NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. X. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1866. No. 437

[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

PROCLAMATION

Of Cancellation of License to Depasture Stock on certain Waste Lands of the Crown in the Province of Otago.

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

WHEREAS by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in the Superintendent of the Province of Otago in that behalf by the “Gold Fields Act, 1862,” John Hyde Harris, Esquire, the then Superintendent of the said Province, did by Proclamation, published in the Provincial Government Gazette, dated the fifteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, constitute and appoint a certain territory, particularly described in the said Proclamation to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the said “Gold Fields Act, 1862,” to be called by the name of the “Dunstan Gold Field,” and the limits of such Gold Field he did in and by the said Proclamation define;

And whereas the lands hereinafter described are Waste Lands of the Crown, and subject to be dealt with under the provisions of the said “Gold Fields Act, 1862,” and the “Gold Fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865”;

And whereas the said lands hereinafter described (with other lands) are now or lately were held and occupied by Archibald M’Murdo Thomson and Robert Wilkin, for depasturing purposes, under license numbered 245;

And whereas I, Thomas Dick, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, under and by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to me in this behalf, have determined to cancel the said license as to so much of the said lands held under the same as are within the area hereinafter described.

Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, as such Superintendent as aforesaid, in pursuance of the powers delegated to me in this behalf under the “Gold Fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865,” do hereby cancel and declare to be cancelled the said license numbered 245, in so far, and in so far only, as the lands within the area hereinafter described are affected by the said license, that is to say:

All that area situate in the Upper Clutha Valley, in the said Province, on the western bank of the Clutha River, and about seven miles from the Township of Cromwell, containing fifty acres, more or less, commencing at the south-west corner of a line bearing ninety degrees, thirty minutes; two thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight links; thence by a line at right angles one thousand eight hundred links; thence by a line parallel to the line first above-mentioned two thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight links; thence by a line at right angles one thousand eight hundred links to the starting point, whence a line bears two hundred and twenty-four degrees, forty-nine minutes, nine hundred and fifty links to a station erected on a terrace for reference to the above description in the absence of a trigonometrical station.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the said Province of Otago, (L.S.) this twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

Thomas Dick,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
Frederick J. Moss.

PROCLAMATION.

Prorogation of the Provincial Council to the thirteenth day of October next.

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

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the Session thereof holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled “An Act to Grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it was, inter alia, enacted that for each of the Provinces established in the said Colony by the said Act, there should be a Superintendent and a Provincial Council, to be elected and constituted under, and subject to the provisions in that behalf therein contained, and that it should be lawful for the Superintendent to prorogue the Provincial Council.