240 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

in accordance with the provisions of the said in part
recited Act, the Minister for Public Works has
caused a map of all such lands as have been taken or
purchased for the line of railway from Addington to
north bank of North Kowai, in the Province of Can-
terbury, which is situated between the Addington
Station, on the Canterbury Railways, and the north
bank of the North Kowai, at or near a point situ-
ated in Rural Section numbered 4713, distant about 830
links from the northernmost corner thereof, to be
prepared as by the said in part recited Act is required,
and accurately set forth the pieces or parcels of land
intended to be taken and permanently used, or
which have been purchased or taken, or are required
to be vested in Her Majesty for the purposes of any
such railway, and shall be authenticated by the sig-
nature of the Minister, or by that of some person to
be appointed by him for that purpose from time to
time. And it is also enacted that the Minister shall
cause the map to be deposited in the office of the
Registrar of Deeds for the Registration District
within which the lands shall be situated, or if the
lands set forth on any such map shall extend beyond
the boundaries of any one district, then such map
shall be prepared in so many parts as shall be
requisite to delineate the lands within each such
district, and the map or the parts thereof as afore-
said shall be deposited in the office of the Registrar
of Deeds in each Registration District where the
lands shall be situated to which such map relates;
but for the purposes of the said Act, such map,
although consisting of several parts, shall only be
deemed to be one map: And whereas by the said
Act it is further enacted, that it shall thereupon be
lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Pro-
clamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to declare
that the lands set forth in such map, or any of them,
have been taken or acquired for the purposes of the
railway in respect of which the same shall have been
taken or acquired under the said Acts, or any Act
authorizing the same to be taken or acquired, and in
such Proclamation the lands intended to be affected
shall be therein described by reference to such map
and so to be deposited as aforesaid.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl
of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George; Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same; and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at Napier, this thirtieth day of March, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-six.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclaiming Deposit of Memorial Plan of certain
Lands taken for purposes of the Railway from
Waitaki to Timaru.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1872," it is, among other things,
enacted, that whenever it shall become necessary
that any lands which the Governor or the Minister
is, by or under the Acts therein mentioned, or any
Act authorizing the construction of any railway by
the Governor or Minister, authorized to purchase or
take for such railway, or any portion thereof on
or over which a railway authorized by the said Acts, or
any Act to be passed in pursuance thereof, has been
vested in Her Majesty the Queen, it shall be lawful for the
Governor or the Minister to cause a map of all such
lands as may have been taken or purchased under
the authority of any railway as aforesaid, or any portion of
such railway, to be prepared. Such map shall fully
set forth the pieces or parcels of land intended to be
taken and permanently used, or which have been purchased
or taken, or are required to be vested in Her Majesty for the
purposes of any such railway, and shall be authenticated by the sig-
nature of the Minister, or by that of some person to
be appointed by him for that purpose from time to
time. And it is also enacted that the Minister shall
cause the map to be deposited in the office of the
Registrar of Deeds for the Registration District
within which the lands shall be situated, or if the
lands set forth on any such map shall extend beyond
the boundaries of any one district, then such map
shall be prepared in so many parts as shall be
requisite to delineate the lands within each such
district, and the map or the parts thereof as afore-
said shall be deposited in the office of the Registrar
of Deeds in each Registration District where the
lands shall be situated to which such map relates;
but for the purposes of the said Act, such map,
although consisting of several parts, shall only be
deemed to be one map: And whereas by the said
Act it is further enacted, that it shall thereupon be
lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Pro-
clamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to declare
that the lands set forth in such map, or any of them,
have been taken or acquired for the purposes of the
railway in respect of which the same shall have been
taken or acquired under the said Acts, or any Act
authorizing the same to be taken or acquired, and in
such Proclamation the lands intended to be affected
shall be therein described by reference to such map
and so to be deposited as aforesaid: And whereas, in
accordance with the provisions of the said in part
recited Act, the Minister for Public Works has
caused a map of all such lands as have been taken or
purchased for the railway from Waitaki to Timaru,
which said railway is situated between the River Waitaki
and the Municipality of Timaru, terminating at or near a point
on the Beach Reserve, in the Town of Timaru,
about 15 chains, more or less, northward from the
south-easternmost corner of Rural Section numbered
7555, known as Rhodes Town, and about 35 links
distant from the eastern boundary of the said section,
the said point being the point of commencement of
the Timaru and Temuka Railway, as described in the
New Zealand Gazette, No. 33, dated June 14, 1871,
page 293, to be prepared as by the said in part recited
Act is required, and the said map is authenticated by
the signature of the Honorable Edward Richardson,
as such Minister for Public Works: And whereas the said
Minister, on or about the sixteenth day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six, caused the said map to be deposited in the office
of the Registrar of Deeds at Christchurch, in the
Province of Canterbury aforesaid.

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authority vested in me by the hereinbefore
in part recited Act, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the lands set forth in the said map so
deposited as aforesaid have been taken or acquired
for the purposes of the hereinbefore mentioned rail-
way from Waitaki to Timaru, which said railway is,