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OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

( PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY )

Vol. XIX. Wednesday : July 28, 1875. No. 976

PROCLAMATION.

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

WHEREAS by section 10 of the "Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871, Amendment Ordinance, 1874," it is provided that if from any cause whatever the persons entitled to vote at any election for any district, or for any sub-division of any district, shall fail or neglect to hold an election of members of the District Board of such district on the day appointed by the said Ordinance for that purpose, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, by proclamation in the Gazette, to appoint a day for the holding of such election :

Now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the said section, and of every other power and authority enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare Saturday the 31st day of July, 1875, to be the day for holding an election of members of the Kuri Bush Road Board, for the Kurimoto sub-division of the said District.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this 20th day of July, 1875.

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

PROCLAMATION.

Setting apart Crown Lands in the Otago Gold Field for the purpose of Granting Agricultural Leases.

By his Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in Council.

WHEREAS by the 33rd section of the "Gold Fields Act 1866," it is enacted amongst other things that it shall be lawful for the Governor to cause Crown Lands situate within a Gold Field to be selected and set apart for the purpose of granting Agricultural Leases thereon and therefor: And whereas Thomas Dick, Esquire, then the 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 Council 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 :