The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1866.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 156, 4 September 1866, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1866.

The Provincial Government Gazette of the 3rd instant, contains a proclamation from his Honor the Superintendent, alteriug and exteudiug the boundaries of the Nelson Southwest Goldfields. The proclamation is as follows : — . Now therefore, I, Alfred Saunders, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, do hereby and in pursuance of the power and authority so vested in me as aforesaid, proclaim that all that part of the Province of Nelson, hereinafter described, shall be added to and form part of the Nelson South-west Gold-fields, that is to say^ All that territory comprised within the following boundaries, and commencing at a point on the West Coast midway between the Rivers Okari and Totara ; theiice along the sea coast to Kougahu Point; thence by the most direct spur to peak of Otahu Hill; thence along top of enclosing drainage area of the River Mokiliiuui to the Marino Mountains ; thence along top of range to Mount Owen; thence along the top of ranges eastward of the River Hope to its junction with the Buller; thence to the nearest peak of range forming the watershed, between the River Howard and Lakeßotoroa; thence along the top of the range to Mount Travers; thence along the top of range to Mount Mackay and Mount Frauklin; thence along the top of the range of the Spencer Mountains to Travers' Peak; thence aloug s he top of range to the nearest point of the present boundary of the South-west Gold-fields : excepting so much and such parts of the land hereinbefore described, as is comprised within the Townships of Westport and Hampden, and the surveyed lands respectively adjoining thereto. A second proclamation in the same gazette alters the boundaries of certain lands known as the Golden. Bay Goldfields : — Now, therefore, I, Alfred Saunders, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, by virtue of the powers in me vested as aforesaid, do hereby revoke the above mentioned proclamation, and declare the same to be null and void from and after the date hereof, and I do hereby declare and proclaim all that territory whereof the boundary commences atßangihaetata Head, at the mouth of the River Takaka, thence up the western bank of that river to its junction with the River Anatoki ; thence up the eastern bank of the River Anatoki to the western angle of section numbered 94 on square numbered 11 of the map of the Proviace of Nelson ; thence following the western boundary of the surveyed lauds in the districts of Takaka and Upper Taknka to the south-west angle of section numbered 30 on square numbei^ed 8 of the said map : thence up the Waituhi stream to its source near Mount Campbell ; thence along the watershed of Blind Bay, and of the valley of the River Takaka to the source of that river at Mount Arthur : thence along the watershed between the Rivers Karamea and Takaka to Mount Peel; thence along the watershed to Mount Snowdon ; thence along the watershed between the Rivers Karamea and Aorere to Mount Domett ; thence by the watershed of the Aorere to Brown Hill ; thence to the junction of the Rivers Clarke and Aorere; thence by the northern bank of the Aorere to Golden Bay ; thence along the seaward boundary, exclusive of the surveyed sections, to Rangihaeta Head, to be a gold-field within the meaning of the Gold-fields Act, 1862, and to be called the Golden Bay Gold-fields. And I do further proclaim and declare that the Rules and Regulations published in the

Nelson Government Gazette, No. 28, of the 15th" September, 1863, as " Rules and Regulations for the Golden Bay Gold-fields," shall continue and be., in force fer the gold-field hereby constituted. j A third proclamation -withdraws certain lands from the South-west Goldfields : — Now therefore, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, do hereby withdraw from the Nelson South West Gold-fields. all that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 5,700 acres, be the same more or less, and bounded on the northward partly by a line running east and west magnetic 27,500 links, and partly by the land leased to Messrs. Joues and Frazer, 3,300 links, ou the eastward and southward by the banks of the River Grey, and on the westward by a line drawn from the letters A to B on the plan of the town of Cobden, 19,600 links, the same being the south-west side of the street to the eastward of the cemetery in the said town. Also all that parcel of land known as the Totara Flat, and containing by admeasurement 2,400 acres, be the same more or less bounded on the northward and westward by the banks of the River Grey, on the eastward by a reserve 14,000 links, and on the southward by a line drawn from the south-west angle of the said Reserve, to peg marked XV., on the traverse of the River Grey, 22,600 links.