Public Works Office,
Christchurch, July 6, 1874.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following Reserves temporarily under the 19th clause of the Waste Lands Regulations, viz :—

No. 288 (in red).—One thousand two hundred and eighty acres, situate on the north bank of the Rakaia, bounded on the south by the Rakaia; on the east by the Ferry Reserve No. 96 (in red), and a line in continuation of the western boundary thereof; on the west by a line at right angles to the river; and on the north by a line parallel to and distant one mile from the river.—For railway purposes.

No. 349 (in red).—All that tract of land one mile wide, lying between the rivers Rangatata 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 McDonald'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 scrubing the rural land in the Timaru district.—For road, railway, and telegraph 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 Road to a point on the northern bank of the Rangitata aforesaid, one mile above McDonald's crossing (save and except the freehold land), and the Reserve for Railway purposes, numbered 318 (in red), as the same is more particularly delineated and described on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing the runs between the rivers Ashburton and Rangitata before-mentioned.—For road, railway, and telegraph purposes.

No. 389 (in red).—All that tract of land one mile wide, extending from the southern bank of the Orari to section No. 5961, being bounded on the eastward by the South Road; and on the westward by a line eighty chains distant from and parallel to that road.—For railway purposes.

No. 740 (in red).—All that tract of land two-and-a-half chains wide, the centre line of which commences at a point marked A on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing the rural land in the Timaru district, and situated on the northern bank of the river Pareora, about thirty-five chains in a northerly direction from the confluence of a small stream with the said river; thence following the centre line before mentioned, as indicated by a red line on the map above referred to, until it meets the road forming the south-west boundary of section 8299, at a point being about forty chains south-east of the south-western corner of that section; subject, nevertheless, to the freehold land purchased to date through which the reserve above described may pass. Boundaries to be defined by survey after its completion.—For a water race for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of Timaru with water from the river Pareora.

No. 868 (in red).—All that tract of land three chains wide, commencing at the end of the present Railway Reserve through the Weka Pass across the Waikari Valley; thence passing east of Horsley Downs to the gorge of the Hurunui; thence along the valley of the Hurunui to Lake Sumner, a distance of about forty and a-half miles, subject to land purchased and finally reserved to date.—For railway purposes.

No. 869 (in red).—All that tract of land forty chains wide, commencing at the western end of Reserve No. 868 (in red); thence following along the southern shore of Lake Sumner and the slopes of the hills on the south side of Hurunui Valley to the summit of the dividing range, a distance of about twenty-two miles, subject to land purchased and finally reserved to date.—For railway purposes.

No. 946 (in red).—Two hundred and forty two acres, situate in the Christchurch district, commencing at the junction of the road forming the eastern boundary of section 2209, with the road forming the northern boundary of section 2782; thence north-easterly following the latter road to the terrace forming the north-western boundary of section 2819, following the said terrace north-easterly to the road forming the north-western boundary of section 461; thence north-easterly along that road to section 2812; thence following the south-western boundary of that section to section 2818; thence following the terrace forming the southern boundary of that section to the eastern boundary of section 2197; thence following that boundary and the southern boundary of the same section to the road first mentioned; and thence returning along the same to the commencing point.—For purposes of protective works in connection with the overflow of the Waimakariri.