OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY).

Vol. XX. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1876. No. 1012.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the 10th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. Present—His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent, Donald Reid and James Green, Esquires.

WHEREAS by Proclamation bearing date the 23rd of June, 1868, made by the Superintendent of the Province 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 depasturing 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 regulations of the 23rd day of June, 1868, were altered and amended: And whereas it is expedient to further amend the said regulations, so far as they relate to the Mount Benger District as described in the Otago Provincial Gazette, No. 595, of the 17th February, 1869.

Now, therefore, his Honor, James Macandrew, Esq., 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 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the said regulations so made and published on the 23rd day of June, 1868, and regulation numbered 23 of the said regulations so made and published on the 6th day of October, 1868, so far only as the same apply to the said Mount Benger District, and doth make the regulations following in lieu thereof as regards the said Mount Benger District (that is to say):

DEPASTURING REGULATIONS.

Otago Gold Fields—Mount Benger District.

1. The Mayor and Councillors of the Municipal Corporation of Roxburgh for the time being, and Albert Birch, William Westcott, Thomas Philip, Michell and Richard Bennetts, or such other persons as the Superintendent may from time to time appoint, shall be, and are hereby appointed, the Board of Wardens for the said Mount Benger District, as the same is described in the Schedule to the said regulations of the 23rd day of June, 1868, and shall have all the powers conferred on Board of Wardens by the Depasturing Regulations of the 23rd day of June and the 6th day of October, 1868, respectively.

2. The Mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Roxburgh shall be the Chairman of the Board of Wardens, and shall have a casting vote in case of equality.

3. The Inspector of Sheep and the Receiver of Revenue at Clyde for the time being shall be and are hereby appointed to carry out the said Depasturing regulations in the said Mount Benger District.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

FRIDAY, 24TH MARCH, 1876.

TAPANUI HUNDRED.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Sections will be open for application on deferred payments on Friday, the 24th day of March, 1876.

Application must be made by the applicant in person, at any Land Office in the Province, and a deposit of 1s. 6d. per acre paid at the time of making the application, being the first half-year’s occupation fee. The purchase money is payable at the rate of 3s. per acre per annum for ten years.

Plans to be seen, and lithographs obtained, at the Land Offices at Dunedin and at Lawrence, on and after the 1st of March.

Sections 4, 11, 12, and 14, Block XIV., Crookston District.