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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Railway Company (Limited) propose to construct a
railway under the said Act, and to constitute a Rail-
way District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-third day of Octo-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.
J. MACANDREW.

Warrant ordering and directing Times, Places, Man-
ner, and Form Votes are to be taken in the Railway
District, Waimea Plains Railway.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The District Railways Act,
1877," it is, amongst other things, enacted
that the Governor may from time to time, by warrant
duly gazetted, order and direct at what times, places,
and in what manner and form the ratepayers and
owners of property shall vote within a proposed
railway district: And whereas the Waimea Plains
Railway Company (Limited) propose to construct
within the Provincial District of Otago a railway
under the said Act, and it is necessary to order and
direct the times and places, and the manner and form
of taking the votes of the ratepayers and owners in

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities vested in me by "The Rating Act, 1876,"
do hereby appoint the person named in the Schedule hereto to be the Judge of the Assessment Courts for
the districts placed opposite his name.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
G. S. WHITMORE.

Knapdale Road District ... ... ... Henry McCulloch, Esq., R.M.
Otaraia Road District ... ... ... Henry McCulloch, Esq., R.M.

Articles of Agreement between McMeckan, Blackwood, and Co., and the Postmaster-General.

ARTICLES of Agreement made this second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight, between James McMeckan and John Hutchison Blackwood, both of
Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, carrying on business in copartnership as Shipowners under the
style or firm of "McMeckan, Blackwood, and Company" (hereinafter styled "the Contractors"), of
the one part, and the Honorable James Temple Fisher, the Postmaster-General of the Colony of New
Zealand, on behalf of the Government of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of "The New
Zealand Post Office Act, 1858," of the other part, WITNESS that, for the considerations hereinafter
mentioned, the said Contractors, for themselves, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns,
covenant with the said Postmaster-General and his successors in office, hereinafter styled "the Post-
master-General":--

1. That at all times during the continuance of this agreement, or so long as the service hereby
   agreed to be performed between Melbourne and Wellington ought to be performed in pursuance
   thereof, the Contractors will, for the purpose of conveying, as hereinafter provided, all Her Majesty's
   Mails, which shall at any time, and from time to time, by the Postmaster-General, or any of his officers
   or agents, be required to be conveyed, provide and keep seaworthy, and in complete repair, for such
   conveyance, once each way every four weeks between Melbourne and Wellington, a sufficient number
   of good, substantial, and efficient steam vessels for the said service.

The term "Mails," used in this agreement, shall mean and include all letters, boxes, bags, or
packets of letters, newspapers, books, or printed papers, sent by the post, to whatever country or place
they may be addressed, or in whatever country or place they may have originated; and all empty bags
and other stores, used or to be used in carrying on the Post Office service, which shall be sent by or to
or from the Post Office.

the railway district proposed to be constituted by
the said Company:

Now know ye that I, George Augustus Constan-
tine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of New
Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority
in me vested by the said Act, do hereby order and
direct that, on the twenty-eighth day of November
next, the votes of the ratepayers and owners of pro-
perty within the railway district proposed by the
said Company shall be taken at the several places
specified in the Schedule hereto, in the manner and
form prescribed by the regulations set forth in a
warrant dated the eleventh day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight, and published in
the New Zealand Gazette of the eleventh day of July,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

SCHEDULE.

Police Camp, Gore.
The Railway Station, Lumsden.
Gillander's Homestead, on Run 194, Wakaia.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-third day of Octo-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.
J. MACANDREW.

Judge of Assessment Courts under "The Rating Act, 1876," appointed.

NORMANBY, Governor.

SCHEDULE.

Districts.
Judge of Assessment Courts.

PROVINCIAL DISTRICT OF OTAGO.

Henry McCulloch, Esq., R.M.
Henry McCulloch, Esq., R.M.