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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

297, 408, and 849 links respectively; South-easterly by
a line, 143 links; South-westerly by a line, 1389 links;
South-easterly by a line, 101 links; North-easterly
by a line, 1406 links; South-easterly by lines, 157
and 520 links respectively; North-easterly by lines
to commencing point, 308 and 854 links respectively.

All the above areas and linkages are either more
or less, and the several parcels of land being situate
in the Provincial District of Auckland, Colony of
New Zealand, and are more particularly delineated
upon the plan marked P.W.D. 8330, deposited in
the office of the Minister for Public Works, Welling-
ton, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice,
the Administrator of the Government of
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
eighteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for Portion of Waitaki-Bluff Railway.—
(In Township of Mataura.)

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a certain railway was proclaimed in
the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-second
day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two, under the name of the Invercargill and Mataura
Railway, and the said railway now forms part of the
Waitaki-Bluff Railway:

And whereas the two hundred and twenty-ninth
section of "The Public Works Act, 1882," enacts that
any public work authorized under the authority of
any Act repealed by this Act, or of any Act or Ordi-
nance repealed by "The Public Works Act, 1876,"
and any land required to be taken, purchased, or
acquired for such work, or anything commenced
under any such authority as aforesaid, may be con-
tinued, taken, purchased, or acquired, executed,
carried out, enforced, and completed under the pro-
visions of this Act:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule
hereto is required for a portion of the said railway:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand,
by virtue and in pursuance of the power conferred
upon him by the one hundred and thirtieth and
two hundred and twenty-ninth sections of "The
Public Works Act, 1882," and of every other power
and authority in anywise enabling him in that behalf,
doth hereby proclaim and declare that the said land
so described in the Schedule hereto is taken for the
said portion of the said railway.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land containing by admeasurement
18 perches, situate in Sections Nos. 13 and 14, Block
XIII.; commencing at the western corner of said
Section No. 13. Bounded towards the North-west
by Denbigh Street, 100 links; towards the North-
east by Section No. 14, 33 links; towards the
North by portion of Section No. 14, 128 links;
towards the North-east by Section No. 15, 64 links;
towards the South-west by portions of said Sections
Nos. 14 and 13 to point of commencement, 128 links
and 139 links respectively.

All that other parcel of land containing by admea-
surement 10 perches, situate in Section No. 15,
Block XIII.; commencing at a point on south-west
side 113 links distant from western corner thereof.
Bounded towards the North by portion of Sec-
tion No. 15, 118 links; towards the North-east to
eastern corner of said Section No. 15 by Section
No. 16, 71 links; towards the South by portion of
said Section No. 15, 122 links; towards the South-
west by Section No. 14 to point of commencement,
64 links.

All that other parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 6 perches, situate in Section No. 16,
Block XIII.; commencing at the southern corner
of said section. Bounded towards the South-west
by Section No. 15, 71 links; towards the North by
portion of said Section No. 16, 115 links; towards
the South-east to point of commencement by public
reserve, 106 links.

All that other parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 2 roods 13 perches, being Sections
Nos. 20 and 21, Block XIII.; commencing at the
western corner of said Section No. 20. Bounded
towards the North-west by Denbigh Street, 187
and 459 links respectively; towards the North-
east by mill site, 28 links; towards the South-east
by public reserve, 470 and 190 links respectively;
towards the South-west by Section No. 19 to point of
commencement, 153 links.

All that other parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 1 acre and 28 perches, being a portion
of a reserve for public purposes; commencing at the
southern corner of Section No. 20, Block XIII.
Bounded towards the North-west by Sections Nos.
20 and 21, Block XIII., 190 links and 470 links
respectively; towards the North-east by mill site,
178 links; towards the South-east by Mataura River,
671 links; and towards the South-west by a public
reserve to point of commencement, 180 links.

All the aforesaid measurements being more or less,
and the several parcels of land being situate in the
Mataura Township, in the Provincial District of
Otago, Colony of New Zealand, and are more par-
ticularly delineated on the map marked P.W.D. 9336,
deposited in the office of the Minister for Public
Works, Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice,
the Administrator of the Government of
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
eighteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Land taken for a Portion of the Hurunui-Waitaki
Railway. Branch Line from the Racecourse to
Southbridge, with Sub-Branch to Little River
(Ellesmere Section).

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

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 Ellesmere portion of the
Little River and Akaroa Railway, being one of the