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.

[Republished from last week’s Gazette.]

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 Tuapeka, 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, the 2nd August, 1869.

DONALD REID,
Secretary for Land and Works.

20th July, 1869.

Regulations referred to.

1. The Board of Wardens for the District aforesaid shall consist of nine Elective Members, and a Chairman hereafter to be appointed.

2. The Tuapeka depasturing district shall be divided into two divisions—the Tuapeka division shall constitute one portion and Waitahuna the other; the boundaries to be as previously laid down in the Provincial Government Gazette, July 8th, 1868.

3. The Tuapeka division shall return five members, Waitahuna division four members.

4. Nominations of candidates for the office of warden must be made in writing addressed to the Chairman of the Board, and must be signed by the proposer and seconder of the candidate, and must be forwarded to the Chairman, on or before Thursday, the 29th day of July, 1869.

5. If more than the requisite number of candidates are nominated for either division, a poll shall take place, and if there are not more than the requisite number nominated, then the candidates nominated shall be declared to have been duly elected.

6. No person shall be entitled to be so nominated for the office of warden, nor shall any person be entitled so to nominate or to second the nomination of any candidate, unless he holds the qualification stated in Clause 5 of the Depasturing Regulations published in the Provincial Government Gazette of the 24th June.

7. Voters shall record their votes personally within the district wherein they possess the requisite qualifications, and the document in respect of which they claim to vote must be produced to the Returning Officer, and he shall write on some part thereof—“Voted”.

8. A poll, if taken, shall be held at Tuapeka division, and Waitahuna division, between the hours of 12 to 3 and 5 to 8 p.m., on the 2nd day of August.

9. The names of Candidates nominated shall be advertised in the local papers.

10. Any candidate not having the requisite qualifications (as hereinbefore contained) at the time of the election shall be incapable of being elected, and it shall be in the power of the Board to inquire into the qualification of all persons elected, and to declare the election of any unqualified person null and void; whereupon a fresh election shall be held to fill up the vacancy.

PROCLAMATION.

Guaranteeing payment out of the Revenues of the Province of Otago of interest on certain paid up Capital of the Dunedin Water Works Company.

By His Honor Captain Thomas Fraser, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by the “Dunedin Water Works Company Guaranteed Interest Ordinance 1864,” the Superintendent of Otago was authorised and empowered, with the advice and consent of the

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 XLIX of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” it is provided, that if a Depasturing Lease or License shall not, at the date of the passing of the said Act, have been granted, or shall have been or shall be cancelled over any Crown Lands within a Gold Field, it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time by Proclamation, to declare such Lands or any part thereof, open for sale or selection, in Sections of such size and form as he may determine, and any Lands so proclaimed may thereafter be sold at a like price, and subject to the like terms and conditions or as near thereto as may be as Crown Lands of the same class not within a Gold Field, and it shall not be necessary to withdraw Lands from the operation of the said Act for the purposes aforesaid: And whereas at the date of the passing of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” all Depasturing Licenses hitherto existing over the Crown Lands situated in the Town of Naseby, as the same are described in the Schedule hereto had been cancelled: And whereas the Executive Government of the Province of Otago, have determined to open up for sale the Surveyed Crown Lands, situate and being within the said Town of Naseby, in Sections of the size and form in which the same have already been surveyed, and as the same are laid off and delineated in the maps of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Otago relative thereto: 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 in this behalf by His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand in Council, under the authority of the “Gold Fields Act Amendment Act 1867,” and of any and every other power in any wise enabling the said Executive Government in this behalf proclaim and declare, that from and after the date hereof, All the Surveyed Crown Lands in the said Town of Naseby specified in the Schedule hereto, shall be open for sale in Sections of the size and form in which such Lands respectively have already been surveyed, and as the same are laid off and delineated on the Map in the Office of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Otago relative thereto.