788
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
of New Zeland 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
ninth day of June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine.
G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Portion of a Street closed as a Thoroughfare.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the provisions of "The Dunedin Gaol
Street Act, 1877," with reference to the
closing of the public street in the City of Dunedin
known as Gaol Street, have been complied with:
Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, by virtue and in exercise of the power and
authority conferred upon me by "The Dunedin Gaol
Street Act, 1877," aforesaid, do hereby declare that
the portion of the said street described in the
Schedule hereto shall henceforth cease to be a public
street or thoroughfare, and shall be no longer part of
the streets of the City of Dunedin.

SCHEDULE.

THE whole of that portion of Gaol Street lying on
the west side of the original centre line of the said
street, as delineated on the record map of the City
of Dunedin, and deposited in the Survey Office at
Dunedin aforesaid. The said portion of the said
street hereby closed as a street or thoroughfare
being of a uniform width of thirty-three (33) feet,
and comprising the western half of the original
surface of the said street, and extending for the
whole length of the said street—viz., from High
Street to Stuart Street.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished Order of St. 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
ninth day of June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Lands taken for the Purpose of a Portion of the Rail-
way from Amberley to the Bluff, in Sections 57 and
58, Block VII., Waipahee District, Otago.

A MEMORIAL

LAID before His Excellency the Governor by the
Minister for Public Works, pursuant to the provi-
sions of "The Public Works Act, 1876," containing
an accurate description of the lands proposed to be
taken for a certain public work, to wit, the construc-
tion of a portion of the railway from Amberley to the
Bluff, in Sections 57 and 58, Block VII., Waipahee
District, Otago.

All that parcel of land in Section numbered fifty-
seven (57), Block seven (VII.), of the Waipahee
Survey District, in the Provincial District of Otago,
and Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasure-
ment three (3) acres and thirty-eight (38) poles :
Commencing at a point on the south-eastern boundary
of said Section 57 (which point bears 250° 48′, and is
distant 393 links from the south-east corner of said
Section 57), and extending thence in a south-westerly
direction in a curvilinear line with a radius of 59
chains 60 links for a distance of 339 links, thence
again in a south-westerly direction bearing 261° 24′
a distance of 909 links, thence again in a south-
westerly direction in a curvilinear line with a radius
of 40 chains 40 links a distance of 1685 links, thence
again in a south-westerly direction in a line bearing
237° 30′ a distance of 822.9 links. Bounded
towards the North-west by other part of Section 57,
thence in a north-easterly direction bearing 70° 48′
a distance of 434.6 links; bounded towards the
South-east by a railway reserve, thence again in a
north-easterly direction bearing 57° 30′ a distance of
400 links, thence again in a north-easterly direction
in a curvilinear line with a radius of 39 chains 40
links a distance of 1643.5 links, thence again in a
north-easterly direction bearing 81° 24′ a distance of
672 links; bounded towards the South-east by other
part of said Section 57, and thence again in a north-
easterly direction bearing 70° 48′ a distance of 587
links to the point of commencement; bounded towards
the South-east by said railway reserve.

Also all that other parcel of land in Section 58,
Block VII., in the said survey district, containing
by admeasurement two (2) acres two (2) roods and
six (6) poles, more or less: Commencing at the
south-west corner of said Section 58, and extending
thence in a due north direction a distance of 121
links. Bounded on the West by Block XIII. of
the said survey district, thence in a south-easterly
direction in a curvilinear line with a radius of 30
chains 40 links a distance of 1568.7 links, thence
in a south-easterly direction bearing 131° 22′, 325.8
links; bounded on or towards the North-east by
other part of said Section 58, and thence in a north-
westerly direction bearing 295° 48′ a distance of 1811
links to the point of commencement; bounded
towards the South-west by the said railway reserve.
The aforesaid linkages being more or less, and the
land being more particularly delineated on the map
marked P.W.D. 7013, hereto attached.

I, the undersigned, James Temple Fisher, the
Minister acting for the Minister for Public Works,
hereby certify that the above-written memorial is
true and correct in the several particulars thereof.

Witness my hand, this tenth day of June,
1879.
J. T. FISHER,
Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.

Witness to signature—
CHARLES T. BENZONI,
Assistant Under Secretary for Public
Works, Wellington.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

I, HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBIN-
SON, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said colony, in exercise and pursuance
of the power and authority in me vested by sections
twenty-one to twenty-five, both inclusive, of "The
Public Works Act, 1876," and of any other power
and authority enabling me in that behalf, do hereby