[Province of Otago]

II. If more than the requisite number of candidates are nominated, a poll shall take place on Thursday, the 16th October, from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m., and after the latter hour no further vote shall be allowed to be recorded; and the candidates in whose favor the greatest number of votes shall have been recorded at the said hour of 4 p.m., (or in the event of there not being more than the requisite number, then the candidates nominated,) shall, as soon thereafter as may be, be declared by the Warden or other officer to have been duly elected for the ensuing six months.

III. No person shall be entitled to be so nominated, nor shall any person be entitled so to nominate, or to second the nomination of any candidate, unless he shall be possessed of one or other of the qualifications set forth and specified in Regulation No. 5 of the said Regulations.

IV. If any person shall improperly be elected as a member of the Board of Wardens, he not being duly and lawfully possessed of the qualification aforesaid at the time of election, it shall be in the power of the Board, upon due inquiry into all the circumstances of the case, to declare by a majority of votes that such election is null and void, and thereupon an election shall be held when and where, and as may be determined by the Board, for filling up the deficiency caused by such declaration.

V. Voters must attend in person to record their vote, and the document by virtue whereof they claim to vote must be produced to the Warden or presiding officer, who after recording the vote shall cause to be written upon some conspicuous part thereof the words “Voted, October 16th, 1873,” together with his signature or initials.

VI. The poll (if taken) will be held at the Courthouse at Lawrence.

VII. The names of all the candidates nominated shall be advertised in the local papers, and set forth in a Notice affixed to the front of the Court House.

J. T. BOYD,
Deputy-Superintendent.

Given under my hand this
16th day of September, 1873.

AT THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, DUNEDIN,

this tenth day of September, 1873.

Present:
His Honor the Deputy-Superintendent,
Horace Bastings, and
Griffon Kirk Tucker, Esquires.

WHEREAS by Proclamation bearing date the 23rd day of June, 1868, made by the Superintendent of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province, and published in the Otago Provincial Gazette, No.553, under the hand of the said Superintendent of the Province of Otago, and under the public seal of the said Province; certain Regulations were made for the disposing of Stock upon the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Otago Gold Field. And whereas by Proclamation bearing date the 6th day of October, 1868, made by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, as aforesaid; and published in the Otago Provincial Gazette, No. 572 as aforesaid, the said Regulations of the 23rd day of June, 1868, were altered and amended: And whereas it is expedient to further amend the said Regulations in so far as they relate to the Wakatipu District:

Now therefore His Honor, John Theodore Thomas Boyd, Esquire, Deputy-Superintendent of the said Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province, doth by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to the Executive Government of the Province of Otago in that behalf, hereby revoke the Regulations numbered 3, 4, 5, 6, and amend Regulations numbered 13 and 16 of the said Regulations so made and published on the 23rd day of June, 1868, so far only as the same apply to the said Wakatipu District, and doth make the Regulations following in lieu thereof as regards the said Wakatipu District, (that is to say)—

DESTRUCTIVE REGULATIONS.

Otago Gold Fields, Wakatipu District.

1. The Receiver of Gold Revenue at Queenstown, and the Receiver of Gold Revenue at Arrowtown, in the said Wakatipu District, shall have all the powers and exercise all the functions hitherto held and exercised by the Board of Wardens for the said District.

2. Sections 13 and 16 of the said Regulations of the 28th day of June, 1868, shall be read and construed as if the words “Receiver of Gold Revenue” had been originally inserted in the place of the words “Board of Wardens.”

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Executive Council of the Province of Otago.

PROCLAMATION.

Setting apart Lands in the Tuapeka West District for alienation on deferred payments.

By His Honor John Theodore Thomas Boyd, Esquire, Deputy Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by the forty-seventh section of “The Otago Waste Lands Act 1872,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, from time to time by Proclamation, to be published in the Provincial Gazette, to set apart any Province, districts or blocks of land, within which licenses to occupy land, and leases thereof on deferred payments may be granted. And whereas the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago has recommended the Superintendent of the said Province to set apart the lands specified in the Schedule hereto for alienation on deferred payments.

Now therefore I, John Theodore Thomas Boyd, Deputy Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council, as aforesaid, do hereby, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by “The Otago Waste Lands Act 1872,” proclaim and declare that I have set apart and do hereby set apart from the date hereof, all those two several pieces or parcels of land, containing by estimation 2600 acres, and 2400 acres, more or less, situate in the Tuapeka West District; being parts of blocks numbered respectively II, III, and V on the map of the said district, specified in the Schedule hereto as a district, within which licenses to occupy land and leases thereof on deferred payments may be granted.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of unsurveyed land in the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by estimation two thousand six hundred (2600) acres, more or less; situate in Tuapeka west district, being part of blocks numbered respectively II (1) and five (V) on the map of the said district: bounded towards the north by other part of block numbered II seven thousand four hundred and thirty (7430) links; towards the east by other parts of the said blocks, thirty-five thousand (35,000) links; towards the south by other part of the said block V, seven thousand four hundred and thirty (7430) links; and towards the west by blocks numbered respectively IV and VII, thirty-five thousand (35,000) links.

All that parcel of unsurveyed land in the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by estimation two thousand four hundred (2400) acres, more or less, situate in Tuapeka west district, being part of blocks numbered respectively two (II) and three (III) on the map of the said district: bounded towards the north-west by other parts of the said blocks, twenty thousand (20,000) links; towards the east by a road line and properties right, thirty-five thousand eight hundred (35,800) links; towards the south by other parts of the said blocks, seventeen thousand (17,600) links; and towards the west by other parts of the said block numbered II, six thousand eight hundred (6800) links.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, this sixteenth day of September, 1873.

J. T. BOYD,
Deputy-Superintendent.

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 over the area described in the schedule hereto.