FEB. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 177

SCHEDULE.

• Description and Purpose of Reserve.
  Part of Reserve No. 283 (in red), 77 acres, in the Timaru District, Provincial District of Canterbury. For the purpose of a railway station.
• Area of which the Purpose is intended to be Changed.
  All that parcel of land in the Geraldine Survey District, Provincial District of Canterbury, containing 12 acres 1 rood, more or less, being part of Section No. 283 (in red). Bounded— Eastward by the Southern Railway Reserve; Southward by a line bearing 265° 20′ true, drawn from a point on the western boundary of the said reserve, 4035 links north of the north-eastern corner of Section 2692; Westward by the Main South Road; Northward by a line parallel to the southern boundary, and 1149 links distant therefrom; and North-eastward by a road line: and numbered 2449 (in red) on the official map in the Survey Office, Christchurch.
• Intended Purpose.
  For a recreation-ground.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

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

SCHEDULE.

• Description and Purpose of Reserve.
  Allotment No. 9, Manutahi South, in the Provincial District of Taranaki. For a blockhouse.

• Area of which the Purpose is intended to be Changed.
  All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Taranaki, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 3 roods 2 perches, more or less, being part of south-western portion of Section numbered 9 on the map of the Manutahi Settlement, Hawera Survey District. Bounded towards the North-east by a public road, 830 links; towards the South-east by other part of Section 9, 453 links; towards the South-west by Section 8, 830 links; and towards the North-west by a public road, 454 links.

• Intended Purpose.
  recreation-ground.

• Area of which the Purpose is intended to be Changed.
  All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Taranaki, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods 27 perches, more or less, being part of the south-western portion of Section numbered 9 on the map of the Manutahi Settlement, Hawera Survey District. Bounded towards the North-east by a public road, 590 links; towards the South-east by a public road, 452 links; towards the South-west by Section 8, 590 links; and towards the North-west by other part of Section 9, 453 links.

• Intended Purpose.
  As a site for a police station and paddock.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

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

President of the Executive Council appointed.

Executive Council Chamber,
Wellington, 10th February, 1880.
HIS Excellency the Governor is pleased to au-
thorize

The Honorable JOHN HALL
to summon the Executive Council, and to preside during the absence of His Excellency in the South Island.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Changing the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Public Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1878," it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to make, change, exchange, or alter the dedi- cation of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in Her Majesty or the Governor for any of the pur- poses named in Part II. of the Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; ; and, in the case of any reserves made under the authority of section one hundred and forty-four of "The Land Act, 1877," if it shall, in the opinion of the Go- vernor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserves or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Part II., the Governor may, by notice in the Gazette, declare his intention to make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by "The Public Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1878," afore- said, change the specific purpose of the reserve de- scribed in the first column of the said Schedule hereto to the specific purpose set opposite such description in the third column of the said Schedule, and such land shall henceforth be deemed to be reserved and set apart for such last-mentioned specific purpose, and no other.

Proposed Loan, Borough of Invercargill.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th February, 1880.
THE following notice, received from his Worship the Mayor of the Borough of Invercargill, is published in accordance with section 145 of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."

JOHN HALL.

BOROUGH OF INVERCARGILL.—PROPOSED LOAN OF £13,000.

In accordance with "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," I hereby give notice that the votes recorded at a poll of the burgesses of the Borough of Invercargill, held on the 9th day of February, 1880, at the Municipal Hall, Invercargill, on the proposal of the Council of the said borough to raise the sum of £13,000 by way of special loan for the following purposes, that is to say,—