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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s Command,
EDWARD JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XIII.] SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1866. [No. XXV.]
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, March 15, 1866.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that a Writ, calling for the election of a Member to serve in the Provincial Council for the Rakaia District, has been returned to him, with the endorsement that
Edward Cephas John Stevens, Esq.,
has been duly elected.
Edw. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, March 15, 1866.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following Reserves, temporarily, under the 19th clause of the Waste Land Regulations;
viz.—
No. 198, in red.—Three thousand acres, more or less, situate in the Waipara District, being bounded on the north and east by the River Hurunui, on the south by the River Waipara, and on the west by a due north and south line passing through the trigonometrical station forming the eastern extremity of the base line—For a quarantine ground for sheep.
No. 317, in red.—All that tract of land, being a strip of land half a mile wide, as marked on the plan of the Railway Commissioners, and coloured green thereon, dated 6th February, 186...
186+, extending from the thirty-first mile peg to Section No. 5800—For road, railway, and telegraphic purposes.
No. 318, in red.—All that tract of land, being half a mile wide, on each side of the present railway reserve, as marked on the plan of the Railway Commissioners, dated 6th February, 186+, extending from the northern bank of the Ashburton, to the southern bank of the Orari—For road, railway, and telegraphic purposes.
No. 349, in red.—All that tract of land, one mile wide, lying between the Rivers Rangitata and Orari, the centre line of the same being a right line drawn from a point on the northern bank of the Rangitata aforesaid, one mile above M’Donald’s crossing, to a point on the western side of the south railway reserve, about thirty chains to the southward of Trig. Station 4 (save and except the freehold land), as the same is more particularly delineated on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing the rural land in the Timaru District—For road, railway, and telegraphic purposes.
No. 350, in red.—All that tract of land, one mile wide, lying between the rivers Ashburton and Rangitata, the centre line of the same being a right line drawn from the south-western corner of section 4354 on the South Vol. 13.—No. 25.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1866, No 25
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🏘️ Election Result for Rakaia District
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government15 March 1866
Election, Rakaia District, Provincial Council
- Edward Cephas John Stevens (Esquire), Elected as Member for Rakaia District
- Edward Jollie, Provincial Secretary
🗺️ Temporary Land Reserves
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey15 March 1866
Land Reserves, Quarantine, Railway, Telegraph, Waipara, Ashburton, Orari, Rangitata
- Edward Jollie, Provincial Secretary