THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1151

special Act for the said railway within the meaning | Land set apart on Deferred Payments in Southland.
of "The Public Works Act, 1876:" And whereas
it has been determined to construct and maintain a (L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
portion of such railway :
Now, therefore, I, 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 sections one hundred
and twenty-two, one hundred and twenty-three, one
hundred and twenty-four, and one hundred and
twenty-five of "The Public Works Act, 1876," and
in exercise of every other power and authority en-
abling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the middle line of the said portion of
the said railway shall be from a point in Section
twenty-six, Block nine, Awamoko Survey District,
to a point in Section four, Block one, Maruwenua
Survey District, all within the Provincial District
of Otago, Colony of New Zealand, as 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. 7147, 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 Dunedin, in
the Provincial District of Otago.

A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS 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 :

And whereas the Land Board of Southland did, on
the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy-nine, pass a resolution recommend-
ing 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 de-
ferred payments; and that Thursday, the twenty-fifth
day of September, 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.

COMMENCING at a point in Block IX., Awamoko
Survey District, the said point being within the
limits of a portion of the Waiareka Branch Railway,
as described in the Proclamation dated the 10th
September, 1874, and published in the New Zea-
land Gazette No. 49, of the 11th September, 1874;
proceeding thence in a generally north-easterly,
south-easterly, and easterly direction for a distance
of 5 miles 38 chains or thereabouts, and passing in,
into, through, or over the following lands, &c.: Awa-
moko Survey District-Block IX., Rural Section
26; Block X., Sections Nos. 9, 6, 13, 15, 17, 3,
and 2; Block VII., Section No. 21; Maruwenua
Survey District, Block I., Sections Nos. 10, 30, 29,
28, 38, 31; and terminating at a point in Section 4,
Block I., aforesaid; all within the Provincial District
of Otago, Colony of New Zealand; and including all
adjoining and intervening places, lands, roads, re-
serves, streams, rivers, and watercourses; in the
manner delineated on the map and plan marked
P.W.D. 7147, signed by the Honorable James
Macandrew, Minister for Public Works, deposited in
the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at
Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago; the
total length being 5 miles 38 chains or thereabouts.

SCHEDULE.

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
fifteenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine.

J. MACANDREW.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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
fifteenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.

JAMES W. THOMSON,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Appointing a Day for Election of a Member for the
Waihola West Subdivision, Waipori Road District.

(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,