to me as aforesaid, under the said Gold Fields Act, 1862, do hereby proclaim and declare that the limits of the Mount Benger Gold Field as defined by the said proclamation, dated the fifteenth day of September last, shall from the date hereof, be extended and altered, so that henceforth the said Mount Benger Gold Field shall include as well the territory mentioned and described in the said proclamation of the fifteenth September last, as also all the territory next hereinafter mentioned and described, (that is to say,) all that territory bounded towards the West by the Mount Benger Gold Field, as proclaimed on the 15th day of September last, towards the North by the Dunstan Gold Field, as proclaimed on the same day to Cameron Hill, thence by a straight line to South Rough Ridge Hill—towards the East by the Taieri Gold Field to Lammerlaw—thence by the Tuapeka Gold Field to Mount Benger Gold Field, as proclaimed on the said fifteenth day of September last. And I do proclaim and declare, that henceforth the limits of the Mount Benger Gold Field shall be the limits by which the said Gold Field is defined in the said proclamation of fifteenth September last, together with the limits of the territory hereby declared to be within the said Mount Benger Gold Field. And I do hereby further proclaim and declare, that the limits of the Dunstan Gold Field, as defined by the said proclamation of the fifteenth of September last, shall be extended and altered so that henceforth the said Dunstan Gold Field shall include as well the territory mentioned and described in the said proclamation of the fifteenth day of September last, as also all the territory next hereinafter mentioned and described, (that is to say,) all that territory bounded towards the West by the Dunstan Gold Field, as proclaimed on the fifteenth day of September last, to Leaning Rock, thence towards the North by a line to the source of the Spottisburn, thence by the Spottisburn to the Manuherikia River, thence by the Manuherikia River and Ida burn to Mount Ida, thence towards the East by the Mount Ida Gold Field to North Rough Ridge Hill, thence by the Taieri Gold Field to South Rough Ridge Hill, and thence towards the South by a straight line to Cairn Hill; and I do proclaim and declare, that henceforth the limits of the Dunstan Gold Field shall be the limits by which the said Dunstan Gold Field is defined in the said proclamation of the fifteenth day of September last, together with the limits of the territory hereby declared to be within the said Dunstan Gold Field.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this twelfth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

John Hyde Harris,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s Command,
Thomas Dick,
Provincial Secretary.

FIVE POUNDS REWARD.

BAY GELDING LOST.

Lost from Mount Stuart since the 13th December last, a Bay gelding about 14½ hands high, branded H F on near shoulder F, on off shoulder I, on near hip, has one fore and one hind foot white, and a star on the forehead.

Information or delivery received at the Survey Office Dunedin, or by Mr. Polson at Mr. Murray’s station, Glenore.

Thomas Dick,
Provincial Secretary.

LIMESTONE AT LAKE WAKATIPU.

The following analysis is published for general information.

Thomas Dick,
Provincial Secretary,
8th inst., 1864.

MEMO.

Dunedin, 5th January, 1864.

The following is an analysis of a Limestone found on the borders of Lake Wakatipu, in the Province of Otago, by Mr. J. Hacket, assistant surveyor of this department.

This stone can be obtained in abundance.

Richard S. Gore, for Dr. Hector.

This is a very hard, compact, grey coloured limestone, of considerable purity. The foreign matters contained in it consist principally of rounded black siliceous sand, and iron pyrites; it also contains traces of bituminous matters. It would be excellent for building purposes or for making lime.

ANALYSIS:—

Prot. oxide of iron, .................... .84
With alumina, .................... TRACES.
Carbonate of lime, .................... 91.60
Carbonate of magnesia, .................... 2.64
Soluble siliceous matter, .................... .09
Insoluble in hydrochloric acid, .................... 4.80
.................. 100.38

The hygroscopic water at time of analysis was .20 per cent., sp. gr. 2.702.

NOTICE.

Oamaru Town Board Election.

In pursuance of the provisions of the “Oamaru Town Board Ordinance, 1862,” I the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby appoint Thursday the fourth day of February next, at 12 o’clock, at noon, as the day and time for the holding of an Election of Four Members of the Town Board of Oamaru, in the place of Henry France, Thomas Glass, Edward Hudson, William Falconer, who go out of office on the first Wednesday of February next; and I do appoint the Court House, at Oamaru, as the place for the holding of the said Election; and I do appoint the said time and place, for the assembling of the persons entitled to Vote at the said Election; and I do appoint Friday, the fifth day of February next, as the day on which the Poll shall be taken, if a Poll be demanded; and that the said Poll shall be taken, at the said Court House; and I hereby appoint Thomas Windle Parker, Esq., of Oamaru, Returning Officer, to preside at the Meeting held for the said Election.

John Hyde Harris,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 11th January, 1864.

The time for the acceptance of the Account Book Tenders, has been extended, till noon, of Friday the 15th instant.

Thomas Dick,
Provincial Secretary.