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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 one hundred and ninth 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 twenty-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, I intend to demise to the person named in the schedule hereto annexed certain auriferous Crown Lands of alluvial ground, for the term specified in the said schedule.

Given under my hand at Hokitika, this eleventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

H. H. LAHMAN.

SCHEDULE.

Name.—W. Monteith.
Situation.—Old Cemetery Terrace, Ross,
Area.—Ten acres.
Term.—Fifteen years.

Hokitika,
June 26, 1872.

IT is hereby notified for general information, that the undermentioned Mining Lease is cancelled, and the ground is now open for occupation.
Wilson and Co., ten acres, Donoghue’s.

H. H. LAHMAN,
Governor’s Delegate.

County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, June 29, 1872.

THE Chairman of the County Council directs it to be notified for general information, that the seat hitherto occupied by WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Esq., J.P. as a Member of the Grey Board of Health has been vacated, in consequence of his leaving the District.

A. E. TENNANT,
County Secretary.

County Treasury,
Hokitika, July 4, 1872.

PURSUANT to the provisions of "The Auctioneer’s Ordinance, Session III., No. 3," I hereby give notice that the undermentioned persons have taken out Auctioneer’s Licenses for the period ending 30th June, 1873.

William Todd,
Francis Christopher Tabart,
Michael Pollock,
Richard Nancarrow.

T. HORTON,
County Treasurer.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 33, of the 10th of July, 1872.]

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, July 9, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in Her Majesty’s name, summoned HENRY HERMANN LAHMAN, Esq., of Hokitika, in the County of Westland, to the Legislative Council of New Zealand, by Writ of Summons under the Seal of the Colony.

W. GISBORNE.