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IN pursuance of the provisions of sections
eighty and eighty-one of "The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870," the Waste
Lands Board have reserved from public sale
the lands described in the schedule hereunto
annexed, to be granted in payment for public
works.

G. G. FITZGERALD,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Lands
Board.

SCHEDULE.

Block LXXX. (Rural.)

GREY DISTRICT.

Fifty acres more or less; bounded on the east
by the east boundary of Block LXXX;
on the southward by section No. 1544; on
the westward by section No. 1528; and on
the northward by a line to include the
quantity; subject to necessary reserves and
gold workings.

Two hundred and fifty acres more or less;
bounded on the north by section 1547; on
the west by a road east of Omotumotu Creek;
on the east by a line generally parallel to and
distant forty chains from the said road; and
on the south by a line to include the quantity;
subject to necessary reserves and gold
workings.

Hokitika, April 25, 1873.

IT is hereby notified for general information
that, in pursuance of the powers vested
in me under the Gold Mining Lease Regulations, I hereby declare that the undermentioned leases are cancelled, and that the
ground is now open for occupation.

Name—John M’Gaffin and Co.
Area—311 yards by 156 yards.
Situation—Left-hand Branch, Donnelly’s
Creek.

Name—Excelsior Gold Mining Company.
Area—10 acres.
Situation—Ross.

H. L. ROBINSON,
Governor’s Delegate.

PARTICULARS of the Estates of Deceased Persons which have been placed
under the charge of James Meacham Batham,
Esq., Curator of the Estates of Deceased
Persons, during the month of March, 1873:—

Nil.

J. M. BATHAM,
Curator, Westland District.

Dated the 1st day of April, 1873.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No.
22, of the 10th of April, 1873.]

Medical Referee Appointed.

Government Annuities Office,
Wellington, April 1, 1873.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentleman to be a Medical
Referee under "The Government Annuities
Act, 1869," vice, Thomas Henry Garland,
Esq., resigned:—

HENRY WIDENHAM MAUNSELL, Esq.,
Hokitika.

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No.
22, of the 10th of April, 1873.]

Appointing a Warden of Westland Gold Fields.

G. F. ARNEY, Administrator of the
Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington,
this thirty-first day of March, 1873.

Present:

THE HONORABLE THE PREMIER AND COLONIAL SECRETARY, PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act,
1866," it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, from time to time,
to constitute for any Gold Field, or for any
part thereof, Warden’s Courts for the
administration of Justice therein, and to
appoint Wardens of such Courts with power
to act alone or with assessors, and in such
manner, and to exercise all or any of the
powers thereinafter mentioned as the Governor shall think fit to direct: Now, therefore,
His Excellency the Administrator of the
Government, by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, doth hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in
him for this purpose, appoint

GERARD GEORGE FITZGERALD, Esq.,

to be a Warden of all Wardens’ Courts now
constituted or hereafter to be constituted
within the Gold Fields of the County of
Westland, with power to him to act alone or
with Assessors, and to exercise all or any of