Num. 6.

125

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1898.

Abolishing and Constituting the Marlborough Mining District.

(L.S.)

RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Mining Act, 1891” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the Marlborough Mining District, as constituted by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 63, of the twenty-second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and I do hereby constitute and appoint in lieu thereof the portions of the colony particularly described in the Schedule hereto, which shall be designated the Marlborough Mining District; and I do hereby further proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect as from the tenth day of February next.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Marlborough bounded towards the north and west generally by the Provincial District of Nelson, from Tophouse to the Pelorus River, and by the left bank of that river to the waters of Pelorus Sound; thence by the waters of Pelorus Sound to the south-western boundary of Section No. 2, Ohingaroa Bay, Linkwater Survey District; thence by a right line to the south-western boundary-line of Section No. 152 of the said survey district, and by that boundary produced to Okiwa Bay; thence by the waters of Queen Charlotte Sound to Reserve D, Town of Picton, and by that reserve to Wellington Street; thence by Wellington Street and London Quay to the Picton and Blenheim Railway-line; thence by that line to the Wairau River; and thence by that river to the commencing-point: excepting from the above area Section No. 1, Block XIV., Linkwater Survey District, and Sections Nos. 1 to 33, inclusive, Block X., Wakamarina Survey District, within the aforesaid boundaries.

Also all that area in the Provincial District of Marlborough bounded towards the north and north-west by Port Gore, from the north-eastern corner of Section No. 3, Block XII., Gore Survey District, to Cape Jackson; thence towards the south-east generally by Queen Charlotte Sound to Section No. 111, Linkwater Survey District, in Torea Moua Bay; thence again towards the north-west by said Section No. 111; again towards the north and towards the west by Section No. 93, Linkwater Survey District, to the summit of the watershed between Kenepuru Sound and Queen Charlotte Sound; thence again towards the north-west by the summit of the said watershed and the summit of the watershed between Pelorus Sound and Queen Charlotte Sound, over Mount Stokes, to a line joining the north-eastern corner of said Section No. 3 and the north-eastern corner of Section No. 50, Block VIII., Gore Survey District; and thence again towards the north by that line to Port Gore, the place of commencement.

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 Queenstown, this eighteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Native Land off East Cape to be taken for a Lighthouse, and other Works in Connection therewith, being the Island of Whangaokeno, or East Island, in the Provincial District of Auckland.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of December, 1897.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work, to wit, the construction of a lighthouse, and other works in connection therewith, on the island known as Whangaokeno, or East Island, in the Provincial District of Auckland:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners, and the title thereto is not derived from the Crown: And whereas a map of the said land has been prepared in duplicate, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the said Act, and of all other powers in any wise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purposes of the public work hereinbefore mentioned; and the said land shall vest in Her Majesty the Queen as from the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

ERRATUM.—In the Warrant of the 27th December, 1897, making regulations for New Zealand forests, published in New Zealand Gazette No. 3, of 13th January, 1898, page 55, for the first paragraph of the regulations, read “‘Forest’ in these regulations means any Crown land on which forest trees are growing, other than a State forest or forest reserve subject to the provisions of ‘The New Zealand State Forests Act, 1885.’”

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