PROCLAMATION.

Cancellation of Lease to Depasture Stock on certain Crown Lands in the Province of Otago.

By His Honor James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in Council.

WHEREAS by the sixteenth section of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” it is enacted that when any Gold Mine or Gold Field shall be discovered and proclaimed upon any Crown Lands, which at the date of the passing of the said Act shall have been held under license or lease for depasturing purposes, it should be lawful for the Governor, at his discretion, to cancel the license or lease under which such land shall have been held in occupation, as regards the whole or any part of the lands so held under such license or lease, or with the concurrence of the licensee or lessee, to suspend such lease or license as regards the whole or any part of such lands:

And whereas Thomas Dick, Esquire, 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 twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, constitute and appoint all the territory therein described, including amongst other lands the lands hereinafter described, to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” to be called “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 may 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 the said lands hereinafter described are Crown Lands, subject to be dealt with under the provisions of the said sixteenth section of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” and the said lands are now, or lately were, held in occupation by Messrs. Charles Crofton Boyes and Frank Campbell Boyes, under lease numbered 345: And whereas the Executive Government of the Province of Otago have determined to cancel the said lease as to so much and such part of the lands held under the same as are comprised within the area hereinafter described:

Now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, 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 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 me in this behalf, do hereby cancel the said lease, numbered 345 in so far as the lands comprised within the area hereinafter described are affected by the said lease, but no further or otherwise (that is to say):

All that area in the Province of Otago, containing by estimation two thousand (2000) acres, more or less, situate in the Interior Pastoral District, being part of Run numbered Three hundred and forty-five (part of 345), on the Map of said district; bounded towards the north and north-east by a line forty (40) chains south of the Kawarau River and parallel thereto fifty thousand (50,000) links, towards the south-east by other part of the said Run four thousand (4000) links, towards the south and south-west by other part of the said Run fifty thousand (50,000) links, and towards the west by other part of the said Run four thousand (4000) links.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, in presence of Donald Reid, and George Duncan, Esquires, two of the members of the Executive Council of the said Province, being also members of the Provincial Council thereof, this seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

(L.S.) J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

D. REID,
GEO. DUNCAN,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, and of the Provincial Council thereof.

NOTIFICATION

Of the Establishment of a Pound at Palmerston.

NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue of the powers vested in me by the “Impounding Ordinance 1862,” I have established a Public Pound on (1078) acres, more or less, situate in the North-Eastern Pastoral District, being part of Run numbered two hundred and fifty (250) on the map of the said Pastoral District, bounded towards the north-west by other part of the said Run eleven thousand three hundred (11,300) links towards the east by Run numbered one hundred and nine thousand seven hundred (109,700) links towards the south-east by the Waikouaiti River and Crown Lands sixteen thousand four hundred (16,400) links, and towards the west by other part of Run numbered two hundred and fifty eleven thousand two hundred (11,200) links.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, in presence of Donald Reid, and George Duncan, Esquires, two of the members of the Executive Council of the said Province, being also members of the Provincial Council thereof, this seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

(L.S.) JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

D. REID,
GEORGE DUNCAN,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, and of the Provincial Council thereof.