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and such district shall thereupon become an Educational District accordingly:

And Whereas at a meeting duly called as aforesaid, and held at the house of Messrs. A. and C. Cunningham, Loburn Station, on Tuesday, the 17th instant, the owners and occupiers of land and householders in the district specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed, did, by the votes of the majority there present, declare that they were willing that the said district should be formed into an Educational District; and further declared their willingness to provide the proportion of the annual expenses of an Educational District as provided in the said Ordinance:

Now therefore, I, William Sefton Moorhouse, Superintendent of the said Province, in pursuance of the powers in me vested by the said in part recited Ordinance, do hereby proclaim that the district specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed shall be an Educational District within the meaning of the said Ordinance.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this 25th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent of Canterbury.

By His Honor’s command,
EDWD. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

LOBURN EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT.

Bounded on the north by a line drawn from the north-east corner of Section 10706 to the north-east corner of Section 9018, and thence in a straight line to the Grey River; on the west by the Grey River to its junction with the Okuku River, and by the latter river to its junction with the Ashley River; on the south by the Ashley River to its junction with the Makerikeri River; and on the east following northwards up the western boundary of the Ashley Bank District, and easterly along its northern boundary to Trig Pole 3A, and from thence in a straight line to the starting point.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, March 28, 1868.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following Reserves, upon the recommendation of the Provincial Council, viz:—

No. 198, in red.—Three thousand five hundred and fifty-six 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. 400, in red.—Twenty acres (more or less), situate in the Ekaia District, commencing at a point on the western side of the reserve for the Southern line of Railway, immediately opposite the peg, marked twenty nine miles, ten chains; thence following a straight line, at a right angle with the said reserve, in a north-westerly direction, a distance of five chains; thence at a right angle, north-easterly, a distance of forty chains; thence again at a right angle, south-easterly, to the South Road; thence south-westerly along the said road to the reserve above-mentioned; and from thence, returning along the same to the commencing point—For Railway Station.

No. 408, in red.—One thousand acres (more or less), situate at the confluence of the rivers Wilberforce and Harper, commencing at a point on the southern bank of the Wilberforce, the same being eighty chains distant from the same, following the said bank and a line in continuation of the same in a south-easterly direction, a distance of one hundred and twenty chains, and extending back south-westerly a distance of about eighty chains, in a rectangular block, including the river-bed—For the uses of the Provincial Government, and particularly for a Ferry, Road, and Railway.

No. 412, in red.—Sixty-five acres (more or less), situate in the Malvern District, bounded on the northward by the Waimakariri; on the eastward by sections 3110 and 3111; and on the westward by a line being in continuation of the eastern side of the Gorge-hill Road, subject to P. R. 29—For the uses of the Provincial Government, and particularly for a Road and Railway.

No. 413, in red.—All that tract of land, being three chains wide, extending from the southern boundary of section 8625, and running along the eastern side of the Gorge-hill Road, and branching therefrom to the right and left, following curves of forty chains radius to the Coal Tramway Reserve—For the uses of the Provincial Government, and particularly for a Road and Railway.

No. 435, in red.—All that tract of land, three chains wide, situate in the Malvern District, the centre line of the same commencing at a point on the Coal Tramway Reserve, being about ninety-six chains south-east of the intersection of the said Reserve by the Dalethorpe and Kowai