Numb. 64.

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1896.

Amended Description of Hauraki Mining District so as to include the Great Barrier Island.

(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 the Proclamation constituting the Hauraki Mining District, published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 66, of the fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, 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 Hauraki 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 first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH ISLAND.—HAURAKI MINING DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, bounded towards the north-east generally by the sea and Tauranga Harbour, from Cape Colville to the Kaituna River; thence by the estuary of that river towards the south-east, by the road from Maketu to Rotorua to a point where a line drawn from Trig. Station No. 27 (Puwhenua) over the trig. station on Te Taheke intersects the said road; thence towards the south-west by a right line over the said Te Taheke Trig. Station to the said Trig. Station No. 27 (Puwhenua), thence by a right line to Weraiti Trig. Station; thence towards the south and south-west by Okauia No. 1B Block; and again towards the south-west generally by the left bank of the Waihou or Thames River, the Firth of Thames, and the Hauraki Gulf to Cape Colville, the place of commencement: save and excepting Sections Nos. 11 and 18, Block I.; Section No. 19, Block VII.; Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 20 and 26, Block XI.; Sections Nos. 12, 13, 15, 16, and 22, Block XV., Hastings Survey District: comprising an area of 3,295 acres.

Also all that area known as the Great Barrier Island.

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 issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

A. J. CADMAN,

Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Amended Description of Otago 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 the Proclamation constituting the Otago Mining District, published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 29, of the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-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 Otago 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 first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO MINING DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District bounded towards the north by the Canterbury Land District, from Big Bay, on the west coast, to a point due north of Mount St. Bathan's; towards the east by a straight line to that mountain; thence again towards the north by a straight line due east to the summit of the Hawkdun Mountains; towards the north-east by the summit of the said Hawkdun Mountains to Mount Ida; thence towards the north-west by a straight line to Kurow Mountain; thence by a straight line to the source of the Little Awakino Stream, and by that stream to the Waitaki River; again towards the north-east by the Waitaki River to the western boundary of the area formerly known as Awamoko Hundred; thence again towards the east by the said area formerly known as Awamoko Hundred to the area formerly known as Kakanui Hundred; towards the south and again towards the east by the said area formerly known as Kakanui Hundred to its south-western corner; again towards the south by a line due west to a point due north of Scout Hill; thence again towards the east by a straight line through Scout Hill to a point due west of Trig. Station D (Mount Difficulty), Kauroo Survey District; thence again towards the north by a straight line through the said Trig. Station D to a point due north of the north-eastern corner of Section No. 2, Block VI., Kauroo Survey District aforesaid; again towards the east by a straight line to the said corner; again towards the south and east by Section No. 2 aforesaid to Section No. 7 of the said Block VI.; thence again towards the south and west, and again towards the south and east, by the said Section No. 7 to Section No. 5, Block XV., Otepopo Survey District; thence again towards the east, north-east, north-west, and south-west by the said Section No. 5 to Section No. 7 aforesaid; thence again towards the north by Section No. 7 aforesaid to Section No. 9, Block XV., Otepopo Survey District.