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 licence or lease for depasturing purposes, it shall be lawful for the Governor, at his discretion, to cancel the licence 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 licence or lease, on such occurrence of the licensee or lessee, to suspend such lease or licence as regards the whole or any part of such lands:

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 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 said last-mentioned Act, may be delegated by the Governor in Council; 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, 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 Mr. John Maclean under a lease for depasturing purposes, issued under the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1866:” And whereas the Executive Government of the Province of Otago have determined to cancel the said lease 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 proclaim and declare that the lands comprised within the area hereinafter described have been and are hereby selected and set apart by the Executive-Government of the Province of Otago for the purpose of granting agricultural leases thereon and applications therefor will be received by the Warden on and after the 30th day of January, 1871, (that is to say),—

Block I, Beaumont, open to lease.
Sections 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 23, 13, 15, 18, 36, 28, 32, 30, 27.

Block II, Beaumont.
Sections 1, 3, 5, 7.

Block II, Tuapeka West.
Sections 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18.

Block III, Tuapeka West.
Sections 2, 3, 10, 4, 12, 8, 2, 16, 15, 17, 24, 22, 21, 19, 44, 51, 50, 48, 47, 46, 56, 57, 49, 9, 33, 41, 38, 53, 55.

And I do hereby cancel the said lease 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 seventeen thousand three hundred and sixty (17,360) acres; bounded on the north-east by a line bearing 133° extending from Beaumont burn through a point one hundred and forty chains due north of Trig. Station E, Tuapeka West Survey District, to the Tuapeka stream; towards the east by the Tuapeka stream; towards the south by Run 123; towards the west by the Clutha river; and towards the north-west by the Beaumont burn—excluding from the area included within the above described boundaries—
Sections 6, 28, 29, 30, 34, 45, and 60, Block III, Tuapeka West District.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, in the 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 28th day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

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

D. Reid,
George Duncan,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, and of the Provincial Council thereof.