PROCLAMATION.

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

JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent, duly authorised and empowered by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in the Superintendent of the Province of Otago in this behalf by the “Anderson’s Bay District Roads Lands Ordinance 1864,” and of the powers vested in me as Superintendent of the Province of Otago, hereby proclaim and declare that all those roads and all those portions of roads in the Province of Otago, mentioned and referred to in the said “Anderson’s Bay District Roads Lands Ordinance 1864,” and particularly described in the Schedule hereto, shall, from and after the date hereof, cease to be public roads or thoroughfares, and shall no longer form part of the public roads if the Road Districts in the Province of Otago, mentioned in the Schedule to the said Ordinance annexed.

SCHEDULE:

Eight chains in length, 60 links wide, from the District Road, on section 2, block I, Anderson’s Bay, to the District Road, on section 3, block I, Anderson’s Bay; bounded on the north by sections 2 and 3, block I; on the south by section 6 and part of 7, block IH, Anderson’s Bay.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

J. MACANDREW, Superintendent.

NOTICE

Of certain Land in the Lake District, in the Province of Otago, having been set apart for purposes of Public Recreation for the Inhabitants thereof.

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

WHEREAS the Provincial Council of Otago have, under and by virtue of Section 62 of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1866,” recommended that the lands hereinafter described should be set apart for purposes of public recreation for the inhabitants of the Lake District; and it is expedient that the said lands should be so reserved for that purpose: Now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me in this behalf, do hereby publish and declare that I have made and dedicated the lands hereinafter described a Reserve for the purposes of public recreation for the inhabitants of the Lake District (that is to say)—

All that area situate in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement 57 acres and 32 perches, more or less, being sections 23, 24, 25, 26, and portions of 44 and 45, all of block I, Shotover District, be reserved for the purposes of recreation for the use of the inhabitants of the Lake District, for the purposes of recreation for the use of the inhabitants of the Lake District.

Dated at Dunedin, this thirtieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

J. MACANDREW, Superintendent.

NOTICE

Of certain Land in the Province of Otago having been reserved as a Public Cemetery for the use of the Inhabitants of Skippers Creek.

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

WHEREAS the Provincial Council of Otago have, under and by virtue of Section 62 of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1866,” recommended that the lands hereinafter described should be reserved as a Public Cemetery for the use of the inhabitants of Skippers Creek; and it is expedient that the said lands should be so reserved for that purpose: Now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me in this behalf, do hereby publish and declare that I have made and dedicated the lands hereinafter described a Reserve for the purpose of a Public Cemetery for the use of the inhabitants of Skippers Creek (that is to say)—

All that area in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement one (1) acre, more or less, situate in the Skippers Creek District, and marked Cemetery Reserve on the map of the said district: bounded towards the north-west by Crown Lands, three hundred and twenty-one (321) links; towards the north-east by Crown Lands, three hundred and twelve (312) links; towards the south-east by Crown Lands, three hundred and twenty-one (321) links; and towards the south-west by Crown Lands, three hundred and twelve (312) links.

Dated at Dunedin, this thirtieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

J. MACANDREW, Superintendent.

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 shall 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, 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 “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.