OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. X. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1866. No. 417
[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

ORDER

Revoking the 1st section of Regulation XIII of the Rules and Regulations of the Otago Gold Fields, and substituting another in lieu thereof.

WHEREAS John Hyde Harris, then Superintendent of the Province of Otago, under and by virtue of the powers delegated to him in that behalf, did on the twenty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, make and ordain certain Rules and Regulations relating to mining on the Otago Gold Fields, and the making of which Rules and Regulations was duly notified in the Government Gazette of the said Province, and published on the said twenty-first day of October: And whereas it is expedient that the first section of Regulation XIII of the said Rules and Regulations, relating to extended claims, should be revoked and cancelled, and that another section should be made in lieu of the said section;—Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to me in this behalf, do hereby revoke and cancel the said first section of the said Rule XIII, and do order that the same shall stand revoked and cancelled from the day of the date hereof: And I do further order that the following Regulation shall be substituted in the place of the said first section of the said Rule XIII so revoked (that is to say):—

XIII.—EXTENDED CLAIMS.

1.—Extended Boundaries.

Upon receiving sufficient proof that any ground has been fairly worked, and is either wholly, or for the greater part abandoned, or that it cannot be profitably worked in claims of the ordinary area, as prescribed by the Regulations, owing to the excessive influx of water, or any other cause, the Warden of the District may define boundaries within which holders of Miners’ Rights may occupy claims of double or treble the said “Ordinary Area,” as to the said Warden may seem advisable.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at
(L.S.) Dunedin, this seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

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

PROCLAMATION

Of the Municipality of West Hāwea.

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 shall 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...