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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

fined 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. 7081, 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 Christ-
church, in the Provincial District of Canterbury.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point situate within Section No.
1712, in the Springs Road District, the said point
'being within the limits of a portion of the railway
'from Racecourse to Southbridge, as described in the
"Proclamation dated the 27th March, 1873, and pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette No. 18, of same
date; proceeding thence in a generally south-easterly,
easterly, and north-easterly direction for a distance
of 17 miles or thereabouts, and passing in, into,
through, or over the following lands, &c.: Springs
Road District, Sections Nos. 1712, 2755, 8217, 9754,
17202, 10399, 10139, 9526, 5608, 5631, 6901, 7431,
12739, and Lake Reserve; Little River Road Dis-
trict, Sections Nos. 3296, 681, 6646, 6643, 4073, 2275,
2566, 31523, 24354; and terminating at a point on
Birdling's Flat, all within the Provincial District of
Canterbury, Colony of New Zealand; and including
all adjoining and intervening places, lands, roads,
reserves, streams, rivers, and watercourses; in the
manner delineated on the map and plan markod
P.W.D. 7081, signed by the Honorable James
Macandrew, Minister for Public Works, deposited
in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme
Court at Christchurch, in the Provincial District of
Canterbury; the total length being 17 miles or there-
abouts.

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
Wellington, this eighth day of July,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.

J. MACANDREW.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
(L.S.)

Alteration of Rates of Postage.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The New Zealand Post
Office Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time,
by Proclamation to be published in the New Zealand Gazette, to fix, alter, and abolish the rates of postage
at any time payable within the colony for the transmission of letters and newspapers by post, either between
places within New Zealand or to or from places beyond seas, and at what time the same shall be paid, and
that the postage so made payable shall be charged and paid accordingly: And whereas by Proclamation
duly made and issued, bearing date the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fourth day of October, in the same year,
the Governor in Council did, in pursuance of the said recited power and authority, fix certain rates of
postage to be paid within the colony for the transmission of all letters and newspapers and packets by post
to or from the countries and places mentioned in the Schedule thereto, and the times at which the same
'respectively should be paid as therein mentioned: And whereas by Proclamations duly made and issued,
bearing dates the fourteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, the four-
teenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and the fifteenth day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and published respectively in the New Zealand Gazettes of

• the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, the sixteenth day of Sep-
  tember, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and the twenty-second day of February, one
  thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, the rates of postage fixed by the Proclamation of the twenty-
  ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, first above mentioned, were altered
  as set forth in the respective Schedules to the several Proclamations above quoted: And whereas it is
  desirable that the said rates and amended rates of postage should be altered, and that other rates of postage
  should be fixed as hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the said recited power
and authority, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby alter the
rates of postage fixed to be paid within the colony for the transmission of letters to the countries and
places set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth proclaim and declare that the postage payable within the
colony for the transmission of all letters, newspapers, and packets by post to the countries and places
mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall be according to the rates mentioned in such Schedule, and that
such postage shall in all cases be paid at the time such letters, newspapers, and packets are delivered into
the post; and, with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth further proclaim and declare that this
Proclamation shall take effect from and after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine.