✨ Proclamation of Gold Fields
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are hereby obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s Command,
E. B. CARPENTER,
Provincial Secretary.
Vol. VI.] TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1863. [No. 263.
PROCLAMATION
Of certain Gold Fields in the Province of Otago.
I, JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested in this behalf, constitute and appoint all that territory hereinafter described to be a Gold Field under the Provisions of the Gold Fields Act, 1862, and to be called
TUAPEKA GOLD-FIELD,
(that is to say): commencing at the junction of the Scrub Burn and the Clutha River, thence by the Scrub Burn to its sources; thence by the water-sheds of the Tuapeka Stream and Clutha River to the Lammerlaw; thence by the water-sheds of the Waipori and Lee, and Traquhar Streams to Maungatua; thence by the boundary of the West Taieri and North Tokomairiro Hundreds to the north branch of the Tokomairiro River; thence by the Tokomairiro River to the Main South Road; thence by the said road to its intersection with Lovell’s Creek; thence by Lovell’s Creek to the boundary of Run numbered 54; thence by the boundary of the said run to appoint situated north-east of the sources of the Crook Burn; thence by a south-westerly line to the sources of Crook Burn; thence by the Crook Burn to its junction with the Clutha River; thence by the Clutha River to the starting point.
And in further pursuance of the said power and authority, I do hereby constitute and appoint all that other territory hereinafter described to be a Gold-field under the provisions of the said Act; and to be called
THE MOUNT Benger GOLD-FIELD,
(that is to say): All that Land bounded towards the north by the Dunstan Gold-field; on the east by a line parallel to the east bank of the Clutha River, at twenty chains distance from that River, and extending from the Dunstan Gold-field to the Scrub Burn, towards the south by the Scrub Burn, and an east and west line from the junction of the Scrub Burn and Clutha River aforesaid, and towards the west by a line parallel to the Clutha River, at twenty chains distance from the banks of that River, and extending from the east and west line aforesaid to the Dunstan Gold-field.
And I do, in further pursuance of the said power and authority, also constitute
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1863, No 265
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🗺️ Proclamation of Tuapeka and Mount Benger Gold Fields
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey15 September 1863
Gold Fields, Proclamation, Tuapeka, Mount Benger, Otago
- John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago
- E. B. Carpenter, Provincial Secretary