Sept. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1193

powers and authorities conferred on me by section one
hundred and thirty of "The Public Works Act, 1882," and
of every other power and authority in anyway enabling me
in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the
land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is taken for the
further portion of the said line of railway hereinbefore speci-
fied.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Wellington; as the same are
more particularly delineated on the plans marked P.W.D.
14678 and 14122, deposited in the office of the Minister for
Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of
Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow, brown, red, and
purple.

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 Wel-
ington, this twelfth day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-seven.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Additional Land taken at Turakina for the Purposes of
the Foxton-New Plymouth Railway.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable, for the use,
convenience, and enjoyment of the Foxton-New
Plymouth Railway, to take further land at Turakina, in
addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the
said railway:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of
the powers and authorities conferred on me by "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 mentioned in the Schedule hereto is
taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Wellington; as the said parcel
of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
P.W.D. 14712, deposited in the office of the Minister for
Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of
Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

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 Wel-
ington, this twelfth day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-seven.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Defining the Middle Line of Further Portion of the Line
of Railway from the Main Line of the Waitaki-Bluff
Railway to Oteramika and Toitois (Seaward Bush
Branch).

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the line of railway from the main line of
the Waitaki-Bluff Railway to Oteramika and Toitois
is one of the railways specified in the Schedule to "The
Railways Authorization Act, 1881," and which Act is, in the
fifth section thereof, declared to be a special Act authorizing
the construction of such railway; and such railway is un-
finished, and it has been determined to construct and main-
tain a further portion of the same:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and
pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on me
by the aforesaid section five of "The Railways Authorization
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.

SCHEDULE.

Commencing at a point on the road forming the eastern
boundary of Block XXIV., Invercargill Hundred, the said
point being the termination of a portion of the railway as
described in a Proclamation dated the 23rd March, 1885, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 18, of the 26th
March, 1885; proceeding thence in a generally eastern direc-
tion for a distance of 1 mile 16 chains or thereabouts, and