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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

and the same is unfinished, and it has been deter-
mined to construct and maintain a further portion of
such railway, namely, from a point in Section No. 5,
Block II., Aparima Hundred, to a point in Section
No. 14, Block VII., Township of Otautau, all in the
County of Wallace and Provincial District of Otago:
Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, 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 behalf, do hereby pro-
claim and declare that the middle line of the said
portion of the said branch line of railway shall be
that defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.
The said middle line and the land through which the
same passes are set forth in the map and plan
marked P.W.D. 7062 and authenticated for the pur-
poses 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
Invercargill, in the Provincial District of Otago.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in Section No. 5, Block II.,
Aparima Hundred, and proceeding thence in a
generally north-westerly direction for a distance of
54 chains or thereabouts, passing in, into, through,
or over the following lands: Aparima Hundred,
Block II.; Township of Otautau, Section No. 28;
Block IV., Sections 10, 9, 8, 7, 14, 15, 6, 16, 17, 18,
19, and 20; Block V., Sections 26 and 23; Block
VIII., Section 1; Block VII., Sections 3, 2, 1; and
terminating at a point in Section No. 14, Block VII.,
said point being the point of termination of the
portion of the Railway, Otautau to Nightcaps, dated
the 30th May, 1879, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette No. 60, of the 5th June, 1879; all
within the County of Wallace, Provincial District of
Otago, Colony of New Zealand; including all adjoin-
ing and intervening places, lands, roads, reserves,
streams, rivers, and watercourses; in the manner
delineated on the map and plan marked P.W.D.
7062, signed by the he Honorable James Macandrew,
Minister for Public Works, deposited in the office
of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Inver-
cargill, in the Provincial District of Otago; the total
length being 54 chains or thereabouts.

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

J. MACANDREW.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land adjoining Mount Ida Water-race within Otago
Gold Field declared to be a Water-race.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

W
HEREAS by "The Public Works Act, 1876,"
it is, among other things, enacted that the
Governor may, by Proclamation, declare any land
therein specified, being within a proclaimed gold
field, to be a water-race:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robin-
son, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the strip or areas of land within the
Otago Gold Field described in the Schedule hereto
shall be and the same are hereby declared to be a
water-race for the purposes of the said Act. And I
do hereby proclaim and declare that the course
and limits of the said water-race are set out and
described in and upon a plan thereof, deposited in the
office of the Warden of the Mount Ida Gold Field
at Naseby, in the Provincial District of Otago, and
which said plan is authenticated for the purposes of
this Proclamation by the signature of the Honorable
James Macandrew, the Minister for Public Works.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area situate in the Naseby and Maniototo
Survey Districts of Otago, containing by admeasure-
ment one hundred and twenty acres, more or less,
being a strip of land two chains wide and about seven
and a half miles long, extending from the Mount Ida
Head Water-race to the Hogburn Sludge Channel,
and having for its middle line the bed of Watercress
Creek; also all that parcel of land in the Maniototo
Survey District of Otago, containing by admeasure-
ment ten acres, more or less, situated at the con-
fluence of Watercress Creek with the Hogburn
Sludge Channel. Bounded towards the East by the
said channel, ten chains; towards the South by a
line commencing six chains south of the confluence
aforesaid, and running westerly ten chains; towards
the West by a line at right angles to the last boun-
dary, ten chains; and towards the North by a line at
right angles to the last boundary, ten chains, to a
point in the said sludge channel four chains north of
its confluence with Watercress Creek: the several
parcels of land being more particularly delineated in
red upon the map or plan marked P.W.D. 7074,
deposited in the office of the Warden at Naseby, in
the Provincial District of Otago.

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

J. MACANDREW.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land set apart on Deferred Payments in Southland.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

W
HEREAS by the fifty-third section of "The
Land Act, 1877," it is enacted that the
Governor, by Proclamation in the Gazette, may from
time to time set apart out of any suburban or rural
lands such blocks or allotments of land as he shall
think fit, and set the same aside for sale on deferred
payments, and in such Proclamation may fix a day
on which the land shall be open for application; and
that he may also in like manner set apart for sale on
deferred payments such blocks or allotments as may
be recommended by any Land Board, and may also
from time to time alter, amend, or revoke any such
Proclamation: