing 2,560 acres, more or
less, bounded by a line commencing at a point where the
southern boundary-line of Mining Reserve No. 8, as described
in the New Zealand Gazette No. 72, 28th September, 1893,
is intersected by the boundary-line between Sections 64
and 65, Square 138, and proceeding thence in a south-
easterly and southerly direction along a line running parallel
to the general course of Doughboy Creek, and distant from
the centre thereof about 40 chains, for a distance of about
4 miles; thence along a line at right angles to the last-
described boundary-line for a distance of about 80 chains;
thence northerly along a line running parallel to the general
course of Doughboy Creek, and distant from the centre
thereof about 40 chains, to the southern boundary-line of
the said Mining Reserve No. 8; and thence north-easterly

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 the Government
House, at Auckland, this seventh day of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-four.
A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Setting apart Land in Auckland for Leasing as Small
Grazing-runs under "The Land Act, 1892."

(L.S.)
GLASGOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the one hundred and seventy-second
section of "The Land Act, 1892," and of every other power
and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, David, Earl of
Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule
hereto shall be subject to the provisions of sections one
hundred and seventy-two to one hundred and eighty-six of
Part V. of "The Land Act, 1892," relating to small grazing-
runs.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.--EAST TAUPO COUNTY.

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 Auckland, this seventh day of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-four.
A. J. CADMAN,
For the Minister of Lands.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!