published in the Provincial Government Gazette of the
Province of Otago aforesaid (Number 772) of the
ninth day of January one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one certain regulations were made under said
Sec. XI of the said Act for the said Otago Gold Field:
And whereas it is expedient to revoke Section 22 of
Regulation 12 of the said Regulations so made by the
said Order in Council of the said eighth day of
December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one:

Now therefore His Honor James Macandrew Super-
intendent 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 of Otago in this behalf doth hereby order
that the said Regulation being Section No. 22 of Regu-
lation 12 of the said Regulations so made by the said
Order in Council of the said eighth day of December
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one shall from
and after the day of the date hereof be revoked.

Alex. Willis,
Clerk to the Executive Council
of the Province of Otago.

James Macandrew, Superintendent

of the Province of Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin
the eighth day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two.

Present:
His Honor the SUPERINTENDENT,
Donald Reid, Esquire,
James Benn Bradshaw, Esquire, and
John Bathgate, Esquire,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of
Otago, being also members of the Provincial
Council of the said Province.

WHEREAS Thomas Dick Esquire then Superin-
tendent 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
the territory therein described to be a Gold Field,
under the provisions of the "Gold Fields Act 1866"
to be called the "Otago Gold Field." And whereas
the limits of the said Gold Field have from time to
time been altered: 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 limita-
tions 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 Superin-
tendent 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 Govern-
ment 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
twenty-ninth section of the "Gold Fields Act 1866" it
is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor
from time to time to make regulations prescribing the
mode in which applications may be made for leases of
land for agricultural purposes the quantity of land
which shall and may be granted in a lease in
any particular block the amount of deposit to be
paid by any applicant therefor and by any objector
thereto the terms and conditions upon which such
leases may be held occupied assigned transferred for-
feited and cancelled the amount of rent payable there-
for and the times and places of payment the conditions
upon and the manner in which entry to search for gold
or for any metal or mineral upon any land so leased
may be authorised and the terms and conditions upon
which holders of miners' rights may be permitted to
mine upon land the lease for which shall have been
determined of account of its auriferous character and
such regulations from time to time to amend alter and
revoke: And whereas James Macandrew Esquire Super-
intendent of the Province of Otago by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Province did by Proclamation dated the eighth day of
December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one
and published in the Otago Provincial Government
Gazette (No. 772) on the ninth day of January one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one make certain
regulations for the purposes specified in the said
thirty-ninth section of the said Act: And whereas it is
expedient to revoke Regulation No. 23 of the Regula-
tions so made as aforesaid:

Now therefore His Honor James Macandrew Super-
intendent 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 1866" and the "Gold
Fields Act Amendment Act 1867" and of every other power
in anywise enabling him in this behalf doth hereby order
that the said Regulation No. 23 of the said Regulations
of the said eighth day of December one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one shall from and after the day
of the date hereof be revoked.

Alex. Willis,
Clerk to the Executive Council
of the Province of Otago.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

IN Conformity to the 29th Section of the "Gold
Fields Act 1866," and to the Regulations made
under that Act and the Gold Fields Acts Amendment
Acts of 1867, 1868, and 1869, for the granting of
leases for gold mining purposes within the Province
of Otago, it is hereby notified that it is intended to grant
a lease for gold mining purposes of Crown Lands to the
applicant specified in the Annexed Schedule, unless
there shall be valid objections against granting such
lease.

Objections to the granting of such lease, stating the
grounds of objection, must be made in writing and
lodged with the Warden, at Queenstown, on or before
the 5th day of March, 1872.