34 PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

from and after the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, the boundaries of the district within which the District Court of the County of Westland should be held should be altered, and that thenceforth the boundaries thereof should be the boundaries set forth in the Second Schedule thereunder written: And whereas it is expedient to alter the local name by which the said Court shall be designated:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, the local name of the said Court shall be altered, and thenceforth the local name whereby the said District Court shall be designated shall be

"THE DISTRICT COURT OF WESTLAND SOUTH."

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

G. MAURICE O’RORKE,
God save the Queen!

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by the twelfth section of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon application being made to grant special claims of greater area than may be determined by the Regulations to be made under the eleventh section of the said Act, for the purpose of carrying on mining operations under circumstances of extraordinary difficulty, or involving the expenditure of considerable sums of money, or for the encouragement of enterprise in prospecting new ground, or as a reward for the discovery of new gold workings, and also to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which any such special claim may be held, occupied, worked, and forfeited:

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, by an Order in Council, dated the second day of February, 1874, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 26th day of February, 1874, His Excellency the Governor did, under his hand and the public seal of the Colony, delegate unto me, James Alexander Bonar, Superintendent of the Province of Westland, all the powers vested in the Governor under or by virtue of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," and "The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1869," except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," to have, hold, and exercise the said powers hereby delegated to me, the said James Alexander Bonar, within the Province of Westland:

Now therefore, I, James Alexander Bonar, Superintendent of the Province of Westland, in exercise and pursuance of all the powers vested in and delegated to me in this behalf do hereby grant unto Wright and Company a special claim of ten acres, situated at Callaghan’s Gully, subject to the following conditions:

1. That six men be constantly employed while the tunnel is being driven; this condition not to extend over twelve months; after that time four men per acre to be constantly employed.

2. The said Wright and Company shall have no right to sell or otherwise dispose of