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PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the twenty-ninth section of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, to demise for mining purposes, to any person, for any term not exceeding fifteen years from the making of the lease, any auriferous Crown Lands not exceeding ten acres in the whole of alluvial ground, or an area of 400 yards by 200 yards on a quartz reef, and to grant sites for machinery and any necessary easements for the purposes aforesaid, subject nevertheless to the conditions or provisions in the said section contained:

And whereas, by the 109th section of the said Act, it is enacted 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 such person as the Governor may think fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor by the said Act, except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, forty, 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 whereas, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, did, on the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, delegate unto me, Henry Hermann Lahman, Chairman of the County Council of Westland, all the powers vested in him by the twenty-ninth section of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866:"

Now, therefore, I, Henry Hermann Lahman, Chairman of the County Council of Westland, in exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf, do hereby give notice that on the eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, I intend to demise to the persons named in the schedule hereto annexed certain auriferous Crown Lands of alluvial ground for the terms specified in the said schedule, subject to reserves and existing rights.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

H. H. LAHMAN.

Name.—Hap-Hazard Gold Mining Co.
Area.—10 acres.
Situation.—German Gully, Totara.
Term.—Fifteen Years.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 16, of the 4th April, 1872.]

Treasury,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of their offices as Trustees of the Hokitika Savings Bank, viz.:

The Hon. James Alexander Bonar;
Samuel Boyle, Esq.; and
Walter Scott Reid, Esq.

W. GISBORNE.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 16, of the 4th April, 1872.]

Treasury,
Wellington, April 2, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

The Hon. James Alexander Bonar
to be Manager of the Hokitika Savings Bank, in the room of Archibald Bonar, Esq., deceased.

W. GISBORNE.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 16, of the 4th April, 1872.]

Treasury,
Wellington, April 2, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be additional Trustees of the Hokitika Savings Bank, viz.:

George Benning, Esq.;
William Moses Forsyth, Esq.;
George William Harvey, Esq.;
Francis Christopher Tabart, Esq.; and
William Todd, Esq.

W. GISBORNE.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 16, of the 4th April, 1872.]

Treasury,
Wellington, March 28, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

John McBeth, Junr., Esq.,
to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the District of Westland.

W. GISBORNE.