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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
tion numbered fifty-two (52), to Pelichet Bay, one
thousand and ninety (1090) links; thence towards
the West by Pelichet Bay, one thousand three
hundred (1300) links; thence towards the North-
west by the Town Belt of Dunedin, two thousand
five hundred (2500) links; thence again towards the
South-west by said Town Belt of Dunedin, eight
thousand five hundred and fifty (8550) links, and
also by Sections numbered respectively one (1),
two (2), three (3), and four (4), Block eight
(VIII.), Upper Kaikorai District, one thousand
six hundred and fifty (1650) links; thence again
towards the North-west by a road line, and by
a right line to and along the north-western
boundary of Section numbered six (6), Block ten
(X.), North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District,
four thousand six hundred (4600) links; thence
again towards the North-west by Section numbered
five (5), said Block ten (X.), one thousand four
hundred and thirty-four (1434) links; thence again
towards the North-west by Section numbered sixty-
seven (67), Block eleven (XI.), North Harbour and
Blueskin Survey District, one thousand six hundred
and fifty-four (1654) links; and thence again towards
the South-west by Section numbered sixty-seven (67),
a road line, Section numbered sixty-eight (68), and
part of a road line, four thousand nine hundred and
four (4904) links, to the starting point; be all the
aforesaid linkages more or less, as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan deposited in the
Survey Office, Dunedin.

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 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 twenty-fifth
day of October, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
seven.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Town of Milton proclaimed a Borough under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."

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

WHEREAS by the fifteenth section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," it is
enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation,
declare any of the several places specified in the
Third Schedule to the said Act in which a Municipal
Corporation has been established under the provi-
sions of an Ordinance of the Province of Otago
intituled "The Otago Municipal Corporations Ordi-
nance, 1865," to be a borough constituted under the
said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," from a
day to be named in such Proclamation; subject,
however, to certain conditions in the said section
mentioned: And whereas the Town of Milton, in
the Provincial District of Otago, is one of the places

specified in the said Third Schedule, and a petition
has been presented to his Excellency the Governor
by sixty-two of the ratepayers of such town, praying
him to constitute such town into a borough under
the said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," and
such petition was, on the twenty-fourth day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
seven, publicly notified, and no petition from an
equal or greater number of such ratepayers was
presented to His Excellency within two months after
such public notification praying him not to assent to
the prayer of such first-mentioned petition:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities
enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby proclaim
and declare that from the twenty-fifth day of October,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, the
said Town of Milton shall be a borough constituted
under the said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,"
and shall be called the Borough of Milton; and that
the boundaries of such borough shall be those
specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Otago,
containing by admeasurement one hundred and
eighty-three (183) acres three (3) roods thirty-one
(31) perches, more or less, being Sections numbered
respectively one hundred and thirty-four (134), one
hundred and thirty-five (135), and one hundred and
thirty-seven (137), Block seventeen (XVII.), Toko-
mairiro Survey District; and parts of Sections num-
bered respectively one hundred and thirty (130), one
hundred and thirty-one (131), and one hundred and
thirty-two (132), Block sixteen (XVI.), Tokomairiro
Survey District, together with part of Section num-
bered one hundred and two (102), Block twelve
(XII.), of the said district. Bounded towards the
North-west by a line commencing at the western corner
of section one hundred and thirty-four (134), Block
seventeen (XVII.), Tokomairiro District, proceeding
in a north-easterly direction along the Main South
Road one thousand and three (1003) links; thence
crossing the Main South Road at a right angle in a
north-westerly direction to a point two hundred and
fourteen (214) links distant from the north-western
side of the Main South Road; thence at a right angle
in a north-easterly direction two hundred and thirty-
five (235) links; thence at a right-angle in a north-
westerly direction three hundred and forty-six (346)
links; thence at a right angle in a north-easterly direc-
tion one thousand six hundred and sixty-two (1662)
links; thence at a right angle in a south-easterly
direction three hundred and ten (310) links to a
point two hundred and fifty (250) links distant from
the Main South Road; and thence at a right angle in
a north-easterly direction across Sections one hundred
and thirty-one (131) and one hundred and thirty
(130), Block sixteen (XVI.), three thousand and
thirty (3030) links; thence crossing the District
Road in the same direction to Section one hundred
and two (102), Block twelve (XII.), sixty (60) links;
thence at a right angle along the north-eastern
boundary of the said road line in a north-westerly
direction three hundred (300) links; thence at a
right angle in a north-easterly direction across Sec-
tion one hundred and two (102), Block twelve
(XII.), one thousand five hundred (1500) links;
thence at a right angle in a south-easterly direction
five hundred and fifty (550) links to the Main South
Road; thence in a south-westerly direction along the
Main South Road, crossing the District Road, to the
eastern corner of Section one hundred and thirty
(130), Block sixteen (XVI.), one thousand five hun-
dred and sixty (1560) links; thence crossing the
Main South Road at a right angle to the northern