3. The said Ryan and party shall pay a yearly rent of one pound (£1) per acre, in half-yearly payments.

4. The said Ryan and party shall have no right to sell or otherwise dispose of any part of the claim. This condition is not to affect the right to sell or dispose of shares.

5. The said Ryan and party shall comply with the directions of the Warden of the District as regards the working of the claim.

6. Clauses 25 and 29 of the Mining Lease Regulations, 1871, to be complied with by Ryan and party.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this fourteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

H. H. LAHMAN.

Hokitika, 14th November, 1871.

In pursuance of the powers delegated to me under "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," I hereby make the following regulation in addition to those made on the 18th September, 1871, and published in The County of Westland Gazette, No. 21, of the 18th September, 1871.

H. H. LAHMAN,
Governor’s Delegate.

Principal Land Office of the said County, in the Town of Hokitika:

And whereas by the said recited Act it is among other things enacted that the Principal Land Office of the said County shall be kept at the Town of Hokitika, and the Waste Land Board shall sit there, and at certain stated times to be determined from time to time by the Governor as therein mentioned, and shall also sit for special purposes at such places and at such times as the Governor shall from time to time direct:

And whereas it is expedient to appoint a special day for the sitting of the said Board:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority vested in me in that behalf by "The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870," do hereby fix and determine that a special sitting of the Waste Lands Board for the County of Westland shall be held at the Warden’s Court, in the Town of Stafford, on the twenty-seventh day of November next ensuing; at the hour of Noon, for the purpose of the sale of lands in the said Town of Stafford.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 56, of the 20th October 1871.]

14.—These Regulations to Apply to Holders of Existing Water Rights.

The owner of any water race existing at the time of the coming into operation of these Regulations shall be entitled to apply for a license hereunder upon complying with the same preliminaries as are specified for the granting of a license for a new race to be constructed: Provided that such application for the granting or refusing of such license to the owner of such existing water race shall not in any way affect the priority of water rights to which such owner was theretofore entitled.

[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 57, of the 5th October, 1871.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS on the twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in pursuance of the powers vested in the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand by "The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870," certain days were appointed to be the days on which the Waste Lands Board of the County of Westland should sit at the Principal Land Office of the said County, in the Town of Hokitika:

And whereas by the said recited Act it is among other things enacted that the Principal Land Office of the said County shall be kept at the Town of Hokitika, and the Waste Land Board shall also sit for special purposes at such places and at such times as the Governor shall from time to time direct:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the power in me vested by "The Customs Regulation Act, 1858," do hereby annul the order dated the 8th day of March, 1865, in which the limits of the legal Landing-place for the port of Greymouth were set out and appointed, and in lieu thereof do declare and appoint that, from the day of the date hereof, Mawhera Quay, commencing one hundred yards eastward from the Custom...

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 56, of the 20th October 1871.]