THE CANTERBURY GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that application is intended to be made to the General Assembly of New Zealand, in the next Session, for and on behalf of the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, for leave to bring in a Bill to make and construct a railway commencing at a point on the proposed Great Southern Railway, about five chains to the south of the south-west corner of the Town Belt of the city of Christchurch, in rural section No. 9 on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury, and terminating at a point on the south bank of the River Ashley, in rural section No. 2459 on the said map, and passing through the several sections enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed and herein referred to, and which railway is shown by a red line on the plan deposited for inspection as hereinafter mentioned, and to confer on the said Superintendent powers for the compulsory purchase of lands and houses along the said line, and for such other usual provisions and powers as may be necessary or desirable for the making, construction, and establishment of the said railway, and to confer on the said Superintendent powers for the selling or leasing the said railway, and for selling or leasing the railway severances of such railway. Notice is also given that the plans and sections of the said railway, with books of reference thereto, and copies of this notice, will be deposited in the Private Bill Office during the said session, and that a plan of the said railway is deposited for public inspection at the Public Works Office, Government Buildings, Christchurch; and at the Resident Magistrate’s Office, Kaiapoi.

THE SCHEDULES HEREINBEFORE REFERRED TO.

In the Riccarton Road District:—

• Rural Section No. 9 2382 112
  „ 135 135
  „ 189A 189A
  „ 145 151 292
  „ 163 64 291
  „ 607 323 799
  „ 80 203 290
  „ 18 5 280
  „ 143 3 279
  „ 242 25 243
  „ And all sections intervening.

In the Avon Road District:—

• Rural Section No. 322 298 1527
  „ 150 373 430
  „ 288 1463 190
  „ 289 419 533
  „ 281 589 534
  „ 243A 811 669
  „ And all sections intervening.

In the Mandeville and Rangiora Road Districts:—

• Rural Section No. 468 402 3064
  „ 297 4268 4718
  „ 321 4267 3933
  „ 365 4295 1225
  „ 366 6676 3249
  „ 366A 5736 5506
  „ 472 317 4654
  „ 564 2229 4699
  „ 338 1620 3213
  „ 403 1586 1213
  „ 128B Kaiapoi Native Res. 497 6092
  „ 2066 947 1233
  „ And all sections intervening.

In the Kowai Road District:—

• Rural Section No. 1881 1896 1962
  „ 1943 2278 1292
  „ 1995
  „ And all sections intervening.

Dated this eighth day of November, 1864.

JOHN HALL,
Secretary for Public Works.

IMMIGRATION COMMISSION.

Ship “William Miles.”

THE Commissioners were well satisfied with the arrangements of the Ship “William Miles,” with the exception of the lighting of the between decks, the scuttles being small, and there being no deck lights. This defect was especially noticed in the hospitals, which were very dark; and this would have been a serious evil, had they been occupied by invalids.

The arrangements for cleanliness had been well carried out, and the officers of the ship, as also the constables, and the two young women appointed by Mr. Marshman, to share the office of Matron, appear to have fulfilled their duties satisfactorily.

The Surgeon of the ship is stated to have performed his duties faithfully up to the time when he was incapacitated by sickness; and since that time all the passengers bear testimony to the kindness and diligence of the Captain in filling his place to the best of his ability.

The Officer charged with the issuing of provisions to the Immigrants had fully satisfied them in the discharge of his duty, and the Commissioners beg to recommend that he should receive a gratuity of five pounds.

The Commissioners recommend that all the usual gratuities be paid.

RICHARD R. ARMSTRONG.
JOHN T. HOUSE.
FREDERICK D. GISSON.

A PROCLAMATION

Extending the Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Timaru in the Province of Canterbury.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.

WHEREAS by the “Resident Magistrates’ Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1862,” it is enacted that every case of a claim for debt or damages, such as might, at the passing of the said Act, be lawfully tried in a Resident Magistrate’s Court, where the debt or damages claimed do not exceed the sum of Twenty Pounds, may be tried in any Resident Magistrate’s Court with respect to which this Act shall be in operation when the debt or damages claimed do not exceed Fifty Pounds:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the said recited Act, and of an Order in Council, dated the Seventeenth day of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-two, authorising the issue of Proclamations under the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the provisions of the said recited Act, and especially the powers con-