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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 46

of the powers and authorities in me vested by the said
Act, and of every other power and authority in anywise
enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge
mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and known as the Ashley
Gorge Bridge, shall, from and after the date of this Proclamation, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Oxford Road Board; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the powers aforesaid, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge is to be provided and paid by the local authorities hereinafter mentioned in the following proportions: namely, Ashley Road Board, fifty per centum, and Oxford Road Board, fifty per centum. And I do also hereby direct that the contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Ashley Road Board towards the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge shall be paid from time to time, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, by the Ashley Road Board, out of the Road Board Fund of the said Ashley Road Board, within a period of ten days after a demand in writing, made by or on behalf of the Oxford Road Board, stating the amount so required to be paid and the purpose for which it is so required, shall have been left at the office of the Ashley Road Board; and the payments so to be made shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Oxford Road Board for and on behalf of the Oxford Road Board.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Ashley River, known as the Ashley Gorge Bridge, situated on the line of road leading from Oxford to Glentui, and known as the Ashley Gorge Road, in the County of Ashley, in the Canterbury Land District; as the position of the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 21847, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon marked in red.

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 Wellington, this eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

JOHN McKENZIE,

Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Museum Endowment, Silver Peak District. - Provisions of "The Mining Act, 1891," relating to Mining Districts and Wardens' Courts, with certain Exceptions, brought into Operation.

(L.s.)

GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by section two hundred of "The Mining Act, 1891" (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby proclaim and declare that all the provisions of the said Act relating to mining districts and to Wardens' Courts shall have operation within the land described in the Schedule hereto, excepting sections two hundred and twenty to two hundred and thirty-one inclusive of the said Act, and Part III. of the regulations made thereunder, and issued on the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 8,320 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks VI. and VIII., Silver Peak Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east generally by Orbell's Creek and Section 1, Block VII.; towards the south by Section 1, Block V., and Section 1, Block IV.; towards the south-east by Sweetwater Creek; and towards the west and north-west by the Taieri River and Three-o'clock Creek.

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 eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

A. J. CADMAN,

Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Amended Description of Westland Mining District.

(L.s.)

GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by "The Mining Act, 1891" (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke, so far as it relates to the Westland Mining District, the Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 66, of the twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, and in lieu thereof do hereby proclaim and declare that the portion of the colony particularly described in the Schedule hereto shall be the Mining District of Westland under the said Act, with the boundaries in the said Schedule mentioned; and I do hereby further proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect as from the fifteenth day of July next.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND MINING DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Land Districts of Nelson, Westland, and Canterbury bounded towards the north-west and north-east generally by the Counties of Buller and Waimea, from the mouth of Razorback Creek to the confluence of the Hope and the Buller Rivers; thence towards the east by a straight line across the said Buller River to the foot of the range between the Gowan and the Howard Rivers, thence by the summit of that range and the summit of the range between the Sabine River and the Rotoiti River to Mount Mackay; towards the south-east generally by the Amuri County and the Land District of Canterbury to the eastern boundary-line of the Davie Survey District, thence by that boundary-line and the northern boundary-line of Wilberforce Survey District to Griffith's Creek, thence by a right line to Mount Park, thence by the summit of the range and again by the Land District of Canterbury to Mount Aspiring; towards the south-west by the Land District of Otago; and towards the north-west by the ocean to the place of commencement.

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 Wellington, this eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

A. J. CADMAN,

Minister of Mines.

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 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 eight hundred 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.