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Otago Witness, Issue 313, 28 November 1857, Page 2

! TO BE LET OR SOLD, THAT Eligible Property on the Western side of the Upper Harbour, known as "Little Falmouth." For particulars apply to Geoxge Smith, Rattray Street. . FOR SALE, * A SMALL HOMESTEAD on a, 20-Acre t Section, adjoining Bush.' There are two Houses, Stock and Drafting Yard, and, a Paddock in Grasg....The above .Farm is' about 18 miles from Dunedin, . has water-carriage nearly at hand, and is on*a good run for cattle. -'-..' For terms, address "R. L." office of tbis P a P er - . - - :': ' $f?T NOTICE. WHEREAS information has been received at this Office that certain parties are occupying Lands south of the River Waitangi, or boundary undernoted, without the permission of the Waste Land Board of this Province : Intimation is hereby given to all parties so occupying, or intending to occupy, Lands southward of the River Waitangi and boundary undernoted, that the occupation of such country is illegal unless sanctioned by the Waste Land Board of this Province, and that parties persisting in any such illegal occupation after this Notice will be proceeded against in manner provided by Law. W. H. CUTTEN, Chief Commissioner. Waste Land Board Office,) Otago, Oct. 28th, 1857. j The boundary referred to in the foregoing Notice, being the northern boundary of the Province of Otago, is described in his Excellency Sir George Grey's Proclamation of date 28th February, 1853, fixing the boundaries and limits of the respective Provinces as follows : — By the River Waitangi to its source, thence by a right line running to the source of the River Awarua, thence by the River Awarua to its mouth. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Sept. 19, 1857. HIS Honor the Superintendent of Canterbury directs the following memorandum to be published for public information : — A difference of opinion has arisen between the Provincial Governments of Canterbury and Otago as to the boundary line between the two Provinces. Sir George Grey fixed this boundary by a Proclamation dated the 28th day of February, 1853, in the following words : — "The Province of Canterbury shall be bounded * * * * on the south by the river Waitangi to its source, thence by a right line running to the source of the river. Awarua, thence to the river Awarua to its mouth * * " The Province of Otago shall be bounded on the north by the southern bouudary pf the Province of Canterbury, as already described in this Proclamation." The river Waitangi having several branches, all bearing different native names, and the direction of the upper waters being unknown, an ambiguity in the meaning of the Proclamation would have existed had it not been ac- ' companied by a map, annexed to, and made a part of it. This map marks out the branch running nearly east and west, and the head waters of which are nearest to the head waters of the Awarua river, as the branch intended in the Proclamation, the boundary between the Provinces mostly running in nearly a direct line across the island from east to west. The Superintendent of the Province of Otago, neglecting the map attached to the Proclamation, claims as a part of the Province of Otago all the land south of the north branch of the Waitangi ; by which claim the boundary line would appear on the map as running first westerly, then for at least 70 miles northerly, an equal distance southerly to the Awarua river. The Superintendent of Canterbury has applied to the General Government, and has been assured that the matter will be made the subject of legislation at the approaching Session of the General Assembly. In the mean time, notice is given, that all persons, not holding licenses from the Waste Lands' Board of the Province of Canterbury, occupying land lying north of the west branch of the Waitangi river, as indicated by the Proclamation and map attached, will be treated as unlicensed squatters, and proceeded against according to law. By order of his Honor the Superintendent, R. Packer, Provincial Secretary. NOTICE. THE Licensed Runholders of this Province who have not yet made their Annual Returns of Stock, are hereby reminded that, by the 49th clause of the Land Regulations it is provided that such Return shall be made-; jgff the month of September in every .yeai-: " And if any such person shall fail to make* "or cause to be made, such return, at^^me, "time so appointed, or shall omit to deposit . "the same with the Waste Land. Board, in " manner hereby required, he shall forfeit and "pay for every such offence, any sum not less " than Forty Shillings, nor more than. Twen"ty Pounds, to be recovered in a summary "way." JW. H. .CUTTEN, Chief Commissipner... <- Waste Land Board Office, - . Otago, Oct. 28, 1857. , ' ' '