PEOCLAMATION.

Southland Times, Issue 578, 15 October 1866, Page 3

PEOCLAMATION.

By the Host. Joira Parkin Taylor, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Southland. IN" pursuance and exercise of the power in me vested in this behalf I do hereby constitute and appoint to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the Gold Fields Act 1862 under the name of the Orepuki and Longwood Gold Field,, all that territory comprised within the area bounded on the North by an east and west line in transit with the top of Ferndunlaw-Hill from the Waiau to a tributary of Purra-purra-kino River, rising to the eastward of the aforesaid Hill ; on the East by said tributary and the Purra-purra-kino River, to Block XVII Jacob's River Hundred, then by Block XVII and Block I of aft resaid Hundred to the ocean ; on the South and South West by low-water mark of the ocean in Foveaux Strait's, and on the "West by the Waiau River : excepting always out of the area herein before described the following native Reserves and Runs. The native Reserve at Kolac's Bay, bounded on the north east by a line (starting from a marked peg on the beach) bearing 308.12 on the true meridian, a distance of 72 chains 40 links ; on the north west by a line, bearing 218.21 on the true meridian to high water mark, and on the south west and east by the high water mark of the ocean in Foveaux Straits. The native reserve at Wakapatu Bay, bounded on the north east by a line (starting from a marked peg on the Beach) bearing 279.30 on the magnetic meridian a distance of about 76 chains, on the north west by a line bearing 210. on the magnetic mederian to the ocean, and on the south west and south east by the high water mark of the ocean in Foveaux Straits. Tha native reserve at Pahia point bounded on the north east by a line starting from a pole on the Beach on the north east Bay bearing 125. on the magnetic meridian to the high water mark in Otui Bay and on the north west and south west by the high water mark of the ocean in Foveaux Straits. Run No. 393. Bounded on the northeast and E° .st by the edge of the Longwood bush, on the north-west by the Waiau river, and on the south-west and south by the high water mark of the ocean iv Foveaux straits and the township reserve of Orepuki. Run No. 395. Bounded on the north east and south, by the edge of the Longwood bush, and on the west by the highwater mark of the ocean in Foveaux straits and the native reserve on Pahia point ; and I declare i,hat this Proclamation shall come into operation and take effect on the j day of the date hereof. Given under my hand, and the Public Seal of the Province of Southland, this Twenty-fifth day of September One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. John P. Taylor, | Superintendent.