THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

943

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Description of the Mount Somers Road District, with
the severed portion of the Mount Peel Road Dis-
trict added to it.

BOUNDED on the Northward by the Lake Coleridge
District; on the North-east by the South Rakaia and
Lake Coleridge Districts; on the South-east by the
north-west boundary of Run No. 499 and a line in
continuation thereof to the north-east bank of the
River Hinds; thence following down that river to
the north-western boundary of Run No. 59; thence
following the latter boundary to the River Ashbur-
ton; thence following a straight line by the northern
end of the island to the north-eastern bank of the
northern branch of the River Ashburton; thence
following down the same to the north-western boun-
dary of Run No. 124; thence following that boundary
to the aforesaid South Rakaia District; on the South-
ward by the River Rangitata and Forest Creek to the
source of the latter in Two Thumbs Range; on the
Westward by a line along the summit of that range
to the County of Westland; and on the North-west
by that county.

Proclaiming Sydenham a Borough under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."

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

WHEREAS by section seventeen of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1876," the Governor
is empowered, by Proclamation, to declare any district
in New Zealand to be a borough under the said Act
from and after a day to be named in such Proclama-
tion:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the district of
Sydenham shall be and the same is hereby constituted,
as from the twentieth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven, a borough under
the said Act; and that the name of such borough
shall be the Borough of Sydenham, and the bound-
aries of such borough shall be those specified in the
Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

BOUNDED by a line commencing at the intersection of
roads known as Wilson's Road and the Ferry Road,
and starting from thence along the south side of the
Ferry Road in a westerly direction to the East Town
Belt of the City of Christchurch; from thence along
the east side of the said belt to the South Town Belt
of the said city; and from thence along the south
side of the said belt to the Lower Lincoln Road;
from thence along the southernmost side of the said
Lincoln Road to a road known as Bright's Road;
from thence in a south and easterly direction along
the northenmost side of Bright's Road to a road
known as the Windmill Road; and from thence along
the easternmost side of the said Windmill Road to a
road known as Colombo Road; from thence along
the east side of Colombo Road to a road known as
Piper's Road; and from thence along the north side
of Piper's Road to the River Heathcote; from thence
along the south bank of the said river to Wilson's
Bridge; and from thence northerly along the west
side of Wilson's Road to 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 Coun-
cil; Knight Grand Cross 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 twentieth day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy-seven.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land set apart in Hawke's Bay for Special Settle-
ment.

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

WHEREAS by "The Hawke's Bay Special
Settlements Act, 1872," as amended by
"The Waste Lands Administration Act, 1876," it is,
among other things, enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor, on the recommendation of the
Waste Lands Board, by Proclamation in the Go-
vernment Gazette, to set aside out of the waste
lands within the Land District of Hawke's Bay,
the Native title of which has been extinguished,
any block or blocks of land for special settlement
not exceeding in the whole thirty thousand acres,
on such terms as may be sanctioned by the
Governor in Council, anything in the existing
regulations for the management or disposal of
the waste lands in the province to the con-
trary notwithstanding: Provided always that no
land shall be sold at a less price than land of a
similar description is now sold at under "The Waste
Lands Regulations Act, 1858," and that the proceeds
thereof shall be subject to any lien already imposed
thereon by any Act of the General Assembly:

And whereas the said Board has recommended
that the block of land described in the Schedule
hereto should be set aside for the purpose of special
settlement upon the terms sanctioned by an Order
in Council bearing even date herewith:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the
power vested in me by the said Acts, and upon the
recommendation of the said Waste Lands Board, do
hereby set apart the land described in the Schedule
hereto, being waste lands within the Land District
of Hawke's Bay, for the purpose of such special
settlement, on the terms herein aforesaid referred to.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land situate in the Seventy-Mile
Bush, in the Waipawa County, in the Hawke's Bay
Provincial District, being a portion of the Ahuatura-
nga Block, and estimated to contain three thousand
five hundred and sixty (3560) acres, more or less.
Bounded on the North-east by the Maharahara
Block; on the East by Section 15 of the Heretaunga
Small Farm Association Block; on the South-
east by a straight line running from the south-
western corner of that section to the northernmost
corner of Woodville Rural Section, No. 40; thence
by the north-western boundary of Sections Nos. 40
and 38 to the Maunga Atua River, up that river