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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

proposed roadway leading from tramway brakes to
No. 1 Branch, Waitekauri Stream; Northerly by
No. 1 Branch, Waitekauri Stream; Easterly by
Corbett's business site.

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
twenty-first day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty.
H. A. ATKINSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Defining the Middle Line of Portion of the Railway
from Nelson to Greymouth (Stillwater Section).

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

WHEREAS the railway from Nelson to Grey-
mouth is one of the railways specified in the
First Schedule to "The Public Works Act, 1879,"
and which Act is therein declared to be a special
Act authorizing the construction of such railway;
and the same is unfinished, and it has been deter-
mined to construct and maintain a further portion
of railway:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robin-
son, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
exercise and in pursuance of the powers and authori-
ties 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
enabling 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 situate in Coal
Reserve numbered two hundred and seventy-four,
distant about one hundred and thirty links south-
easterly from the northern boundary of said reserve
to a point in said Coal Reserve numbered two hun-
dred and seventy-four distant about four chains
north-westerly from the intersection of the Grey-
mouth to Reefton Road, all within the County of
Grey, Provincial District of Westland, Colony of
New Zealand, as defined and set forth in the Sche-
dule 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. 7391, and authen-
ticated for the purposes of this Proclamation by
the signature of the Honorable Richard Oliver,
Minister for Public Works, and which said map and
plan is deposited in the office of the Registrar of
the Supreme Court at Hokitika, in the Provincial
District of Westland.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point situate in Coal Reserve
No. 274, the said point being within the limits of
deviation of a portion of the railway from Brunner
to Greymouth, as described in the Proclamation
dated the 30th December, 1874, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette No. 69, of the 31st December,
1874; proceeding thence in a generally easterly
direction for a distance of 1 mile or thereabouts,
passing in, into, through, or over the following lands,
&c.: Maori Creek Riding, and terminating at a
point in Coal Reserve No. 274, all within County of

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Grey, Provincial District of Westland, Colony of
New Zealand; and including all adjoining and inter-
vening places, lands, roads, reserves, streams, rivers,
and watercourses; in the manner delineated upon the
plan marked P.W.D. 7391, signed by the Hon.
Richard Oliver, Minister for Public Works, de-
posited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme
Court at Hokitika, in the Provincial District of
Westland; the total length being 1 mile 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 the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-fifth day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
R. OLIVER.

Town of Gladstone proclaimed a Borough under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."

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

WHEREAS by the fifteenth section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," it is
enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation,
declare any of the several places specified in the
Third Schedule to the said Act in which a Municipal
Corporation has been established under the provi-
sions of an Ordinance of the Province of Otago
intituled "The Otago Municipal Corporations Ordi-
nance, 1865," to be a borough constituted under the
said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," from a
day to be named in such Proclamation; subject, how-
ever, to certain conditions in the said section men-
tioned: And whereas the Town of Gladstone, in
the Provincial District of Otago, is one of the places
specified in the said Third Schedule, and a petition
has been presented to His Excellency the Governor
by fifty-two of the ratepayers of such town praying
him to constitute such town into a borough under
the said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," and
such petition was, on the fifth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, publicly
notified, and no petition from an equal or greater
number of such ratepayers was presented to His Excel-
lency within two months after such public notification
praying him not to assent to the prayer of such first-
mentioned petition:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities
enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby proclaim and
declare that, from and after the date of this Proclama-
tion, the said Town of Gladstone shall be a borough
constituted under the said "Municipal Corporations
Act, 1876," and shall be called the Borough of Glad-
stone; and that the boundaries of such borough shall
be those specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Southland Division of
the Provincial District of Otago, containing by ad-
measurement 98 acres 1 rood 31 perches, more or less.
Bounded towards the North by the Waihopai River;
towards the East by a road 100 links, and by section
No. 26, Block I., Invercargill Hundred, 3360 links;
towards the South by Sections Nos. 23, 24, and 29 of