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ON Tuesday, 28th October, 1862, and on every alternate Tuesday thereafter, until further notice, the Treasury Escort will leave the Dunstan Gold Fields for the Camp, Tuapeka; and on Thursday, 30th October, and every alternate Thursday thereafter until further notice, the Escort will leave Tuapeka for Dunedin, arriving in Dunedin on Friday.

By order,
Thomas Dick,
Provincial Secretary.

OTAGO, N.Z., EXPLORING STEAM SERVICE.

TENDERS will be received at the office of His Honor the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, N.Z., until 4 o’clock on Friday, the 14th of November, 1862, from parties desirous for a Charter for a Steamer to the West Coast of Otago, according to a Specification to be seen at the said office, and at Messrs. Holmes, White & Co.’s, Melbourne, and Messrs. Learmonth, Dickinson, and Co.’s, Sydney.

The Government will not be bound to accept any Tender; and, should a Tender be accepted, it will be subject to adjustment of details in the Contract, which must be signed at once, and the Steamer must be at Dunedin Harbour on the 15th of December, 1862, fully equipped and ready for the service. The Steamer will probably be required four months.

By order,
Thomas Dick,
Provincial Secretary.

SPECIFICATION OF STEAMER REQUIRED.

To be a Screw Steamer, Schooner-rigged, of about one hundred and fifty tons, forty-five horse power engines, good Cabin and Steerage accommodation; to be equipped with one Life Boat, two Whale Boats, with oars and sails complete, also a duplicate set of oars; to have full length chain cables of one hundred and twenty fathoms each, good anchors, and one new five-inch hawser; to be manned with a crew of five men for each of the Whale Boats, together with the crew of the vessel; to supply Cabin fare for two, Steerage fare for two, and to supply fuel, water, and victualled for a five months’ voyage.

The Vessel to be employed in the Survey of the Harbours of the West Coast of Otago, and the Master of the Vessel to act under the orders of the Chief Surveyor.

A PROCLAMATION

Revoking the Proclamation of Wetherstone’s and Gabriel’s Gullies, and the Lands adjacent thereto, as a Mining Board District within the Province of Otago.

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

WHEREAS, by the “Gold Fields Act, 1858,” it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, by Proclamation, to declare any 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 therein described, and to declare the name of such district, and define the limits thereof, and from time to time to alter such limits and make others, and to revoke such Proclamation, if he shall think fit:

And 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, Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor of the said Colony, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise of the power and authority in him vested for that purpose, did thereby delegate absolutely and without restriction unto me, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, as Superintendent of the Province of Otago, all the powers and authority in him vested 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 a Proclamation made on the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in pursuance of the powers delegated to me as aforesaid, I proclaimed and declared Wetherstone’s and Gabriel’s Gullies, and the lands adjacent thereto, to be a district of the said Gold Field for the purpose of forming a Mining Board with the powers and authority in the said Act described, and named the same Gabriel’s District, and defined the limits thereof to be as therein set forth:

And whereas owing to the failure of the Members of the said Mining Board to form a quorum for the despatch of business, it has become expedient to revoke such proclamation;