OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY).

VOL XX.

DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.

No. 1039.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

IN conformity to the 9th section of the “Gold
Fields Act, 1866,” and to the Regulations made
under that Act and the Gold Yields Act 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 St. Bathans on or before the
17th day of September, 1876.

Copy of the application made, and plans annexed,
may be seen at the Warden’s Office at St. Bathans.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this 4th day of
September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.

GEORGE TURNBULL,
Deputy-Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

W. and J. Thurlow, on behalf of the Milton
Company, for 8 acres of land more or less, as the same
may be found after survey to be within the pegs and
trenches of the applicants, situated on top of spur
above Dongee’s old farm, Shepherds Hut Creek.

PROCLAMATION
*Of the Municipality of Avenal.

By His Honor George Turnbull, Esquire, Deputy-
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superinten-
dent and Provincial Council of the Pro-
vince of Otago, intituled “An Ordinance to
amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordi-
nance, 1865,” and by the “Otago Municipal
Corporations Ordinance, 1875,” it is enacted that
it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of
Otago, with the advice of his Executive Council, on
the petition of not less than fifty persons, comprising
a majority of the householders resident in any town-
ship, or any two or more townships, distant not more
than two miles from a common centre within the
Province, to extend the provisions of the “Otago
Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” to such
township or townships by such name or incorporation
as he shall deem fit, and notwithstanding that such
township, or in the case of two townships, either or
both of them is or are included in a Road District,
with such modification as to the names and numbers
of the members of such proposed Corporation, and the
office-bearers thereof, and any other municipal matters
and regulations as shall seem to such Superintendent
and his Executive Council suitable for the area and
population of such Municipality; and, in accordance
with such petition or otherwise, shall define the boun-
daries of the Municipality so created, and declare the
number of Wards into which such Municipality may
be divided, and define the boundaries of such Wards
respectively, and declare which of the provisions of the
said Ordinance shall be applicable to and within the
limits of such Municipality: And whereas a petition
of not less than fifty persons, comprising a majority of
the householders resident in the townships of Harrisville
and Harewood, in the said Province of Otago, has
been presented to me, George Turnbull, as Deputy-
Superintendent of the said Province, praying that the
provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations
Ordinance, 1865,” may be extended to the said town-
ships: Now, therefore I, George Turnbull, Deputy-
Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice
of my Executive Council, and in exercise and pursu-
ance of the powers and authority vested in me in this
behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and
after the day of the date hereof, the provisions of the
said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance,
1865,” specified in the first schedule hereto, shall
extend to the said townships of Harrisville and
Harewood, under the name of the Corporation of the
town of Avenal, and shall be applicable to and within
the Municipality hereby created. And I do, with the
advice of my said Executive Council, proclaim
and declare that such of the said provisions as are con-
tained in the sections of the said last-mentioned
Ordinance, specified in the first column of the second
schedule hereto, shall extend to the said townships
and be applicable to the Municipality hereby created,
with and subject to the respective modifications con-
tained herein, and in the second column of the said