Num. 5. 109

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1902.

Notice determining a Coal Lease.

To the Greymouth–Point Elizabeth Railway and Coal Company (Limited).

In the matter of a coal-mining lease dated the 25th day of September, 1888, granted by Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, of the one part, to William Simpson Smith, of Amberley, Canterbury, New Zealand, Merchant, of the other part; and of an assignment of such lease dated the 23rd day of April, 1897, from the said William Simpson Smith to the Greymouth–Point Elizabeth Railway and Coal Company (Limited), and comprising the parcel of land shortly described in the Schedule hereto.

TAKE notice that, as you have failed to pay the rents and royalties reserved by the said lease as and when the same respectively became due and payable, and such rents and royalties are now unpaid for the space of forty-two days and more (no rents or royalty having been paid since the 31st day of December, 1897), and as you have also failed to raise or to get any coal from the said lands, and generally have failed to perform or observe the several covenants and conditions to be performed by the lessee under the said lease and the assignment thereof, as modified in the terms of the memorandum attached to the said assignment, and signed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Nelson, on the 6th day of May, 1897, and consented to by the Hon. the Minister of Mines, after notice in writing to perform, fulfil, or observe the same within twenty-one days from the date of the service thereof, and which said notice was served by delivering the same to Alexander Macdougall, Managing Director, personally, on the 20th day of December, 1901, I, Thomas Young Duncan, the Minister of Lands for the time being of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke, countermand, and determine the said deed of lease, and the several liberties, licenses, powers, and authorities thereby given or granted to you the said company, or intended so to be, or by the said assignment respectively.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of January, 1902.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Signed by the said Thomas Young Duncan, Minister of Lands for the Colony of New Zealand, in the presence of—
J. W. A. Marchant, Surveyor-General, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 1,280 acres, more or less, situated in the Grey District, in the Provincial District of Nelson, being Section No. 25 on Square 124 on the plan of the said Provincial District of Nelson. Bounded on the northward, 16507 links, by Section No. 26 on the said square; on the eastward, 7400 links, by Crown land; on the southward, 18000 links, by Crown land; and on the westward by a public road reserve, varying from 400 links to 700 links in width, along the shore of the Pacific Ocean.

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Notice determining a Coal Lease.

To the Greymouth–Point Elizabeth Railway and Coal Company (Limited).

In the matter of a coal-mining lease dated the 10th day of October, 1889, granted by Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, of the one part, to Francis Hamilton, of Nelson, New Zealand, and William Simpson Smith, of Amberley, Canterbury, New Zealand, Merchants, of the other part; and of an assignment of such lease dated the 23rd day of April, 1897, from the said Francis Hamilton and William Simpson Smith to the Greymouth–Point Elizabeth Railway and Coal Company (Limited), and comprising the parcel of land shortly described in the Schedule hereto.

TAKE notice that, as you have failed to pay the rents and royalties reserved by the said lease as and when the same respectively became due and payable, and such rents and royalties are now unpaid for the space of forty-two days and more (no rents or royalty having been paid since the 31st day of December, 1897), and as you have also failed to raise or to get any coal from the said lands, and generally have failed to perform or observe the several covenants and conditions to be performed by the lessee under the said lease and the assignment thereof, as modified in the terms of the memorandum attached to the said assignment, and signed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Nelson, on the 6th day of May, 1897, and consented to by the Hon. the Minister of Mines, after notice in writing to perform, fulfil, or observe the same within twenty-one days from the date of the service thereof, and which said notice was served by delivering the same to Alexander Macdougall, Managing Director, personally, on the 20th day of December, 1901, I, Thomas Young Duncan, the Minister of Lands for the time being of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby revoke, countermand, and determine the said deed of lease, and the several liberties, licenses, powers, and authorities thereby given or granted to you the said company, or intended so to be, or by the said assignment respectively.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of January, 1902.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Signed by the said Thomas Young Duncan, Minister of Lands for the Colony of New Zealand, in the presence of—
J. W. A. Marchant, Surveyor-General, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 223 acres 2 roods, be the same more or less, situated in the Land District of Nelson, being Section No. 4, Block I., Cobden Survey District, and bounded as follows: On the north, 6535 links, by Section No. 25; on the east and south-east by Rocky Creek; and on the south-west, 7040 links, by a township reserve.