Numb. 30.
497

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1882.

Her Majesty's Assent to "The Chinese Immigrants
Act, 1881," notified.

Defining the Middle Line of Portion of the Waitaki-
Bluff Railway. - Branch from Edendale to Toitois
(Mokoreta Contract.)

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

W HEREAS by an Act passed in the session of
Parliament held in the fifteenth and sixteenth
years of Her Majesty's reign, entitled "An Act to
grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony
of New Zealand," it is, amongst other things,
enacted that no Bill which shall be reserved for the
signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon shall
have any force or authority within the Colony of
New Zealand until the Governor of the said colony
shall signify, by Speech or Message, to the Legisla-
tive Council or House of Representatives of the said
colony, or by Proclamation, that such Bill has been
laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her
Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same:

W HEREAS the branch line of railway from Eden-
dale to Toitois, from the main line, Waitaki
to Bluff, 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 determined to
construct and maintain a further portion of such
railway:

And whereas a certain Bill passed by the Legisla-
tive Council and the House of Representatives of
the said colony, No. 47, of 1881, entitled "An Act
to regulate the Immigration of Chinese," was pre-
sented to the Governor of the said colony for Her
Majesty's assent, and the said Bill was reserved for
the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exer-
cise 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 further portion
of the said railway shall be from a point in Section
number five, Block ten, Township of Wyndham, to a
point in Section number fourteen, Block five, Wynd-
ham Survey District, all in the Provincial District of
Otago, as defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance of the provisions of the said in part recited
Act, do, by this Proclamation, signify and proclaim
to all whom it may concern that the said Bill has
been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that
Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same.

The said middle line and the land through which the
same passes are set forth in the map and plan marked
P.W.D. 8933, and authenticated for the purposes of
this Proclamation by the signature of the Honorable
John Hall, Minister acting for the Minister for Public
Works, and which said map and plan is deposited in
the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at
Invercargill, in the Provincial District of Otago.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Dis-
tinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Her Majesty's High
Commissioner for the Western Pacific,
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 Christ-
church, this twenty-fifth day of March, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-two.

SCHEDULE.

JOHN HALL.

COMMENCING at a point in the Wyndham Railway
Station, on the railway from Edendale to Toitois, the
said point being within the limits of deviation of the
railway from Edendale to Toitois, as described in the
Proclamation dated the 18th April, 1879, and pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette No. 46, of the 24th
April, 1879; and proceeding thence generally in a
south-south-easterly direction for a distance of 3
miles 63 chains or thereabouts, passing in, into,
through, or over the following lands, viz., Wyndham
Township, Block X., Section 5, Block IX., Sections

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