THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 563

and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Auckland, this
thirtieth day of April, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.
J. MACANDREW.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Defining the Middle Line of portion of the Railway
from Napier to a junction with the Railway from
New Plymouth to Waitara at Sentry Hill, passing
by Pakipaki, Waipawa, Waipukurau, Takapau, the
Manawatu Gorge, Bunnythorpe, and Wanganui
(length about 12 miles 70 chains).

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

W HEREAS by the one hundred and twenty-
second section of "The Public Works Act,
1876," it is enacted that every railway shall be made
only under the authority of a special Act, which
shall state as nearly as may be the line of the railway
and the two termini thereof; and by the one hundred
and twenty-third section of the same Act, that the
several railways specified in the Fourth Schedule to
the said Act shall be deemed to have been made, and
in so far as any of them are unfinished may be com-
pleted, under the provisions of the Act now under
recital, and the said Act shall be deemed to be a
special Act authorizing the construction of each of
the said railways; and by the one hundred and
twenty-fourth section of the same Act, that when
any railway is to be constructed under the provisions
of any special Act the Governor shall issue a Procla-
mation defining the middle line of the railway or any
part thereof, and may from time to time, by a Pro-
clamation revoking or amending such former Pro-
clamation, alter such line in any manner or to any
extent which may be found necessary for the con-
struction of such railway within the provisions of the
said special Act; and by the one hundred and
twenty-fifth section of the same Act, that the Minis-
ter shall cause to be made and deposited in the office
of the Registrar of the Supreme Court such maps
and plans as may be necessary to explain the said
line and the land through which the same passes,
and such maps and plans shall be referred to in any
such Proclamation; and whereas the railway from
Napier to a junction with the railway from New
Plymouth to Waitara at Sentry Hill, passing by Paki-
paki, Waipawa, Waipukurau, Takapau, the Mana-
watu Gorge, Bunnythorpe, and Wanganui, is one of
the railways specified in the said Fourth Schedule,
and the same is unfinished, and it has been deter-
mined to construct and maintain a further portion
of such railway:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in exercise and in pursuance of the
powers and authorities conferred on me by "The
Public Works Act, 1876," and in exercise of every
other power and authority enabling me in that be-
half, do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle
line of the said further portion of the said railway
shall be that defined and set forth in the Schedule
hereto, and that the two termini of the said line shall
be a point in the Kai Iwi Block, County of Wanga-
nui, Provincial District of Wellington, and a point in
the Wairoa Survey District, County of Patea, Pro-
vincial District of Wellington. The said middle line
and the land through which the same passes are set
forth in the map and plan marked P.W.D. 6358, and
authenticated for the purposes of this Proclamation
by the signature of the Honorable James Macandrew,

Minister for Public Works, and which said map and
plan is deposited in the Office of the Registrar of the
Supreme Court at Wellington, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in the Kai Iwi Block, within
the County of Wanganui, Provincial District of
Wellington, Colony of New Zealand, the said point
being the termination of a portion of the railway
from Waitara to Wanganui, as described in the Pro-
clamation dated the second day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette No. 22, of the thirteenth day
of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six; and proceeding thence generally in a south-
westerly direction for a distance of 226 chains or
thereabouts; thence generally in a north-north-
westerly direction 50 chains or thereabouts; thence
generally in a west-south-westerly direction 220
chains or thereabouts; thence generally in a north-
westerly direction 90 chains or thereabouts; thence
generally in a westerly direction 150 chains or there-
abouts; thence generally in a north-north-westerly
direction 80 chains or thereabouts; thence generally
in a south-westerly direction 145 chains or there-
abouts; thence generally in a north-westerly direc-
tion 70 chains or thereabouts to a point marked 22
miles 25 chains, and situate in the Wairoa Survey
District, County of Patea, Provincial District of
Wellington, in the manner delineated on the map
marked P.W.D. 6358, signed by the Honorable
James Macandrew, Minister for Public Works,
deposited in the Office of the Registrar of the Su-
preme Court, at Wellington, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Wellington, the total length being 12 miles
70 chains, or thereabouts.

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 Auckland, this
thirtieth day of April, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.

J. MACANDREW.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

"Nelson Dog Nuisance Act, 1863," in force within
the Takaka Road District.

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

W HEREAS by an Act of the Provincial Council
of Nelson intituled "The Nelson Dog Nuis-
ance Act (Session X., No. 5), 1863," it is, among
other things, enacted that the said Act shall come
into operation in such districts as shall be proclaimed
by the Superintendent upon the request of a majority
of the resident electors in such district, on a day to
be fixed by the Superintendent by notice in the
Government Gazette, to come within the operation of