Num. 10.

231

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1895.

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. LXIII.

ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, situated in the
Waitahu and Mawhera-iti Survey Districts, containing 10,000
acres, more or less, and described as follows: Bounded by a
right line commencing at a point on the northern bank of Big
River due north of the north-eastern corner of Section 5,
Block VIII., Mawhera-iti Survey District, and proceeding
thence north-easterly along the south-eastern boundary-line
of Mining Reserve No. 62, as described in New Zealand
Gazette No. 48, 16th June, 1892, to Trig. Station K (Waitahu);
thence south-easterly along the south-western boundary-line
of Mining Reserve No. 59, as described in the New Zealand
Gazette No. 52, 30th June, 1892, to Trig. Station A (Waitahu);
thence in a south-westerly direction to Trig. Station J (Wai-
tahu); thence north-westerly along a right 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
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-four.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclaiming Closing of Roads through Private Lands in
Opaheke Road District.

(L.S.)
GLASGOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by
section thirteen of "The Land Act, 1892," I, David,
Earl of Glasgow, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
with the consent of the owner of the lands hereinafter men-
tioned, and with the consent of the Opaheke Road Board,
being the local authority in whose district the said lands are
situated, do by this notice hereby proclaim as closed the roads
in Opaheke Road District hereinafter described, that is to
say:—

All those parcels of land in the Auckland Land District,
containing by admeasurement 6 acres and 8 perches, and 2
acres 1 rood 24 perches respectively, more or less, situate in
the Parish of Otah, in the Opaheke Road District, and being
road-lines, each 100 links wide, traversing Section No. 71, and
described as follows: viz., All that parcel of land, being a
road containing 6 acres and 8 perches, more or less, the centre-

ERRATA.—In the warrant changing the purpose of a reserve at Kaponga, published in the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 94, of the 21st December, 1894, page 1952, fourth line of Schedule, for "Sections 24 and 25" read "Sections 24
and 26"; and for "1893," in the last line, read "1883."

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