✨ Mining Drainage District Proclamation and Appointments
Num. 23.
THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1868.
PROCLAMATION.
IN exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf under “The Gold Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1868,” I, James Alexander Bonar, a member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim the district described in the schedule hereto attached to be a Mining Drainage District within the meaning of the said Act, to be called “The Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage District.”
Given under my hand at Hokitika, this twenty-seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JAS. A. BONAR.
SCHEDULE.
Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage District—
Bounded on the east by Donnelly’s Creek; on the north by the Totara River; on the south by the Jones’s Water Race to Swiper’s Gully; thence in a straight line to the ocean beach.
Hokitika,
27th November, 1868.
THE HONOURABLE JAS. A. BONAR directs it to be notified that he has appointed the undermentioned persons to be a Mining Drainage Board under “The Gold Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1868,” for the Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage District.
Joshua Gibson, Storekeeper.
Thomas Tubman, Miner.
Frederick William Morgan, Miner.
Francis Burton, Miner.
J. D. Watson, Miner.
G. S. SALE,
County Secretary.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.
WESTLAND DISTRICT.
VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen.
To MICHAEL CASSIUS, of Hokitika, in the County of Westland, and Colony of New Zealand, Merchant.
GREETING,—Whereas an action is now pending in our Supreme Court of New Zealand, Westland District, between James Miller and Henry Miller (trading under the name, style, or firm of J. and H. Miller), of Hokitika aforesaid, merchants, plaintiffs, and Alexander Joske (trading under the name, style, or firm of A. Joske and Company), of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, wine merchant, defendant. And in order that the plaintiffs may proceed in the said action, we command that you detain and keep, all and singular, the moneys and chattels, bills, bonds, and other property of whatsoever nature in the custody or under your control at the time of the service of this writ, belonging to the above-named Alexander Joske, or to or in which such defendant shall be legally or equitably entitled, or otherwise beneficially interested. And we command you that you and each of you, in your own proper persons, be and appear before such Judge of our said Court as shall be sitting at Hokitika, on Tuesday, the nineteenth day of January next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, and then to be examined touching the premises, and to do and receive what shall then and there be considered of you in that behalf, and this you shall in no wise omit.
WITNESS—CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM RICHMOND, Esquire, Judge at Hokitika of our Supreme Court of New Zealand, this twenty-fifth day of November, 1868.
This writ was issued by GEORGE WILLIAM HARVEY, of Hamilton Street, Hokitika, Solicitor for the plaintiffs within named.
Printed by JAMES BROWN and JOSEPH PHILIP KLEIN, authorized printers for the time being for the “County of Westland Gazette.”
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1868, No 23
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🗺️ Proclamation of Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage District
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey27 November 1868
Gold Mining, Drainage District, Proclamation, Jones’s Flat
- James Alexander Bonar, Member of the Legislative Council
🗺️ Appointment of Mining Drainage Board
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey27 November 1868
Mining Drainage Board, Appointments, Jones’s Flat
- Joshua Gibson, Appointed to Mining Drainage Board
- Thomas Tubman, Appointed to Mining Drainage Board
- Frederick William Morgan, Appointed to Mining Drainage Board
- Francis Burton, Appointed to Mining Drainage Board
- J. D. Watson, Appointed to Mining Drainage Board
- J. D. Watson, County Secretary
⚖️ Supreme Court Writ for Detention of Property
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement25 November 1868
Supreme Court, Writ, Detention of Property, Hokitika
- Michael Cassius, Subject of writ for detention of property
- James Miller, Plaintiff in Supreme Court action
- Henry Miller, Plaintiff in Supreme Court action
- Alexander Joske, Defendant in Supreme Court action
- Christopher William Richmond, Judge of the Supreme Court
- George William Harvey, Solicitor for the plaintiffs