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.
ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, situated in the
Waitahu Survey District, containing 10,000 acres, more or
less. Bounded by a right line commencing at the southern
angle of Mining Reserve No. 59, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 52, 30th June, 1892 (being Trig. Station A,
Waitahu District), and proceeding thence north-easterly
along the south-eastern boundary-line of the said reserve to
the River Inangahua; thence in a south-easterly direction
along the left bank of that river to its intersection by a right
line drawn from Trig. Station H (Waitahu) to Trig. Station F (Waitahu); thence in a south-westerly direction
along that line to a point distant one mile from Trig. Station H; and thence along a right line to the point of com-
mencement: 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 fourteenth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-four.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land set apart for Village Settlements in the Wellington
Land District.

GLASGOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon
me by the one hundred and sixty-eighth section of "The
Land Act, 1892," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the allotments of Crown land respectively described in
the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby set
apart and declared open for lease as village settlements.