OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Deputy Superintendent.

Vol. V.] WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1862. [No. 204]

A PROCLAMATION,

Constituting Waitahuna a District of the Gold Field within the Province of Otago, and Regulating the Elections of Members of the Mining Board of the said district.

By His Honor John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS, by warrant under the hand of His Excellency Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's colony of New Zealand, dated at Auckland the eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty one, and issued under the seal of the said colony, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise of the power and authority for that purpose in him vested, did thereby delegate absolutely and without restriction unto me, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Esquire, as Superintendent of the Province of Otago, all the powers vested in him under or by virtue of the “Gold Fields Act, 1858,” except the powers contained in Sections 7, 8, 15, 27, and 40 of the said Act, to have, hold, and exercise the powers within the Province of Otago, thereby given:—

And whereas by Clause XII. of the said Act it is enacted that upon petition of not less than one hundred persons, holding miners’ rights or leases under the said Act at any gold field, and having held such miners’ rights or leases for not less than three calendar months, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, by proclamation, to declare such gold field, or any part thereof, containing not less than one hundred persons holding miners’ rights or leases, to be a district, for the purpose of forming a Mining Board, with the powers and authority hereinafter described, and to declare the name of such district, and to define the limits thereof; and after the publication of any such proclamation the locality so described shall be and become a mining district for the purposes aforesaid.

And whereas by Clause XIII. of the said Act it is enacted that the Governor, by order in Council, shall, from time to time, prescribe what shall be the number of members of each such Mining Board; what qualification shall be required to render them eligible; who shall act as returning officer; when, where, and in what manner the elections of such members shall be conducted; in what manner erroneous returns shall be corrected; for what period such members shall be elected; when and in what manner vacancies in any Mining Board shall be created, and how the same shall be filled up; and generally shall make provision for ensuring the orderly, effective, and impartial conduct of the elections of members of such Mining Board.

And whereas more than one hundred persons holding miners’ rights under the said Act at the Waitahuna gold fields, in the Province of Otago, and having held such miners’ rights for not less than three calendar months, have preferred their petition to me, praying that I would issue the necessary instructions for the formation of a Mining Board.