SCHEDULE.

KAWARAU DISTRICT.

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 ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE,

Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclaiming the Taking and Laying-off of Roads over Lands in the Wellington Provincial District.

(L.s.) Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,

Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of all powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim that the roads described in the Schedule hereto have been duly taken and laid off through the lands specified in a warrant of the date given in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

BLOCK VIII., WAITOHU SURVEY DISTRICT.

All that road marked E, D, C, B, F, G, A, the centre of which commences at the point marked E on the boundary-line between Ngakaroro Nos. 3A and 3D Blocks, and proceeds generally in a northerly direction through the Ngakaroro Nos. 3A, 3D, 3H, and 3G Blocks, the Pahiko Ngakaroro No. 6 Block, and the Kururohatu Nos. D, C, B, and A Blocks, to a point marked A on the northern boundary of the last-mentioned block; the width of the said road from E to B being 100 links, B to F 63 links, F to G 44 links, and G to A 26 links; as the same is more particularly shown on the plan marked S.O. 1826-20, and deposited in the District Survey Office, Wellington.

Date of warrant, 20th October, 1884.

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 ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Notice under "The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1883."

(L.S.) Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,

Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is vested in certain aboriginal natives of New Zealand, subject to certain restrictions on the alienation of such land, and application has been made for the removal of such restrictions:

It is hereby notified that it is the intention of His Excellency the Governor, immediately after the expiration of sixty days from the publication of this notice in the Gazette and in the Kahiti, to remove the said restrictions on the alienation of the said land.

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 eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE,

Minister for Native Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.

PORTIONS of Waotu North No. 2B Block, Waikato, containing together about 28 acres, proposed to be acquired by the Crown for educational and telegraph purposes, as delineated on the plan of the said block, deposited in the Survey Office, Auckland.

Order to take Land for the North Island Main Trunk Railway. Length about 210 miles.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,

Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of April, 1885.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in me by "The Public Works Act, 1882," and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, order that a railway, having an average width of three hundred links, extending from a point on the right bank of the Puniu River, in the Provincial District of Auckland, to a point at the intersection of the railway-line from Foxton to New Plymouth Railway, situated in Section seven, Block three, Rangitoto Survey District, Provincial District of Wellington, shall be constructed on or through all lands held or occupied by Native owners; the total length being two hundred and ten miles or thereabouts: as delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 12069, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

FORSTER GORING,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land in Borough of Blenheim (being Portion of Abandoned line, Picton-Hurunui Railway), not required for Public Use, authorized to be sold.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,

Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day of May, 1885.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of "The Public Works Act, 1882," it is enacted that, if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under