864

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

in part recited Acts, do hereby proclaim and declare | of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise
that the lands set forth in the said map so deposited | of the power and authority enabling me in this
as aforesaid have been taken or acquired for the pur- | behalf, proclaim and declare that the boundaries of
poses of the hereinbefore mentioned railway from | the Mount Stuart and the Balmoral Road Districts
Napier to Waipukurau, authorized to be constructed | are hereby altered, and shall be as follows, that is to
and maintained by "The Railways Act, 1871," from | say,–
Napier to Ruataniwha, and by "The Railways | AMENDED BOUNDARIES OF THE MOUNT STUART
Act, 1872," from Napier to Waipukurau, under | ROAD DISTRICT.
the provisions of "The Immigration and Public | Comprises all that area commencing at the north-
Works Act, 1870," and the several Acts amending | western corner of Section 24, Block VI., Waitahuna
the same: And in further pursuance and exercise of | East Survey District; thence in an easterly direction
the said power and authority, I do hereby proclaim | along the northern boundary of said Section 24 to a
and declare that the lands intended to be affected by | road line; thence in a northerly direction by said
this Proclamation are described and delineated in the | road line to the north-western corner of Section 16
said map so deposited as aforesaid. | of said block; thence again in an easterly direction
| by the northern boundaries of Sections 16, 17, and 18
| of said block; thence again in a northerly direction
| by the western boundary of Section 26, Block IV., to
| the north-western corner of said section and block;
| thence again in an easterly direction along the
| northern boundary of said Block IV. to a road line at
| the north-eastern corner of Section 13, said Block
| IV.; thence in a north-westerly direction by said
| road line to Trigonometrical Station Q on Round
| Hill; thence in a north-eastern direction along a
| road line and the watershed boundary through Trigo-
| nometrical Stations S and G, Block VII., Table Hill
| District; thence again in an easterly direction by a
| line produced through Trigonometrical Station F to
| the boundary of hundreds; thence on the south-east
| by the Tokomairiro River and the Tokomairiro Road
| District; thence towards the south-west by the
| Crichton Road District to the boundary of hundreds;
| thence in a south-westerly direction along the south-
| eastern boundary of Section 31; thence in a north-
| westerly direction by a line bearing 308° 57' along
| the south-western boundary of said Section 31, Block
| XI., Waitahuna East District; thence in a northerly
| direction by the eastern boundary of the Balmoral
| Road District to the boundary line of Stuart
| Hundred; thence again in a north-westerly direction
| by said Stuart Hundred boundary line to the north-
| western corner of Section 24, Block VI., Waitahuna
| East District, being the starting point.

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
the Government House, at Wellington,
this twelfth day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-six.

J. D. ORMOND,
Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Alteration of Boundaries of Otago Road Boards.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section seven of "The Otago Roads
Ordinance 1871 Amendment Ordinance, 1874,"
it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Superinten-
dent of the Province of Otago, upon the recommen-
dation of the Provincial Council, from time to time,
by Proclamation in the Gazette, to alter the boun-
daries of any road district, and either to enlarge or
diminish the area thereof: And whereas by the
seventh section of "The Abolition of Provinces Act,
1875," it is enacted, amongst other things, that all
powers, duties, and functions which, immediately
before the date of the abolition hereunder of any
province, were, under or by virtue of any law not
expressly or impliedly repealed or altered hereby,
vested in or to be exercised or performed by the
Superintendent of such abolished province, either
alone or with the advice and consent of, or on the
recommendation of, the Executive or Provincial
Council of such province, or which, by virtue of
"The Public Reserves Act, 1854," or any Act amend-
ing the same, or by virtue of any Waste Lands Act
or any regulations made thereunder, or otherwise
howsoever, would but for this Act have been exercised
only under an Ordinance of such abolished province,
shall, on the day of the date of the abolition of such
province, and for the purposes of the district included
within such abolished province, vest in and be exer-
cised and performed by the Governor:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony | AMENDED BOUNDARIES OF THE BALMORAL ROAD
| DISTRICT.
| Comprises all that area bounded by a line commen-
| cing at a point on the Tuapeka River due west of Tri-
| gonometrical Station L, Waitahuna West District;
| thence in a south-easterly direction by a road line and
| the Gold Fields boundary as far as the Waitahuna
| River, and continuing in the same direction by the
| boundary of the Stuart Hundred to the north-eastern
| corner of Section 10, Block IX., Waitahuna East
| District; thence due south by a line being the east-
| ern boundary of Sections 10, 11, 21, and 25, said
| block and district; thence by a road line to the boun-
| dary of the Waitahuna Hundred; thence towards
| the north-east by the Crichton Road District, the
| main South Road, and the Town of Balclutha; to-
| wards the south-west by the Clutha River to the
| boundary of Waitahuna Hundred; thence again in a
| south-easterly direction along said boundary of
| Waitahuna Hundred to the Tuapeka River; and
| thence in a north-easterly direction along said river
| to a point due west of Trigonometrical Station L,
| Waitahuna West District, being the starting point..

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