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NOTICE.

The following Town Sections will be sold by auction at the Land Office on Saturday, the 30th day of April, at 12 o'clock:—

Section 21, Block IV., Wallacetown
" 10, " VIII., "
" 11, " VIII., "
" 16, " VIII., "
" 17, " VIII., "

WILLIAM WOOD,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
28th March, 1870.

NOTICE.

The piece of land adjoining the Lowther Township, Eyre District, containing 50 acres more or less, temporarily excluded from sale during the survey of the adjoining purchases, will be re-open for application as Waste Lands of the Crown, on and after the 22nd day of April next.

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
March 21st, 1870.

NOTICE.

The undermentioned occupiers of land licensed to depasture cattle within Jacobs River Hundred have been elected Wardens of the said Hundred for the current year:—

George Anderson
William Boyd
John Highet
John Brook.

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
4th April, 1870.

NOTICE.

The undermentioned occupiers of land licensed to depasture cattle within the New River Hundred have been elected Wardens of the said Hundred for the current year:—

Wm. Lawrence
Alfred Beaven
William Russel
David Wallace
William Boyd.

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
4th April, 1870.

NOTICE.

The following occupiers of land in Forest Hill Hundred have been licensed to depasture cattle within the said Hundred during the current year:—

Jas. Kirkpatrick
Thos. Fraser
Thos. M’Lean
John Hamilton
Finlay M’Rae

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
4th April, 1870.

NOTICE.

The following occupiers of land in Oteramika Hundred have been licensed to depasture cattle in the said Hundred during the current year:—

Proctor Nicholson
Peter M’Kay
James H. Wilson
Thos. Denniston
John Drake
James Lawson

John Birss
Geo. F. Richardson
Wm. Marten
Wm. Copland
Wm. L. Kerr
John F. Dundas.

WALTER H. PEARSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
4th April, 1870.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Auckland, the twenty-first day of February, 1870.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or to such other person as the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the said Act, except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven thereof, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit, and in like manner to alter or revoke any such powers:

And whereas it is further provided that whenever the Governor shall have delegated to the Superintendent of any Province all or any of the aforesaid powers, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, to appoint and declare that all costs, charges, and expenses, incident to the management and administration of the Gold Fields within such Province shall be regulated by Acts or Ordinances to be passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of such Province:

And whereas by an instrument in writing, bearing date the seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, issued under the Seal of the Colony, the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, and in exercise of the before-recited power, hath delegated to the Superintendent of the Province of Southland all the aforesaid powers, excepting those before recited to be excepted, to hold and exercise the said powers within the Province aforesaid:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority for this purpose by the said Act conferred, doth hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, appoint and declare that all the costs, charges, and expenses incident to the management and administration of the Gold Fields within the aforesaid Province, shall be regulated by Acts to be passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council thereof.

HENRY D. PITT, Capt., R.A.,
Private Secretary.

Crown Lands Office,
(for Clerk of the Executive Council).