Numb. 88.
1757

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1894.

Duffer's Creek, in the Provincial District of Westland,
declared to be a Watercourse.

(L.S.) GLASGOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by the one hundred and fifty-second sec-
tion of "The Mining Act, 1891" (hereinafter termed
"the said Act"), it is enacted that the Governor in Council
may from time to time, by Proclamation published in the
Gazette, proclaim and declare that any watercourse shall be
a watercourse into which tailings, mining débris, and waste
water of any kind used in, upon, or discharged from any
claim or licensed holding shall be suffered to flow or be dis-
charged:
And whereas not less than ninety days' notice has been
published, in the manner provided by the said section, that
application has been made to the Governor to proclaim the
watercourse hereinafter mentioned and its tributaries to be
watercourses for the purposes of the said section mentioned:
And whereas no objection to the issue of this Proclamation
has been transmitted to the Governor, and His Excellency
has decided to exercise the powers conferred upon him by
the said Act:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Right Honourable
David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act,
and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Ex-
ecutive Council of the said colony, doth hereby proclaim and
declare that Duffer's Creek and its tributaries, in the Pro-
vincial District of Westland, shall be watercourses into which
tailings, mining débris, and waste water of every kind used
in, upon, or discharged from any claim or licensed holding
adjacent to such watercourse shall be suffered to flow or be
discharged; and, with the like advice and consent, His
Excellency doth hereby prescribe that this Proclamation
shall take effect on and after the eighteenth day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.
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-ninth day of
November, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-four.
A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.
Approved in Council.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
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 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 bona fide
mining purposes and the several purposes connected there-
with, and the said lands are comprised in one block, con-
taining 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 pro-
visions of the said contract for bona fide mining purposes
and the several purposes connected therewith.

SCHEDULE.
BLOCK NO. LXXX.
ALL that area in the Land District of Nelson, situated in the
Mawheranui Survey District, containing 10,000 acres, more
or less. Bounded by a line commencing at a point on the
southern boundary-line of Block X., Mawheranui Survey
District, distant one mile and a half from its south-eastern
corner, and proceeding thence along a right line bearing
N. 64° E. for a distance of four miles fifteen chains; thence
along a right line drawn to intersect another right line con-
ecting Trig. Stations A R (Mawheranui) and L H (Ahaura)
at a point distant three miles and a half from the former
trig. station; thence along a right line to the said Trig.