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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Dog Registrars appointed (Canterbury).

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by "The
(Canterbury) Dog Nuisance Ordinance, Session
XVII., No. 3," "The (Canterbury) Dog Nuisance
Amendment Ordinance, 1862," and "The Abolition
of Provinces Act, 1875," I, Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, do hereby appoint the persons whose names
appear in the first column of the Schedule hereto to
be the persons to register dogs for the places set
opposite their names respectively in the second
column of the said Schedule: And I do further
appoint the places mentioned in the third column of
the said Schedule to be the offices at which persons
shall register their dogs.

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
seventh day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

JOHN HALL.

Setting apart Land in Otago for Agricultural Leases.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fifty-fourth section of "The
Mines Act, 1877," it is, amongst other things,
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor to
cause Crown lands situate within a gold field to be
selected and set apart for the purpose of granting
agricultural leases thereon and therefor, or for
alienation by occupation licenses on deferred pay-
ments under any law for the time being in force in
the land district in which such mining district is
situate:

And whereas the lands described in the Schedule
hereto are Crown lands subject to be dealt with
under the provisions of the said Act, and it is deemed
expedient to set the same apart for the purpose of
granting agricultural leases thereon and therefor:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, do hereby select and set apart, for the purpose
of granting agricultural leases thereon and therefor,
the lands described in the Schedule hereto; and
do fix the fifth day of March next ensuing, at
the Warden's office at Lawrence, as the day and
place on which the said land shall be open for appli-
cation in allotments, as surveyed and marked on the
survey map in the office of the Chief Surveyor,
Dunedin.

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SCHEDULE.

TABLE HILL 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
seventh day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty.

H. A. ATKINSON,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for a Portion of the Waikato-Thames
Railway (Hamilton Branch Section).

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation issued under the
authority of sections one hundred and twenty-
two, one hundred and twenty-three, and one hundred
and twenty-four of "The Public Works Act, 1876,"
the middle line of the branch line of railway to
Hamilton, being one of the railways specified in
"The Immigration and Public Works Appropriation
Act, 1878," was defined: And whereas, pursuant to
the one hundred and twenty-fifth section of "The
Public Works Act, 1876," the Minister for Public
Works has caused to be made and, on the twelfth
day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine, to be deposited in the office of the Registrar of
the Supreme Court at Auckland, such maps and plans
as were necessary to explain the said line of railway
and the land through which the same passes, and such
maps and plans were referred to in such Proclamation
as aforesaid: And whereas the railway from Waikato
to the Thames is one of the railways specified in "The
Public Works Act, 1879," and the Hamilton Branch
is now part of the said railway, and it is enacted
therein that such of the railways mentioned as are
unfinished may be completed under the provisions of
"The Public Works Act, 1876," "The Public Works
Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1878," and "The Public
Works Act, 1879:" And whereas the land described
in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for the
Hamilton Branch section of the said line of railway:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred by the sixth section of "The
Public Works Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1878," and
of every power and authority in that behalf, doth
hereby proclaim and declare that the land described
in the Schedule hereto is taken for the said part of
the said line of railway from Waikato to the Thames,