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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 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 of the said District, deposited in the Survey Office, Dunedin.

Alex. Willis,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has appointed

Mr. John Thomson,
to be Inspector of Sheep at Port Chalmers, vice Kennedy. Appointment to date from 1st July, 1869.

G. Mclean,
Provincial Secretary.

12th October, 1869.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the remaining Allotments in the Townships of Fairfax, Kapiti, and Waihola will be offered for sale by public auction,
at the Court-house, Tokomairiro, on Thursday, the 18th day of November next, at 12 o’clock noon, at the undermentioned upset prices.

The Townships of Mataura Bridge, Clinton, Waikawa, Molyneux, Balclutha, Newhaven, and Kaitangata will be offered for sale on Friday, the 19th day of November, at 12 o’clock noon, at the Court-house, Balclutha, at upset prices as affixed.

Fairfax Township.

Sections 1 and 12, block vi.
Sections 2 to 6, 8 to 14, block vii.
Sections 6 and 17, block viii.
Section 12, block x.
Sections 3 to 5, block xi.
Upset price £5 each.

Kapiti Township.

Sections 1 to 18, block i.
Sections 1 to 14, block ii.
Sections 4, 6, 9 and 10, block iii.
Sections 1, 2, 4 to 14, block iv.
Sections 1 to 14, block v.
Upset price of £5 each.

Waihola Township.

Sections 9 to 14, 16 and 17, block vi.
Do 13, block viii.
Do 11, 14 and 15, block ix.
Do 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 20 and 21, block x.
Do 1 to 9, 12 to 19, 21 and 22, block xi.
Do 1 to 6, 17 and 20, block xii.
Do 1 to 7, 9 to 17 and 20, block xiii.
Do 1 to 7, 10 to 17, 19 to 22, block xiv.
Do 1 to 3, 5, 10, 13, 21 and 22, block xv.
Do 2, 3, 5 to 13, 15 to 22, block xvi.
Do 1, 4 to 11, 13 to 16, block xvii.
Do 1 to 5, 7 to 15, block xviii.
Do 1 to 3, 11 to 16, block xix.
Do 1 to 3, 5 to 13, and 16, block xx.
Do 2 to 7, 9 to 17, 19 to 22, block xxi.
Do 1 to 5, 8 to 15, 17 to 22, block xxii.
Do 1, 3 to 11, 13 to 21, block xxiv.
Do 2 to 9, 11 to 19, 21 and 22, block xxv.

At the upset price of £12 10s. each.

Township of Mataura Bridge—

Sections 1 to 5, block i.
Do 1 to 5, block ii.
Do 7, 9 to 13, block ii.
Do 2 to 5, block iii.
At an upset price of £12 10s...

Township of Clinton.

Sections 1 to 9, 11 to 19, block i.
Do 1 to 9, 11 to 19, block ii.
Do 1 to 9, 11 to 19, block iii.
Do 1 to 9, 11 to 19, block iv.
Do 1 to 9, 11 to 18, block v.
At the upset price of £12 10s. each.

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...