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 twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

H. L. ROBINSON.

Name of Lessee—M. Cassius.
Situation—Ross.
Area—8a. 3r. 34p.
Term of Lease—Fifteen years.

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-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, delegate unto me, Henry Lee Robinson, 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 Lee Robinson, 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 thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, I intend to demise to the persons 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

H. L. ROBINSON.

Name of Lessee—Phillip Williams & Co.
Situation—Red Jack’s.
Area—Ten acres.
Term of Lease—Fifteen years.

County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, March 11, 1873.

It is hereby notified for general information, that the undermentioned Tenders for Supplies to the County Government, for the six months ending 31st July, 1873, have been accepted by the County Council.

A. E. TENNANT,
Secretary to the Council.

RATIONS.—GAOL.

JAMES LINTON.

No. 1—Male, 9½d.; female, 6d. No. 2—Male, 5½d.; female, 5d. No. 3—Male, 3½d.; female, 3d. No. 4—Male, 3½d.; female, 5d. No. 5—Male, 5d.; female, 5d.

EXTRA.

JAMES LINTON.

Beef, 3d.; ditto (roast), 4½d.; mutton, 4d.; mince meat, 4d.; bread, 2½d.; oatmeal, 2½d.; potatoes, 7s. 6d.; suet, 4d.; tea, 2s. 2d.; coffee, 1s. 3d.; cocoa, 1s. 5½d.; sugar, 5½d.; butter, 9d.; cheese, 8d.; flour, 2d.; eggs, 1s. 6d.; raisins, 6d.; arrowroot, 7d.; sago, 4½d.; rice, 3½d.; pepper, 10d.; mustard, 10d.; soap, 3½d.; salt, 1d.; tobacco, 4s. 3d.; pipes, 6d.; soda (washing), 1½d.; whiting, 1¼d.; brandy, 5s.; port wine, 2s. 6d.; sherry, 2s. 6d.; porter, 13s. 3d.; gin, 3s. 6d.; ale, 12s.; milk, 8d.; vestas, 2s.

DRAPERY.

JAMES MULLIGAN AND CO.

Grey striped ticking, 1s. 3d. per yard; grey wincey, 1s. 4d. per yard; army rugs,