C.-No. 4.

PROCLAMATION extended the limits of moun^ beng.ee and dunstan gold fields, by the HONORABLE JOHN HYDE HARRIS, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO. Whereas on the fifteenth day of September last, I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers delegated to me in that behalf, did by Proclamation in the Provincial Government Gazette, constitute and appoint certain portions of the Province of Otago to be Gold Fields, under the provisions of the " Gold .Fields Act, 18G2," under the respective names of the Mount Benger Gold Field, and the Dunstan Gold Field, and the limits of which Gold Fields I did by the same Proclamation define, and whereas it has become expedient to extend the limits of the Mount Benger Gold Field and the Dunstan Gold Field respectively, as hereinafter mentioned. Now, therefore, I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent as aforesaid, by virtue of the powers delegated to me as aforesaid, under the said Gold Fields Act, 1862, do hereby proclaim and declare that the limits of the Mount Benger Gold Field as defined by the said Proclamation, dated the fifteenth day of September last, shall from the day of the date hereof, be extended and altered, so that henceforth the said Mount Benger Gold Field shall include as well the territory mentioned and described in the said Proclamation of the fifteenth September last, as also all the territory next, hereinafter mentioned and described, (that is to say,) all that territory bounded towards the West by the Mount Benger Gold Field, as proclaimed on the 15th day of September last, towards the North by the Dunstan Gold Field, as proclaimed on the same day to Cairn Hill, thence by a straight line to South Bough Eidge Hill— towards the East by the Taieri Gold Field to Lammerlaw —thence by the Tuapeka Gold Field to Mount Benger Gold Field, as proclaimed on the said fifteenth day of September last. And I do proclaim and declare, that henceforth the limits of the Mount Benger Gold Field shall be the limits by which the said Gold Field is defined in the said Proclamation of fifteenth September last, together with the limits of the territory hereby declared to be within the said Mount Benger Gold Field. And Ido hereby further proclaim and declare, that the limits of the Dunstan Gold Field, as defined by the said Proclamation of the fifteenth of September last, shall be extended and altered so that henceforth the said Dunstan Gold Field shall include as well the territory mentioned and described in the said Proclamation of the fifteenth day of September last, as also all the territory next hereinafter mentioned and described, (that is to say,) all that territory bounded towards the West by the Dunstan Gold Field, as proclaimed on the fifteenth day of September last, to Leaning Rock, thence towards the North by a line to the source of the Spottisburn, thence by the Spottisburn to the Manuherikia River thence by the Manuherikia River and Idaburn to Mount Ida, thence towards the East by the Mount Ida Gold Field to North Rough Bidge Hill, thence by the Taieri Gold Field to South Rough Ridge Hill, and thence towards the South by a straight line to Cairn Hill; and I do proclaim and declare, that henceforth the limits of the Dunstan Gold Field shall be the limits by which the said Dunstan Gold Field is defined in the said Proclamation of the fifteenth day of September last, together with the limits of the territory hereby declared to be within the said Dunstan Gold Field. Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, (L.S.) at Dunedin, this twelfth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. John Hyde Haeeis, • Superintendent. By His Honor's Command, Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary.

RETURN OF RULES AND REGULATIONS MADE UNDER THE GOLD FIELDS ACT, 1862.