CORPORATION OF INVERCARGILL.

AUCTIONEERS' LICENSES.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to the directions of His Honor the Superintendent, Auctioneers' Licenses for the year ending 13th January, 1875, have been issued by me to

• David Macrorie, Albion Yard.
• George Frederick Martin, Dee-street.
• Henry Elias Osborne, Esk-street.

W. B. SCANDRETT,
Collector to the Corporation of Invercargill.

March 31st, 1874.

WHALING BONUS, £500.

THE Provincial Government will pay £250 by way of Bonus to the first vessel which leaves the Province fully equipped for a whaling cruise; also £250 on her returning to the Province with a cargo of oil. Provided that such vessel is owned in, and hails from, a port within the Province. Vessel not to be under 150 tons. Provided also that she carries at least five boys as apprentices. Bonus will be paid on production of certificate from the Harbor Master that these provisions have been complied with.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, March 12th, 1874.)

Land withdrawn from Otago Gold Field.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time subsequent to the proclamation of a gold field, to withdraw by Proclamation therefrom any Crown lands which he may deem it necessary to withdraw, and that such lands shall henceforth be dealt with, sold, occupied, and disposed of under any law or laws for the time being in force regulating the sale, occupation, or disposal, or in any way affecting or relating to the management or dealing with the Crown lands within the Province in which such gold field is situate, in like manner in every respect as though such lands had never been comprised in any proclaimed gold field:

Now, therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority for this purpose vested in me, do hereby withdraw from the Otago Gold Field, proclaimed on the twenty ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven, so much of the parcels of land described in the Schedule hereto as are included within the said gold field.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement one rood and thirty and two-tenths poles (1r. 30 2p.), more or less, situated in the town of Ophir, being sections numbered one (1) and two (2), Block two (II.) on the map of the said town; bounded towards the North by Swindon Street, two hundred (200) links; towards the East by section numbered three (3), two hundred and twenty (220) links; towards the South by a street line two hundred (200) links; and towards the West by a street line two hundred and twenty (220) links.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

G. MAURICE O’RORKE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

(From the New Zealand Gazette, March 12th, 1874.)

Districts under "The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1858."

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

Now therefore, I, the Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said recited Act, do hereby revoke the said Proclamations so far as relates to Stewart's Island District; and do proclaim and declare that the territory formerly comprised within such district shall be and is hereby divided, for the purposes of the said Act, into two districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follows:

Ruapuke District.

The Island of Ruapuke.

Stewart's Island District.

Stewart's Island, Sclanders' Island, and adjacent Islands, excepting the Island of Ruapuke.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation and take effect on the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

(From the New Zealand Gazette, March 12th, 1874.)

Districts under "The Registration Act, 1858."

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

Now therefore, I, the Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said recited Act, do hereby revoke the said Proclamation so far as relates to "Stewart's Island District," and do proclaim and declare that the territory formerly comprised within such district shall be and is hereby divided, for the purposes of the said Act, into two districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follows:

Ruapuke District.

The Island of Ruapuke.

Stewart's Island District.

Stewart's Island, Sclanders' Island, and adjacent Islands, excepting the Island of Ruapuke.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation and take effect on the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.