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Provincial Secretary\'s Office,
Christchurch, February 4, 1874.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs
it to be notified that he has appointed

JOHN FOSTER

as a Member of the Board of Managers of
the Oxford Cemetery Board, in the room of
Mr. Dolomore, who has left the Province.

EDWARD JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

THE City Council of Christchurch hereby
give notice that it is their intention
to consider a proposition to borrow a sum
of £12,000, such amount being required to
meet the expenses of the works in connec-
tion with the drainage of the city which
will be undertaken during the present year,
the said amount to be raised on debentures,
value £50 each, bearing interest at six per
cent. per annum, issued for a term of fifty
years, on the security of a special rate of
twopence in the £ on the rateable property
in the city, which rate will provide the said
interest, and a sinking fund, as by "The
City of Christchurch Loan Act, 1871," re-
quired. The interest will be payable half-
yearly, and the principal at the time speci-
fied in the debentures, at the offices of the
City Council, Christchurch.

By order,
GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

City Council Office,
January 28, 1874.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, January 24, 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 Regu-
lations, 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 con-
tinuation 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 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 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 free-
hold land), as the same is more par-
ticularly delineated on the map of
the Chief Surveyor of the Province
of Canterbury, setting out and de-
scribing 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, num-
bered 318 (in red), as the same is
more particularly delineated and
described on the map of the Chief
Surveyor of the Province of Canter-
bury, 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 east-
ward 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 Canter-
bury, 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 indi-
cated by a red line on the map above
referred to, until it meets the road
forming the south-west boundary of
section 8209, at a point being about
forty chains south-east of the south-
western corner of that section; sub-
ject, nevertheless, to the freehold
land purchased to date through which
the reserve above described may pass.
Boundaries to be defined by sur-
vey after its completion.—For a
water race for the purpose of sup-
plying 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