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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

That creek known as Waimea Creek, which flows northerly and easterly from its source in the range between the Rivers Buller and Okari until it discharges into the Buller River at the foot of the Snag Falls; and also the several tributaries thereof.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Approved in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Lands taken for Road from Victoria Valley to Main Road, Takahue and Maungataniwha Survey Districts.

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

(l.s.) JAMES PRENDERGAST.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” for a certain work, to wit, the construction of a portion of a road in the Mount Cerberus Survey District known as the road from Victoria Valley to Main Road:

And whereas a plan has been prepared, and the Minister has recommended the Governor to issue a Proclamation taking the land as required by the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, 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 lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are hereby taken for the purposes of the construction of the said road.

SCHEDULE.

The parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Auckland Land District; as the said areas are delineated upon the plan marked as above stated, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Amended Description of Otago Mining District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

(l.s.) JAMES PRENDERGAST.

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, James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, in the name and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, and as his duly appointed Deputy, do hereby revoke the Proclamation constituting the Otago Mining District, published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 15, of the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, 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 fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

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 from that mountain; thence again towards the north by a straight line due east to the summit of the Hawkdon Mountains; towards the north-east by the summit of the said Hawkdon 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; thence again towards the east and north by the said Section No. 9 to Section No. 2 of the said Block XV.; thence again towards the east and north by the said Section No. 2 to its south-eastern corner; thence again towards the east by Sections Nos. 1, 8, 7, 6, and 3 of Block XV. aforesaid to Section No. 4; again towards the south and east by the said Section No. 4 to a point due east of Trig. Station P, Otepopo Survey District; thence again towards the south by a straight line through the said Trig. Station P to the summit of the Kakanui Mountains; thence again towards the north-east