dred and sixty-seven constitute and appoint all the territory therein described (including amongst other lands the lands described in the Schedule hereto) to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the "Gold Fields Act 1866" to be called the "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 entitled 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 forty-nine 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 specified in the Schedule hereto have been cancelled: And whereas the Executive Government of the Province of Otago have determined to open up for sale the said Crown Lands specified in the Schedule hereto in one section of the size and form in which the same has already been surveyed and as the same is now 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 anywise enabling the said Executive Government in this behalf proclaim and declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the Crown Lands specified in the Schedule hereto shall

be open for sale in one section of the size and form in which such lands have already been surveyed and as the same are now 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—

All that area in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement three (3) acres, more or less, situate on Run No. 221, and being Section numbered seventy-one (71), Block one (1), Leaning Rock District: bounded towards the north-west by Crown Lands, three hundred and ninety-one (391) links; towards the north-east by Crown Lands, seven hundred and sixty-eight (768) links; towards the south-east by Crown Lands, three hundred and ninety-one (391) links; and towards the south-west by a road line, seven hundred and sixty-eight (768) links:

ALEX. WILLS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

NOTICE.—Whereas it is intended to stop up these Roads and portions of Roads which are severally described in the Schedule hereunder written and are delineated on the maps or plans mentioned and referred to in the "Roads Diversion Ordinance 1870" Session XXVII: copies of which maps or plans so far as they relate to the particular roads or portions of roads intended to be stopped up in the Road District specified in the Schedule have been deposited at the public School mentioned immediately after the description of the respective roads or portions of roads intended to be stopped up in such district: Now therefore I William Alexander Tolmie Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf by the "Roads Diversion Ordinance 1870" Session No. XXVII do hereby give notice that all persons objecting to the stopping up of such roads or portions of roads or any of them are required to set forth a statement in writing of any well-grounded objections they may have to the stopping up of such roads or portions of roads and to leave such statement addressed to me at my office in Dunedin within sixty days from the first publication hereof otherwise such objections will not be considered by me.

Adamsthope Road District. (No. 1.)

1. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 2a 0r 16p more or less being a road line situate in the Tokomairiro Survey District bounded on the west by section No. 6 block XLVII 3500 links more or less and on the east by section 1 block XLII 3500 links more or less.

Plan to be seen at the school-house, Tokomairiro.

Blueskin Road District. (No. 2.)

1. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 3a 2r 0p, more or less, being a road line situate in the North Harbor and Blueskin Survey District bounded towards the north by sections numbered 1 and 2 block I 8050 links more or less and on the south by section No. 2 block I 8050 links more or less.

Plans to be seen at Schoolhouse, Blueskin.

Breadalbane Road District. (No. 3.)

1. All that area in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement 0a 3r 38p more or less being a road line situate in the Taieri Survey District bounded on the north by section No. 61 irregular block 1650 links more or less and on the south by sections numbered 15 and 16 block XVIII East Taieri 1650 links more or less.

2. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 0a 3r 14p more or less