Numb. 46.
703

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1882.

Defining the Middle Line of further Portion of the
Makarewa River to Riverton and Orepuki Railway,
(Western Railways)-Roundhill and Pahia Con-
tracts.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the line of railway from Makarewa
River to Riverton and Orepuki (Western
Railways), 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
such railway:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
and in pursuance of the powers and authorities con-
ferred 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 Block eighteen,
Jacob's River Hundred, to a point in Block two,
Longwood District, Provincial District of Otago, 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. 8985, and authenticated for the purposes of
this Proclamation by the signature of the Honorable
Walter Woods Johnston, Minister for Public Works,
and which said map and plan is deposited in the office
of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Invercar-
gill, in the Provincial District of Otago.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in Block XVIII., Jacob's
River Hundred, which point is within the limits of
deviation of a portion of the railway from Riverton
to Orepuki, as described in the Proclamation dated
the 9th May, 1879, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette No. 51, dated the 15th May, 1879; pro-
ceeding thence generally in a north-westerly direction
for a distance of 11 miles 60 chains or thereabouts;
passing in, into, through or over the following land,
viz.: Railway reserve in said Block XVIII.; rail-
way reserves and Section No. 184, in Block XI.,
Longwood District; railway reserve in Block VIII.,
Longwood District; railway reserve in Block VII.,
Longwood District; railway reserve, Sections Nos. 8,
9, 14, 5, 3, 19, 22, and 21, in Block V., Longwood
District; railway reserves, Sections Nos. 8, 6, 16, 17,
and 18, and Crown Lands in Block II., Longwood
District; and terminating at a point in said Block
II., distant about 18 chains in a south-westerly
direction from Trig. Station A: including all ad-
joining and intervening places, lands, roads, reserves,
streams, rivers, and watercourses; all within the
County of Wallace, Provincial District of Otago,
Colony of New Zealand; in the manner delineated
upon the plan marked P.W.D. 8985, signed by the
Honorable Walter Woods Johnston, Minister for
Public Works, and 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 the
Government House, at Wellington, this
seventeenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!