Numb. 111.
1565

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1878.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1878.

Extension of Time for Election of Councillors for
Ashburton, South Rakaia, and Mount Hutt.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Christchurch, this
eighth day of November, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two hundred and eleven
of "The Counties Act, 1876," it is enacted
that, within the period of twenty-one days before or
after the day appointed for the holding of any
election, or of any meeting of Councillors, or for the
doing of any act, matter, or thing by the said Act
required to be done on or before a day certain, it
shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to extend
the time allowed for the holding of such election or
meeting of Councillors, or for the doing of any such
act, matter, or thing as aforesaid, notwithstanding
the day may have passed on which the same ought
to have been held or done, and to adopt or cause to
be adopted such measures as may be necessary to re-
move any obstacle of a technical or formal nature by
which the carrying out of the provisions of this Act
may be impeded, and to supply any deficiency which
may be required to be supplied in order to enable the
said provisions to be duly carried out. And such
measure so adopted by the Governor in Council shall
be duly notified in the Gazette:

And whereas by the said Act a general election of
the Council of the County of Ashburton is appointed
to be held on the second Wednesday in November,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and
it is expedient, so far as the election of Council-
lors for the several ridings of Ashburton, South
Rakaia, and Mount Hutt in the said county are con-
cerned, to extend the time for holding such elections
until Wednesday, the twenty-seventh day of Novem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,

Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in
exercise of the powers and authorities aforesaid, do
hereby extend the time for holding the general elec-
tion of Councillors for the several ridings of Ashbur-
ton, South Rakaia, and Mount Hutt, so appointed to
be held on the second Wednesday in November, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, until
Wednesday, the twenty-seventh day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

FRED. LE PATOUREL,
(for the Clerk of the Executive Council).

IN THE MATTER OF THE WAIMATE RAILWAY
COMPANY (LIMITED), AND "THE DISTRICT RAIL-
WAYS ACT, 1877."
—

NOTICE is hereby given that the Waimate Rail-
way Company (Limited) propose to construct
a railway under the provisions of the above-mentioned
Act, from the Waimate Branch Railway at Waimate,
in the Provincial District of Canterbury, to a ter-
minus in Section No. 18844, near Pudding Hill, in
the provincial district aforesaid, and that the said
Company have, pursuant to the provisions of the
said Act, deposited at the places undermentioned (1)
a plan on which is set forth the middle line and
direction of the said proposed railway; and (2) a
book of reference describing the same, showing the
lands required to be taken for the said proposed
railway, and the names of the owners and occupiers
of such lands, so far as they can be ascertained.

The places at which such plan and book of re-
ference have been deposited as aforesaid are the
Waimate County Council Offices, Canterbury, and
the Public Works Office, Dunedin.

The plan and book of reference are there open for
public inspection without any fee.

Notice is also hereby given that the area which it
is proposed to constitute a railway district for the
purposes of the said Act, and the boundaries thereof,