OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. X. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1866. No. 420
[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

PROCLAMATION

Rescinding Proclamation of the 27th day of March last, and substituting another Proclamation in lieu thereof, Reserving and Withdrawing from the Mount Benger Gold Field certain Waste Lands of the Crown in the Province of Otago.

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

WHEREAS it is expedient to rescind the Proclamation of the twenty-seventh day of March last in so far as it relates to the description of certain lands therein described to belong to the Tuapeka and Mount Benger Gold Fields: And 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 name of the “Mount Benger Gold Field,” and the limits of the said Gold Field were in the said Proclamation defined: And whereas the Lands hereinafter described are within the limits of the said Gold Field, and it is necessary and expedient to withdraw the same from the said Gold Field;—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 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 rescind the said Proclamation of the twenty-seventh day of March last, in so far as it relates to the description of certain lands therein described to belong to the Tuapeka and Mount Benger Gold Fields; and in lieu thereof I hereby proclaim and declare, that I do withdraw from the said Mount Benger Gold Field the lands hereinafter described, that is to say—

All that area situate in the Mount Benger Gold Field, and commencing at a point opposite the junction of the Scrubburn with the Molyneux River; thence westward for a distance of twenty (20) chains to the boundary of the Mount Benger Gold Field; thence northward following the boundary of the said Gold Field to a point opposite the junction of the Sowburn with the Molyneux River; thence for a distance of twenty (20) chains eastward to the Molyneux River; and thence along the said River to the starting point, containing approximately one thousand four hundred and forty (1440) acres.

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,
(L.S.) at Dunedin, this sixteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

Thomas Dick,
Superintendent.

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

PROCLAMATION

Of Governor having assented to certain Ordinances.

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

WHEREAS in the twenty-first Session of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, held in the twenty-ninth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, there were passed by the said Council the following Bills, that is to say—

“Oamaru Town Reserves Management Bill, 1865.”
“Roads Diversion Bill No. 2, 1865.”

And whereas the said Bills above-named were, upon the fifth day of January last, presented to the Superintendent of the Province of Otago for the assent of the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand: And whereas the said Superintendent did declare that he reserved the said Bills for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon: And whereas the said Bills have been laid before the said Governor, and he has assented to the same: Now therefore I, the said