[New Zealand Gazette]

DELEGATION OF POWERS UNDER THE GOLD FIELDS ACT, 1866

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 Blocks ii and iii, Table Hill District, 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 Blocks ii and iii, Table Hill District, 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 James Macandrew, 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 Blocks ii and iii, Table Hill District, 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.

SCHEDULE

All that area situate in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement three thousand nine hundred and eighty (3980) acres, three (3) roods, and ten (10) poles, more or less; comprising sections numbered respectively 1, 8, 17, 18, 19, 10, 12, 20, 21, 93, 92, 83, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 39, 40, and 41, block II; and sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 2 of 32, 33, and 34, block III, Table Hill District, as delineated on the record map of the said District, deposited in the Survey Office, Dunedin.

ALEX. WILLIAMS,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

GOVERNMENT SALE OF AGRICULTURAL LAND

11,000 acres (being part of the Hon. F. D. Bell’s runs) in Shag Valley — Notice is hereby given, that the following allotments of land, comprising about 11,000 acres, in the Shag Valley, will be offered for sale in the Land Office, Dunedin, at noon on Wednesday, the 20th day of October, 1869, viz.:

Sections 9 to 38, Dunback District
Sections 2 to 52, Waihemo District

Maps may be seen in the Land Office; and lithographs of the same may be obtained from the various Agents.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Notice — The Government has made arrangements with the Lessee, whereby purchasers of Land within this Block, who bona fide occupy the same, will be entitled to depasture cattle on the unsold lands within the Block on paying to the Lessee (the Hon. F. D. Bell) the sum of 3s.6d. per annum for each head of cattle so depastured. The grazing right will be on the following scale:

Owners of not exceeding 100 acres will be entitled to depasture 10 head of great cattle; exceeding 100 and not exceeding 200 acres, 15 head; 200 acres and upwards, 20 head.

D. REID,
Secretary for Land and Works.

From the New Zealand Gazette, September 20, 1869, No. 55.

G. F. BOWEN,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of September, 1869.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the "Marine Act 1867," it is enacted that the Governor shall, from time to time, as occasion may require, make and issue Quarantine Regulations to be in force within any part or parts of the Colony, and that the Governor in Council may, from time to time, make, publish, alter, modify, annul, or repeal such bye-laws or regulations as to him shall seem meet for carrying into effect and enforcing the general powers and duties by the said Act vested in and imposed on the said Governor:

And whereas by an Order in Council, dated the twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, certain Quarantine Regulations for the several Ports and Harbours of the Colony of New Zealand were made and promulgated:

And whereas it is desirable to modify the said Regulations and to make the additional Regulations herein contained:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, and in pursuance of the above-recited power and authority, doth hereby make the following additional Quarantine Regulations, to be in force within all the Ports of New Zealand, and doth order that the same shall come into operation and take effect in each Province on and from the date of publication thereof in the Gazette of such Province, and in the County of Westland on and from the day of publication thereof in the County of Westland Gazette.

REGULATIONS

1. In the event of there being any sickness on...