The Schedule above referred to.

Naseby—Block I.

Sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 28, 29, 30, 56, 63, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 107.

ALEX. WILLIS,

Clerk to the Executive Council.

Thomas Fraser,
Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine;

Present:

His Honor THE DEPUTY-SUPERINTENDENT,
DONALD REID,
GEORGE M’LEAN, and
GEORGE DUNCAN, Esquires,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, being also Members of the Provincial Council of the said Province.

WHEREAS Thomas Dick, Esquire, then Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in him in that behalf, did, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, bearing date twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, constitute and appoint all the territory therein described (including amongst other lands the lands described in the Schedule hereto, comprising the incorporated town of Lawrence, in the said Province of Otago) to be a (Gold Field, under the provisions of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” to be called “Otago Gold Field:” And whereas by the “Gold Fields Act Amendment Act 1867,” it is enacted that within any Province in which by any Act or Ordinance it is provided that the Superintendent shall, in the administration of the Government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand, and under the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time, as occasion may require, to delegate to the Executive Government for the time being of such Province, subject or not to any restrictions or limitations, as he shall think fit, all or any of such powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” as under or by virtue of the one hundred and ninth section of the said Act may be delegated by the Governor in Council; and in like manner to revoke any such delegation: And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled the “Executive Council Ordinance 1861,” it is provided that the Superintendent of the said Province shall, in the administration of the government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council: And whereas the Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, and in pursuance of the power and authority for that purpose vested in him by the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” and subject to its provisions, delegated unto the Executive Government for the time being of the Province of Otago, all such powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council by the said last-mentioned Act, as under or by virtue of the one hundred and ninth section of the said last-mentioned Act, may be delegated by the Governor in Council, to have, hold, and exercise the said powers within the said Province of Otago: And whereas by clause ten of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council at any time, either by a particular or general description, to exempt from occupation for mining purposes, or for residence, or for business, under any miners’ right or business license, any specific portion of Crown Land, or any class of Crown Land, within a Gold Field; and such exemption from time to time to revoke and the limits and extent of such exempted land to alter as he shall think fit; and that land so exempted or included in any class so exempted, shall not be occupied under any miners’ right or business license:

And whereas the Executive Government of the Province of Otago have determined to exempt from occupation for mining purposes, and for residence or business, under any miners’ right or business license, all Crown Lands within the area specified in the Schedule hereto, being the area comprising the incorporated town of Lawrence:

Now therefore, His Honor Thomas Fraser, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province, doth hereby, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to the Executive Government of the said Province of Otago in this behalf, exempt from occupation for mining purposes, and for residence, and for business, under any miners’ right or business license, all Crown Lands within the said area specified in the Schedule hereto.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

The Schedule above referred to.

All that parcel of land situate in the south-eastern district of the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement six hundred and six acres, more or less, bounded towards the north by Crown Lands, seven thousand four hundred and thirty-one links; towards the east by Crown Lands, six thousand nine hundred and thirteen links; towards the south by Crown Lands, five thousand nine hundred and forty-five links, also, five hundred links; towards the south-west by Crown Lands, four thousand links, also, two thousand links; and towards the north-west by Crown Lands, five hundred links, also, three thousand six hundred and seventy links, and intersected by the Tuapeka and Weatherstone’s Creeks; all of which said lands are contained within and known as the township of Lawrence, and are more particularly delineated on the record map of the said township, deposited at the office of the Chief Surveyor, Dunedin.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,

that in accordance with Section 7 of the Depasturing Regulations for the Otago Gold Fields, dated 23rd June, 1868, the undermentioned Regulations, for the election of Wardens for the Depasturing District of Wakatipu, having been passed by the Board of Wardens, and assented to by His Honor the Deputy-Superintendent, the election of Wardens for the year ending 31st July 1870, will take place on Monday, 2nd August, 1869.

D. REID,
Secretary for Land and Works.
20th July, 1869.

Regulations Referred to.

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 Thursday, the twenty-ninth 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.