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 ten 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 bona fide mining purposes and the several purposes connected therewith.

SCHEDULE.

Block No. LXXIX.

All that area in the Land District of Nelson, situated in the Survey Districts of Mawheranui and Ahaura, containing 10,000 acres, more or less. Bounded by a line commencing at a point on the southern boundary-line of Block VIII., Mawheranui Survey District, distant one mile and a quarter from its south-western corner, and proceeding thence along a right line drawn to a point on another right line connecting Trig. Stations L H (Ahaura) and A R (Mawheranui), distant two miles fifty-three chains south-west from the former trig. station; thence along the last-mentioned line in a southwesterly direction for a distance of three miles and a half; thence along a line drawn to a point on the south-eastern boundary-line of Mining Reserve No. 77, as described in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 33, 21st April,

1892, bearing (from the point of commencement hereof) S. 59° W., and distant therefrom two miles and a half; and thence along the said south-eastern boundary-line 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 the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

A. J. CADMAN,

Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for a Road in Akaroa and Wainui Road District.

(L.S.)

GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under "The Public Works Act, 1894," for a certain work, to wit, the construction of a road in Akaroa and Wainui Road District:

And whereas the Akaroa and Wainui Road Board has laid before the Governor a memorial, accompanied by a map, and also the statutory declaration, required by the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by "The Public Works Act, 1894," and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of the construction of the said road.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder: