✨ Land Reservations, Auctions, Appointments
Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 26th September, 1866.
IT is hereby notified that the portions of ground as specified below, have been temporarily Reserved under Clause XVI., of the Southland Waste Lands Act, 1865.
John P. Taylor,
Superintendent.
SHEEP RESERVE.
N Run No. 143, containing 1000 acres more or less. Bounded on the North by the Morley Creek, on the West by a line running due South in continuation of West boundary of the Coal Reserve on Run 143b, towards the North-east and South-east by lines as fenced, and on the South by an East and West line, to include the required acreage.
SCHOOL RESERVE.
CONTAINING 5 acres. Bounded towards the North-west by a line being the continuation in a southerly direction of the West side of road between Sections 9 and 10, Block XII., Jacobs’ River Hundred, towards the North-east by the Yellow Bluff Road, towards the South-east by a road line parallel to and 7 chains distant from the first mentioned boundary, towards the Southwest by a line at right angles to the last mentioned road, to include the required acreage.
IT is hereby notified that the Timber on the Lands mentioned below, will be Sold by Auction, on the Sixth Day of November next, at Twelve o’clock noon, at the Land Office, Invercargill, viz.:
140 ACRES at Heddon Bush, in 28 sections of about 5 Acres each, at an upset price of £5 per acre.
10 ACRES in Makarewa Bush, east of and adjoining John Murdoch’s application, at an upset price of £3 per acre.
John P. Taylor,
Superintendent.
Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 5th Oct., 1866.
G. Grey, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of September, 1866.
Present:
His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to appoint Wardens as Judges of Wardens’ Courts for any gold field, or for any part thereof, for the administration of justice therein, with power to act alone or with Assessors or Juries, and in such manner, and to exercise all or any of the powers hereinafter mentioned, as the Governor shall think fit to direct;
Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby appoint the person undermentioned, that is to say—
Henry Rogers Esq., J.P.,
to be a Warden and Judge of all Wardens’ Courts now constituted or hereafter to be constituted within the Pahia and Longwood Gold Fields District of the Province of Southland, with power to him to act alone or with Assessors or Juries, and to exercise all or any of the powers subsisting and mentioned in the twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first, thirty-fourth, and fifty-seventh sections of “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” and all other powers, duties, and authorities by “The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act 1863,” or “The Gold Fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865,” vested in or imposed on Judges of Wardens’ Courts.
Foster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 11th September, 1866.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
Henry Rogers, Esq., J.P.,
of Waiau, in the Province of Southland,
to be a Resident Magistrate.
E. W. Stafford.
Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Southland, by Keeson and Co., of Invercargill N. Z., Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.
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Temporary Reservation of Land
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🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey26 September 1866
Land Reservation, Southland Waste Lands Act, Sheep Reserve, School Reserve
- John P. Taylor, Superintendent
🗺️ Timber Auction Notice
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey5 October 1866
Timber Auction, Heddon Bush, Makarewa Bush, Invercargill
- John Murdoch, Adjacent land application
- John P. Taylor, Superintendent
⚖️ Appointment of Gold Fields Warden
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement25 September 1866
Gold Fields Act, Warden Appointment, Pahia, Longwood
- Henry Rogers (Esquire, J.P.), Appointed Warden and Judge
- G. Grey, Governor
- Foster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council
⚖️ Appointment of Resident Magistrate
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement11 September 1866
Resident Magistrate, Waiau, Southland
- Henry Rogers (Esquire, J.P.), Appointed Resident Magistrate
- E. W. Stafford
Southland Provincial Gazette 1866, No 19