Num. 19. 235

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1884.

Defining the Middle Line of Further Portion of the Hurunui–Waitaki Railway (Horseley Downs Contract—Deviation of Portion).

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Hurunui–Waitaki Railway is one of the railways specified in the First Schedule to “The Public Works Act, 1879,” and which Act is, in the seventh section thereof, declared to be a special Act authorizing the construction of such railway; and such railway is unfinished, and it has been determined to construct and maintain a further portion of the same:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and in pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the aforesaid section seven of “The Public Works Act, 1879,” and by sections one hundred and twenty-nine and one hundred and thirty of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and in exercise of every other power and authority in anywise 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 as defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in Crown land, the said point being situate on the middle line of railway, as described in a Proclamation dated the 17th May, 1882, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 46, of the 18th May, about 35 chains distant from the northern boundary of road forming the northern boundary of Rural Section 31314; proceeding thence in a northerly direction for a distance of 65 chains or thereabouts, and terminating at a point in Crown land; including all adjoining and intervening places, roads, reserves, streams, rivers, and watercourses; all within the Waipara Road District, Provincial District of Canterbury; in the manner delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 10981, signed by the Hon. Edwin Mitchelson, Minister for Public Works, and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Christchurch, in the said provincial district; the total length being 65 chains or thereabouts.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty’s Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 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 twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for a Further Portion of the Hurunui–Waitaki Railway (Horseley Downs Contract—Further Portion of).

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a further portion of the Hurunui–Waitaki Railway, viz., Horseley Downs Contract (deviation of portion): And whereas all conditions precedent required by law to be observed and performed prior to the taking of such land in the manner hereby provided have been observed and performed:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by section one hundred and thirty of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is taken for the said further portion of the said line of railway.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL those pieces or parcels of land containing by admeasurement 6 acres 1 rood 12 perches, more or less, situate in the Survey Districts of Waipara and Waitohi, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, being portion of Crown land, commencing at a point bearing from Trig. V 20° 23′ north-west, and 3845 links distant therefrom. Bounded as follows: Easterly by a right line 48 links, by a

ERRATUM.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 12, of the 31st January, 1884, folio 164, the sections in Block XVI., Blackstone, reserved for forest purposes, should be numbers 6 and 19, not 9 and 16.