PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

by the 14th Section of "The Westland Education Ordinance, 1874," there shall be levied yearly a rate of ten shillings for every such child as is in the said Section mentioned:

And whereas, by the 5th Section of the last-mentioned Ordinance it is enacted that the rate shall be paid by the person liable to the payment thereof to some person or persons appointed by the Superintendent for that purpose, on a day and a place to be fixed by the Superintendent by public notice in some newspaper published or generally circulated in the Province not being less than twenty-one days from the date of giving such notice, nor less than nine months from the day so appointed for the payment of any previous rate, and if the rate or any part thereof shall not be paid on the day so fixed for that purpose the same may be recovered in a summary manner before any Justice or Justices of the Peace:

Now therefore, I, James Alexander Bonar, Superintendent of the Province of Westland, do hereby proclaim that the rate as fixed by the above-mentioned Ordinances shall be paid to the persons and at the places mentioned in the annexed Schedule on the 1st day of September next.

Given under my hand, and under the Public Seal of the Province, this 23rd day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

JAS. A. BONAR.

SCHEDULE.

Greymouth—Police Camp, James Hickson.
Maori Gully—Court House, Hugh Boyle.
Dunganville—Court House, Adam Bisett.
Marsden—Hamilton’s Store, Søren Christus.
Greens tone—Court House, Richd. M’Cormick.
Goldborough—Court House, James Slattery.
Stafford—Court House, Patrick M’Gill.
Hokitika—Police Camp, William Henry James.
Kanieri—Court House, Richard White.
Ross—Court House, William Emerson.
Okarito—Court House, Thomas Sugrue.

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," 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: Provided always that copies of all rules and regulations made under the delegation aforesaid shall be forthwith transmitted to the Colonial Secretary, in order that the same may be laid before the General Assembly, in accordance with the provisions of the one hundred and tenth Clause of "The Goldfields Act, 1866."

Now therefore, I, James Alexander Bonar, Superintendent of the Province of Westland, in exercise and pursuance of all the powers