THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1101

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 sixth day of August, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.
G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

IN THE MATTER OF THE DUNTROON AND HAKA-
TERAMEA RAILWAY COMPANY (LIMITED), AND
"THE DISTRICT RAILWAYS ACT, 1877."

N
OTICE is hereby given that the Duntroon and
Hakateremea Railway Company (Limited) pro-
pose to construct a railway under the provisions of
the above-mentioned Act from the Township of
Duntroon, in the Provincial District of Otago, to the
Round Hill, Hakateramea Valley, in the Provincial
District of Canterbury; and that the said Company
have, pursuant to the provisions of the said Act,
deposited at each of the several places undermen-
tioned (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 ascer-
tained.

The several places at which plans and books of
reference have been deposited as aforesaid are as
follows: The Duntroon Railway Station, Duntroon,
Otago; the Waimate County Council Offices,
Waimate, Canterbury.

The plan and book of reference at each such place
is 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,
are as follow, that is to say: All that area of land
situate partly in the Provincial District of Otago
and partly in the Provincial District of Canterbury,
estimated to contain by admeasurement 800,000
acres; boundary lines as follow: Commencing at the
point formed by the junction of the Maruwenua
River with the Waitaki River, along the Maruwenua
River and the north branch thereof to the point
formed by the junction of boundaries of Runs Nos.
17, 28, and 362; thence along the boundary line
between Runs Nos. 362, 445 (Crown lands unoccu-
pied), 439, 403, 201, 233, 429A, 421, and 189 on the
one side, and Runs Nos. 17, 28, 23, 243, 160, 322, 2 of
C3 of C, and 2 of C on the other side, to the point
where the boundary line of Run 2 of C touches the
Ohau River; thence along the Ohau River to its
confluence with the Waitaki River, thence along the
Waitaki River in a southerly direction to the point
formed by its junction with the boundary line between
Runs Nos. 236 and 261, thence along the boundary
line between Runs Nos. 236, 311, 578, 577, 296, 265,
and 318 on the one side, and Runs Nos. 261, 295,
360, 441, 197, and 164 on the other side, to the point
formed by the junction of the boundary line between
Runs Nos. 318 and 164 with the western branch of
the Opawa Stream; thence in a straight line through
Run No. 164 to the north-eastern corner of Run No.
163, thence along the boundary line between Runs
Nos. 163, 213, 160, and 161, to the south-western cor-
ner of Run No. 161; thence in a straight line through
Run No. 69 to the north-eastern corner of Run No.
487, thence along the boundary line between Runs
Nos. 487 and 488 to the Waitaki River, in the Pro-
vincial District of Canterbury; thence across the
Waitaki River and along the southern bank thereof
in a south-easterly direction to its confluence with
the Maruwenua River, the point of starting.

The manner in which it is proposed to classify the
lands included in the proposed railway district is as
follows:-

1. Lands receiving or supposed to receive im-
   mediate and direct benefit from the construction of
   the said proposed railway.

All the lands within the following boundaries, com-
prising an estimated area of 140,000 acres, viz.: Com-
mencing at a point formed by the junction of the
Maruwenua River with the Waitaki River, along the
western bank of the Maruwenua River to a point
formed by its intersection with the western boundary
of Section 19, Block VII., Maruwenua Survey Dis-
trict; thence in a north-westerly direction in a direct
line to the north-west corner of Section 1, Block
XIII., Maruwenua District; thence in a northern
direction to a point on the boundary between Runs
Nos. 23 and 28, about 100 chains distant from
its junction with the Waitaki River; thence in a
north-westerly direction to a point on the Waitaki
River above the Kurow Ferry and 80 chains distant
therefrom, thence in a straight line to a point formed
by the junction of the north-western boundary of
Section No. 29561 with the Waitaki River, in the
Provincial District of Canterbury, running in a
north-westerly direction in a direct line to the south-
western corner of Section No. 31625; thence in a
north-easterly direction in a direct line to the south-
western corner of Section No. 30125, thence in a
straight line north-north-east to the north-western
corner of Section No. 31852, thence in a north-
westerly direction to the north-western corner of Sec-
tion No. 29527, thence in a north-easterly direction to
the north-western corner of Section No. 30038, thence
in a north-easterly direction following the course of
the stream forming the northern boundary of Sec-
tions Nos. 30128 and 29868 to its junction with the
Hakateramea River, thence along the Hakateramea
River to its junction with the stream forming portion
of the northern boundary of Section No. 29476,
thence along the stream and the northern and
eastern boundaries of Section No. 29476 to its south-
eastern corner, thence along the north-western boun-
dary of Section No. 29382 to its north-eastern corner,
thence in a straight line in a south-easterly direction
to the south-eastern corner of Section No. 29892,
thence in a south-westerly direction to the north-
eastern corner of Section No. 31636, thence in a
south-westerly direction to the south-eastern corner
of Section No. 29667, thence in a north-easterly
direction following the stream forming the northern
boundary of Section No. 29668 to its north-eastern
corner, thence in a south-westerly direction to the
south-western corner of Section No. 29416, thence
in a north-westerly direction to a point formed by
the junction of the south-western boundary of Sec-
tion No. 28320 with the Hakateramea River, thence
along the Hakateramea River to a point formed by
its junction with the north-eastern boundary of Sec-
tion No. 28299, thence in a straight line to a point
formed by the junction of the south-eastern boun-
dary of Section No. 31630 with the Waitaki River,
across the Waitaki River in a line at right angles to