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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 268, 17 November 1874, Page 5

The following was published as an Extra last Wednesday morning:— A proclamation appears in to-day's Gazette cancelling the lease over the parcel of land described as follows:—All that parcel of land in the Province of Otago and the Colony of New Zealand, containing by estimation 14,500 acres more or less, situated in the Cromwell and Wakefield districts, being parts of Runs numbered respectively 245 and 340 on the map of the said Province, bounded by a line commencing at the junction of the Lowburn with the Clutha river, and proceeding southwards along the Clutha river to the town of Cromwell 21,500 links ; thence in a north-westerly direction along the town boundary 10,200 links; thence in a south-westerly direction along the boundary of the said township 3734 links to section numbered 10, block 1., Cromwell District; thence along the north-east boundary of the said section 900 links; thence along the northwest boundary of the said section 3200 links; thence along the south-west boundary of the said section and the boundary of the town of Cromwell 5500 links to the Kawarau river ; thence in a south-westerly direction along the Kawarau river 22,600 links ; thence in a north-westerly direction along the Kawarau river 36,000 links to the junction of a creek ; thence in a northerly direction along the creek to a straight line with trigonometrical station G and the junction of Stratford's Gully with the Lowburn 14,400 links; thence along the said straight line to the aforesaid junction of Stratford's Gully with the Lowburn 20,500 links ; thence in a south-westerly direction along the Lowburn 20,600 links to the starting point. J j