OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XII. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1868. No. 556
[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Gold Mining Lease granted to Chas. Michael Ware, William Longmuir, Henry Watt, John Chapman, and William Roberts, for 5 acres of land situate at Hindon, in the Province of Otago, has been cancelled, and the said land is open for occupation by holders of miners’ rights.

GEORGE DUNCAN,
Secretary for Land and Works.
Land and Works Office,
Dunedin, 23rd June, 1868.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Gold Mining Lease granted to Richard Creeth and William Ward for 5 acres of land situate at Hindon, in the Province of Otago, has been cancelled, and the said land is open for occupation by holders of miners’ rights.

GEORGE DUNCAN,
Secretary for Land and Works.
Land and Works Office,
Dunedin, 23rd June, 1868.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Gold Mining Lease granted to George Murray and Henry John Abel for 15 acres, 2 roods, and 8 perches of land, situate at Hindon, in the Province of Otago, has been cancelled, and the said land is open for occupation by holders of miners’ rights.

GEORGE DUNCAN,
Secretary for Land and Works.
Land and Works Office,
Dunedin, 23rd June, 1868.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in conformity with the “Depasturing Regulations, 1865,” published in the Provincial Government Gazette, No. 553, dated June 24th, 1868, the first election of Wardens for the Depasturing District of Wakatipu, will be held on Saturday, 1st day of August, next ensuing.

The Board of Wardens for the District aforesaid shall consist of nine elective members, and a chairman hereafter to be appointed.

The following Regulations shall be the Regulations for the first election as aforesaid:—

I. The Wakatipu Depasturing District shall, for the purposes of this election, be divided; and the Arrow Gold Field Division shall constitute one portion thereof, and the Queenstown Gold Field Division shall constitute the other portion thereof.

II. The Queenstown Division shall be entitled to return five members, and the Arrow Division shall be entitled to return four members to the said Board.

III. Nominations of candidates must be made in writing, addressed to the Warden of the Queenstown Gold Field, on or before Monday the twenty-seventh day of July next ensuing, and in the following form, which must be signed in full by the proposer and seconder of every such candidate:

FORM.

To THE WARDEN AT QUEENSTOWN.

(Place and Date.)

We hereby nominate (here insert name in full) to be a member of the first Board of Wardens for the (Arrow, or Queenstown) Division of the Wakatipu Depasturing District.

(Signatures.)

• After the signatures of the proposer and seconder, the nature and particulars of the qualification under which they claim to vote must be stated.

IV. If more than the requisite number of candidates are nominated for either Division, a poll shall take place on Saturday the 1st August, from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m., and after the latter hour no further vote shall be allowed to be recorded; and the candidates in whose favor the greatest number of votes shall have been recorded at the said hour of 4 p.m., or, in the event of there not being more than the requisite number, then the candidates nominated, shall, as soon thereafter as may be, be declared by the Warden, or other officer, to have been duly elected for the ensuing six months.