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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 30

towards the north-east by a public drain, 1250 links; towards
the south-east by Smith’s Road, 2925 links; and towards
the south-west generally by a right line, 370 links, and by
road-lines, 500 links and 880 links respectively: as the said
area is delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 19206, de-
posited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and
Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District,
and thereon edged with red.

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; Go-
vernor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its De-
pendencies; and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House, at Auckland,
this twenty-ninth day of March, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-nine.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Amended Description of Otago Mining District.

(L.s.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by “The Mining Act, 1898” (hereinafter
termed “the said Act”), I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of
Ranfurly, 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. 28, of the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-eight, and in lieu thereof do hereby
proclaim and declare that the portion of the colony parti-
cularly 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 twenty-first day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-nine.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO MINING DISTRICT.

Amended Boundaries.

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 ;
then 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 ; then towards the north-west by a straight
line to Kurow Mountain ; then 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 Wai-
taki River to the western boundary of the area formerly known
as Awamoko Hundred ; then 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 ; then 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 ; then 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 afore-
said ; 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. ;
then 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 ; then
again towards the east, north-east, north-west, and south-
west by the said Section No. 5 to Section No. 7 aforesaid ;
then again towards the north by Section No. 7 afore-
said to Section No. 9, Block XV., Otepopo Survey District ;
then again towards the east and north by the said Section
No. 9 to Section No. 2 of the said Block XV. ; then again
towards the east and north by the said Section No. 2 to its
south-eastern corner ; then 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 ; then again towards the south by a straight
line through the said Trig. Station P to the summit of the
Kakanui Mountains ; then again towards the north-east
by the summit of the Kakanui Mountains to Run No. 109 ;
then again towards the north-west by Run No. 217B to
Run No. 209 ; then again towards the east generally by
the said Run No. 209 and Run No. 11 to a stream forming
the south-eastern boundary of Run No. 109 aforesaid ; then
towards the south-east by that stream to the south branch
of the Waianakarua River ; then again towards the south-
west by the south branch of the Waianakarua River afore-
said to a point in line with the north-west boundary-
line of the Moeraki Hundred ; then again towards the
south-east by a straight line to and then by the
said Moeraki Hundred to the Waihemo or Shag River ;
then again towards the north-east by the left bank of the
said Waihemo or Shag River to a point in line with the north-
western boundary-line of the area formerly known as Hawks-
bury Hundred ; then again towards the south-east by a
straight line across the Waihemo or Shag River aforesaid,
and by the said area formerly known as Hawksbury Hun-
dred, to the south-western corner of Section No. 11, Block I.,
Dunback Survey District ; then again towards the north by
the said Section No. 11 and Section No. 6 of the said
Block I. ; again towards the east by the Moeraki Survey Dis-
trict ; again towards the south by Sections Nos. 3, 4, and 5
of Block I. aforesaid to the north-western corner of the last-
mentioned section ; then again towards the south-east by
the area formerly known as Hawksbury Hundred aforesaid
to the north branch of the Waikouaiti River ; then by the
said north branch and the south branch of the Waikouaiti
River to a point in line with the northern boundary-line of
Section No. 4, Block IX., Waikouaiti Survey District ; then
by a right line to the north-western corner of said Section
No. 4 ; then by that section, by Sections Nos. 2 and 3, said
Block IX., and Sections Nos. 2, 4, and 5, Block XI., to the
south-western corner of the last-mentioned section ; then
again towards the south by a right line through Trig. Station
U, Waikouaiti Survey District, to the right bank of the
Silverstream ; then again towards the south-east by the
said Silverstream to the area formerly known as the East
Taieri Hundred ; then again towards the south by the said
area formerly known as the East Taieri Hundred to Block II.,
Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District ; then again
towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 9, 8, 7, and 6, Block
III., Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District, and a road ;
then again towards the south-west by Section No. 38, a
road, 1 of 28, 2 of 28, 27, 26, a road, and Section No. 5, and
a road, all of Block II. aforesaid, and by Sections Nos. 21, 20,
2 of 18, and 17, Block I., Dunedin and East Taieri Survey
District, to the Taieri River ; then again towards the south-
east by the left bank of that river to the road which forms
the north-eastern boundaries of River Sections Nos. 49, 48,
47, and 46 : then again towards the north-east generally
by that road and the road forming the north-eastern bound-
aries of River Sections Nos. 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, and
38 ; by the road forming the north-western boundaries of
River Sections Nos. 37 and 36, the road forming the north-
eastern boundaries of River Sections Nos. 36, 35, 34, and
33 ; by the road forming the north-western boundaries of
Sections Nos. 16, 15, 14, and 13, Block XX., Taieri Survey
District ; by Sections Nos. 12 and 2 of said Block XX., across
the railway-line, and by Section No. 11, Irregular Block ; by
a road forming the south-eastern boundaries of Sections
Nos. 11 and 12, Irregular Block ; by Section No. 41, Irregu-
lar Block, and by Block VIII., Dunedin and East Taieri
Survey District, to the sea : then again towards the south-
east by the sea to a point in line with the north-eastern side
of the road forming the south-western boundary of Section
No. 9, Block XIV., Coast Survey District : then again
towards the south-west generally by a right line to the
southernmost corner of Section No. 9 of the said Block XIV. ;
then by the said road to Block IV., Kaitangata Survey
District ; then by Block IV., Kaitangata Survey District,
to the road forming the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 1
of 20 and 2 of 20 ; then by that road to a point in line
with the north-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 2 of 20 ;
then by a right line to the easternmost corner of the said
Section No. 2 of 20 ; then by Sections Nos. 2 of 20, 1 of 20,
21, and 17, Block IV. aforesaid ; by the road forming the
south-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 10 and 9, Block I. ;
then by that road to a point in line with the north-eastern
boundary-line of the last-mentioned section ; then by a
right line to the easternmost corner of Section No. 9 afore-
said ; then by Sections Nos. 9, 8, 5, and 18, Block I. afore-
said, to the road forming the south-eastern boundary of Sec-
tion No. 2 of 20, said Block I., Kaitangata Survey District ;
then by that road and by part of the road forming the
north-eastern boundary of the last-mentioned section ; by
Sections Nos. 7, 8, and 9, Block XXVIII., Tokomairiro Sur-
vey District ; by a road, and Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 11, 10, 9,
and 8, Block XXXI., Tokomairiro Survey District ; by a
road and Sections Nos. 12 and 1, Block XXXIV. ; by a road
and Sections Nos. 2 of 12, a road, 1 of 12 and 1, Block
XXXIII. ; by a closed road and Sections Nos. 12 and 1,
Block XL. ; and by Block XLIII., all of Tokomairiro
Survey District ; again towards the south-east by the