survey. The balance, if any, of such deposit will be returned after the application has been finally dealt with.

4th. The boundaries of the area applied for must be marked out on the ground by trenches, and substantial posts at each corner thereof.

5th. Every such area must be rectangular in form, unless a creek or river, or other natural obstacle, renders a deviation from the rectangular form necessary.

6th. As soon as possible after the receipt of any application and deposit as aforesaid, the Warden will instruct a Surveyor to proceed to the ground for the purpose of examining, surveying, and reporting upon the same.

7th. All land for which application shall have been made in the manner aforesaid, shall be protected from the date of such application, until the decision of His Honor the Superintendent shall be made known to the Warden.

8th. Agricultural Leases will not be granted for lands within the boundaries of proclaimed Townships or Public Reserves, nor for any area including a permanent water-course, or which may present auriferous indications upon survey; and in all cases a public roadway, one chain in width, will be reserved along the margins of streams and rivers.

SCHEDULE REFERRED TO.

No.

NOTICE.

(Place and Date.)

To the Warden at

I hereby apply for a lease of land for Agricultural purposes, situate at (here state the locality), and comprising ____ acres, or thereabouts; and I deposit herewith the sum of ten pounds to cover the costs of survey, and I agree to pay the further costs (if any) of such survey, according to the scale prescribed by the Agricultural Leases Regulations.

Signature [name in full, and address.]

N.B.—Any person desirous of objecting to the granting of an Agricultural Lease for the land herein specified, must lodge such objection, IN WRITING, at my office, within fourteen (14) clear days from the date hereof.

(Signed) Warden.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
H. J. MILLER,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION,

Reserving and Withdrawing from the Tuapeka and Mount Benger Gold Fields, and exempting from occupation under Miners’ Rights and Business Licenses, certain Waste Lands of the Crown in the Province of Otago.

By His Honor Thomas Dick, Esquire, Superintendent of the said Province.

WHEREAS by Proclamation, bearing date the fifteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, published in the Government Gazette of the Province of Otago, certain Lands therein particularly described were constituted a Gold Field under the names of the “Tuapeka Gold Field,” and the “Mount Benger Gold Field,” and the limits of the said Gold Fields were in the said Proclamation defined: And whereas the Lands hereinafter described are within the limits of the said Gold Fields, and it is necessary and expedient to withdraw the same from the said Gold Fields: Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue of the powers delegated to me in this behalf by His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand in Council, under the authority of the “Gold Fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865,” do hereby proclaim and declare that I do withdraw from the said Gold Fields the Lands hereinafter described, that is to say—All that area containing approximately two thousand eight hundred and eighty acres, situate in the south-eastern district of the said Province, commencing at a point opposite the junction of the Scrub Burn with the Molyneux River; thence westward along the boundary of the Gold Field for a distance of half a mile; thence following the boundary of the Gold Field northward to a point opposite the junction of the Sow Burn with the Molyneux River; thence for a distance of half a mile eastward to the Molyneux River; thence along the Molyneux River to the starting point. The above to be exclusive of five chains along the Molyneux, from high water mark, for mining purposes.

And by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to me in this behalf, I do proclaim and declare all the said Lands hereinbefore described to be exempt from occupation under any Miner’s Right or Business License.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
H. J. MILLER,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION

Of the Municipality of Queenstown.

By His Honor Thomas Dick, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, made and passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, “An Ordinance to Amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it should be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice of his Executive Council, and he was thereby authorised and required, on the petition of not less than fifty persons, comprising a majority of the householders resident in any Township within the Province, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, to extend the Provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” to such Township, by such name or incorporation as he should deem fit, with such modification as to the names and number of the members of such proposed Corporation, and the Office-bearers thereof, and any other municipal matters and regulations as should seem to such Superintendent and his Executive Council suitable for the area and population of such Municipality; and, in accordance with such petition or otherwise, should define the boundaries of the Municipality so created, and declare the number of Wards into which such Municipality might be divided, and define the boundaries of such Wards respectively, and declare which of the provisions of the said Ordinance should be applicable to and within the limits of such Municipality: And whereas a Petition of fifty-nine persons, comprising a majority of the householders resident in the Township of Queenstown, in the said Province of Otago, has been presented to me, Thomas Dick, as Superintendent of the said Province, praying that the provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” may be extended to the said Township: Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice of my Executive Council, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare, that from and after the day of the date hereof, the provisions of the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” specified in the first Schedule hereto, shall ex-