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PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

proclamation of a goldfield, to withdraw by Proclamation therefrom any Crown lands which he may deem it necessary to withdraw; and such lands shall thenceforth be dealt with, sold, occupied, and disposed of under any law or laws for the time being in force regulating the sale, occupation, or disposal of, or in any way affecting or relating to the management of or dealing with, the Crown lands within the province in which such goldfield is situate, in like manner in every respect as though such lands had never been comprised in any proclaimed goldfield:. And whereas, by Proclamations bearing date the twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and the nineteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and the seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and seventy, certain lands, including the lands mentioned or described in the Schedule hereto, were under and by virtue of the said Act proclaimed and declared to be a gold-field: And whereas it is desirable and expedient to withdraw from the said goldfield the lands mentioned or described in the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of every power and authority enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands in the said Schedule hereto mentioned are hereby withdrawn from the said goldfield.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land contained within the dotted red lines, being generally, unless otherwise indicated on plan, not more than five chains on either side of line tinted red on the plan marked C.W. 246, which plan is for the purpose of this Proclamation identified by the signature of the Honorable Edward Richardson, and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Hokitika, in the Province of Westland.

The said line commencing at or near a point which is situate in a north-westerly direction about three chains, more or less, from the seventeenth mile-post of the Hokitika and Christchurch Road, in the Province of Westland, and indicated by a peg driven in the ground and marked 298, the said peg being a peg of the Waimea Water Race survey line; proceeding thence in a generally west-north-westerly direction for a distance of about one hundred and ninety chains, more or less, and terminating at a peg driven in the ground and marked 496, the said peg being a peg of the Waimea Water Race survey line.

The whole of the above-described piece or parcel of land being situate between the Hokitika and Christchurch Road, near the seventeenth mile-post and Fox’s Township, in the Province of Westland.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; 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 the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette No. 66, of the 26th November, 1875.]

Fixing Sittings of District Court of Westland.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in this behalf enabling me, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint