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PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.

Acts left to their operation.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 5th September, 1864.

THE following Ordinances, passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Wellington, intituled

The Patent Slip Act, 1864,
The Patent Slip Site Act, 1864,
An Act to provide for the Branding of Horses, Session XI., No. 5,
The Scab Amendment Act, 1864, and
The Appropriation Act, 1864-5,

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to leave the same to their operation.

WILLIAM FOX.

£1000 Reward.

AVAILABLE GOLD FIELD.

Superintendent’s Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1864.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Provincial Government of Wellington will award a sum or sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole the amount of One Thousand Pounds Sterling, payable to any one person, or distributable rateably amongst any number of persons, who shall discover and make known to the Government the existence of an available Gold field within the Province of Wellington.

All claims for the payment of this Reward, or any portion of it, are to be sent in to the Government, addressed to the Provincial Secretary in the first instance, by whom they will be afterwards referred to the decision of a Commission consisting of three persons, one to be named by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and two by the Superintendent.

By “Available Gold Field” is meant a district within which Gold shall be judged by the Commissioners to exist capable of affording employment to a body of not less than six hundred (600) diggers at a remunerative rate of wages.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

as hereinafter more particularly described, to be made by Commissioner (to be appointed in that behalf by Warrant under the Governor’s hand):

And whereas Paul Stone, a person of the Native Race, died on or about the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, entitled to two pieces of land in the Province of Wellington, described in the Schedule hereto, for which crown grants to him in fee simple ought to have been issued in his life time but were not issued, and whereas it is expedient that enquiry should be made who are the persons respectively entitled to the said pieces of land:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, in pursuance of the power and authority for this purpose given to me by the said Act, do hereby appoint

GEORGE FREDERICK SWAINSON, Esq.,

of Wellington, to be a Commissioner under the said Act, with the powers and duties comprised in and imposed by the said Act, in reference to the said pieces of land and each of them.

Given under my hand at Government House, at Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, this second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

WILLIAM FOX.

SCHEDULE.

WAIRARAPA DISTRICT.

Opaki Block, Section No. 30.—44 Acres.

Bounded towards the North East by the Huamahanga River, towards the South East and South West by crown land, two thousand seven hundred (2,700) links, and one thousand seven hundred (1,700) links respectively; and towards the North West by section No. 40, two thousand six hundred (2,600) links.

WAIRARAPA DISTRICT.

Opaki Block, Section No. 34.—210 acres.

Bounded towards the North East by section No. 33, three thousand (3000) links; towards the South East by section No. 33, by Crown land, and by section No. 10, seven thousand (7000) links; towards the South West by section No. 10, and by Crown land, three thousand (3000) links; and towards the North West by Crown land, and by section No. 35, seven thousand (7000) links.