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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 Towns of Wakaia and Wetherston respectively, had been cancelled: And whereas the Executive Government of the Province of Otago, have determined to open up for sale the Surveyed and unsold Crown Lands, situate and being within the said Towns of Wakaia and Wetherston respectively, and mentioned in the Schedule hereto, 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 Field’s 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 and unsold Crown Lands in the said Towns of Wakaia and Wetherston respectively, which are mentioned 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.

The Schedule above referred to.

Town of Wakaia: all the sections in blocks No. I to XXV, inclusive.

Town of Wetherston: all the sections in blocks I to VIII, inclusive.

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 27th day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

Present:

His Honor the Deputy-Superintendent,
Donald Reid,
George M’Lean, and
John Lillie Gillies, Esquires,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, being also Members of the Provincial Council thereof.

WHEREAS by the third section of the "Gold Fields Act 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, by Proclamation, to constitute and appoint any portion of the Colony to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the said Act, and the limits of such Gold Field from time to time to alter, as occasion may require: And 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 the 29th day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, constitute and appoint all the territory therein described to be a Gold Field, under the provisions of the "Gold Fields Act 1866," to be called the "Otago Gold Field": And whereas the limits of the said "Otago Gold Field," as described in the said Proclamation, has been from time to time altered and extended: 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," and under or by virtue 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 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 the Executive Government of the Province of Otago have determined further to alter and extend the limits of the said Otago Gold Field, so as to include therein the area of land hereinafter described.

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, and by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to the Executive Government of the said Province of Otago, in this behalf, and of the "Gold Fields Act 1866," doth hereby proclaim and declare that all that area of land hereinafter described shall henceforth be included in, and form part of, the Otago Gold Field (that is to say) —

All that area situate in the Province of Otago, containing by estimation 70,400 acres, more or less, comprising Runs numbered 175B and 202; also, parts of Runs numbered 193 and 254B, on the map of the south-eastern pastoral district of the said Province: bounded by a line proceeding along Parasol Creek from its junction with the Pomahaka River to its source; thence in a southerly direction along the present boundary of the Otago Gold Field to the southern boundary of Run 198; thence easterly to Run 175B; thence south-easterly along the boundary of Run 175B to Run 175A; thence along the western and northern boundaries of Run 175A to the Pomahaka River; thence northerly along the Pomahaka River to Parasol Creek, the starting point.

Alex. Willis,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

PROCLAMATION.

Road Districts of Meadow Bank and Ahuriri formed.

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

WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province