THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 921

And whereas the Land Board of Southland did, on
the fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine, pass a resolution recommending
that the land described in the Schedule hereto
annexed should be set apart for sale on deferred
payments:

And whereas it is expedient to give effect to the
aforesaid recommendation, and to set apart the said
land accordingly:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority vested in me by the above-named Act, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the land described
in the Schedule hereto is set apart for sale on
deferred payments; and that Monday, the eighteenth
day of August, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine, shall be the day on which the said land
shall be open for application at the Land Office at
Invercargill, in allotments as surveyed and marked
on the survey map in the office of the Chief Surveyor.

SCHEDULE.
TOWN OF CALCIUM.

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 Lørd
one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine.

G. GREY,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Appointing a Day for Election of Members for the
Jacob's River Subdivision, Aparima Road Board.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section ten of "The Otago Roads
Ordinance 1871 Amendment Ordinance,
1874," it is enacted that, if from any cause whatever
the persons entitled to vote at any election for any
subdivision of any district shall fail or neglect to hold
an election of members of the District Board of such
district on the day appointed by the said Ordinance
for that purpose, it shall be lawful for the Super-
intendent, by Proclamation in the Gazette, to appoint
a day for the holding of such election, and an election
may be held upon the day so appointed, and the
election so held shall for all purposes whatsoever be
deemed to have been duly held on the day appointed
by the said Ordinance for holding the same: And
whereas the powers and authorities vested in the
Superintendent by the said section are, by "The
Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," now vested in the
Governor: And whereas the persons entitled to
vote in the election of members for the Jacob's River
Subdivision of the Aparima Road District failed on
the day appointed by "The Otago Roads Ordinance,
1871," to hold an election:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert
Robinson, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authori-
ties vested in me by the said Ordinance and Act, do
hereby proclaim and appoint that an election shall
be held on the twenty-first day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine, of members of
the Aparima Road Board for the Jacob's River
Subdivision of the said Aparima Road District.

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. BALLANCE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Defining the Middle Line of the Ellesmere Portion
of the Little River and Akaroa Railway.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS 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-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 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 Minister
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 Little River and
Akaroa Railway is one of the railways specified in
"The Immigration and Public Works Appropriation
Act, 1878," and which Act is therein declared to be
a special Act for the said railway within the meaning
of "The Public Works Act, 1876:" And whereas it
has been determined to construct and maintain a
portion of such railway, namely, from a point within
Section number one thousand seven hundred and
twelve (1,712), in the Springs Road District, to a
point on Birdling's Flat; all within the Provincial
District of Canterbury, Colony of New Zealand:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert
Robinson, 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 behalf, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the middle line of
the said portion of the said railway shall be that de-