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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 80

1. Taken on the 16th December, 1887.—On proposal to borrow the sum of £100, for the purpose of forming a branch road to join the Opaki to Rangitumau Road :—
   Number of votes exercisable, 2. Number of votes in favour of proposal, 2; number of votes against proposal, nil.

2. Taken on the 15th December, 1887.—On proposal to borrow the sum of £360, for the purpose of metalling a road at Upper Fernridge :—
   Number of votes exercisable, 10. Number of votes in favour of proposal, 6; number of votes against proposal, nil; number of votes not recorded, 4.

As a majority of the number of ratepayers, having a majority of the total number of votes exercisable, voted for each proposal, I hereby declare both proposals to be duly carried.
I have, &c.,
WILLIAM H. BEETHAM,
Chairman, Masterton Road Board.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Taratahi-Carterton Road District, County of Wairarapa South.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 24th December, 1887.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Taratahi-Carterton Road Board, is published in accordance with "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886."
T. W. HISLOP.

TARATAHI-CARTERTON ROAD BOARD—NO. 1 SUBDIVISION.
Notice is hereby given that the following is the result of the poll of ratepayers of No. 1 Subdivision, of the Taratahi-Carterton Road District, taken at the Waingawa School-house this present day, upon the proposal to raise a loan of £1,700 under "The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," for roadworks in said subdivision, and to levy a special rate of nine-twenty-fifths of a penny in the pound upon the value of the rateable properties in the said subdivision, as security for the payment of the interest at 5 per cent. per annum upon the said loan of £1,700, viz.,—
For the proposal, 16 ratepayers, with 35 votes; against the proposal, no ratepayers, with no votes; votes not exercised, 11 ratepayers, with 24 votes.
As a majority of the ratepayers having a majority of the total votes exercisable did vote for the proposal, I hereby declare the said proposal carried.
JOHN RAYNER,
Returning Officer.

Dated at Waingawa Schoolhouse, this 17th day of December, 1887.

H. R. BUNNY,
Chairman, Taratahi-Carterton Road Board.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Town District of Southbridge, County of Selwyn.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th December, 1887.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Southbridge Town Board, is published in accordance with "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886."
GEO. FISHER,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Town Board Office,
Southbridge, 3rd December, 1887.

SIR,—At the poll held on Wednesday, the 30th November, the following votes were recorded on the proposal that the Town Board do raise a loan of £400 for the purpose of establishing the following public works, to wit, the purchase of a town hall and library, situate on Sections 3 and 4, fronting High Street, in the said town district, and of the said sections; and that the said loan be charged on a special rate of ½d. in the pound sterling on the value of the rateable property within the said town district:—
For the proposal, 66; against the proposal, 10. Number of names on the roll, 131.
I, therefore, declare the proposal agreed to by one-half of the ratepayers.
I am, &c.,
R. C. BURNS,
Chairman of the Southbridge Town Board.

The Colonial Secretary, Wellington.

Robert Crosby Burns, Chairman of the Southbridge Town Board, do solemnly and sincerely declare that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all the proceedings required have been properly taken in the matter of the Southbridge Town Board raising a loan of £400 for the purpose of establishing the following public work, to wit, the purchase of a town hall and library, situate on Sections 3 and 4, fronting High Street, in the said town district, and of the said sections,

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882."
R. C. BURNS,
Chairman of the Southbridge Town Board.

Declared at Southbridge, this 3rd day of December, 1887, before me—J. R. Campbell, J.P.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, County of Wallace.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th December, 1887.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Wallace County Council, is published in accordance with "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886."
GEO. FISHER,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

WALLACE COUNTY COUNCIL.—PROPOSAL TO BORROW £1,500 FOR BRIDGES OVER JACOB'S RIVER AND DUCK CREEK.
I, William Johnston, Chairman of the Wallace County Council, do hereby notify that the result of the poll of ratepayers of part of Otautau Riding of Wallace County, taken on the 27th day of July, 1887, on the proposal to borrow £1,500 under "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886," for the construction of bridges over Jacob's River and Duck Creek, is as follows:—
Number of ratepayers on the roll, 244; number of votes exercisable, 316. There voted in favour of proposal, 116 ratepayers, representing 150 votes; there voted against the proposal, 12 ratepayers, representing 23 votes.
As the number of votes in favour of the proposal is less than one-half the votes that can be exercised, and as less than half the ratepayers voted for the proposal, I do hereby declare the proposal to be rejected.
WILLIAM JOHNSTON,
Chairman, Wallace County.

Wallace County Office, Riverton,
19th December, 1887.

Summoning Federal Council for 16th January, 1888.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th December, 1887.

THE following letter, received from His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, is published for general information.
GEO. FISHER,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Government House,
Hobart, 6th December, 1887.

SIR,—I have the honour to inform you that I have this day issued the accompanying Proclamation, summoning the Federal Council of Australasia to meet in Hobart the 16th day of January next.
I have, &c.,
R. G. C. HAMILTON.

His Excellency Sir W. Jervois, G.C.M.G., &c.,
New Zealand.

"The Federal Council of Australasia Act, 1885."
By His Excellency Sir Robert George Crookshank Hamilton, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of Tasmania and its Dependencies.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the Act of the Imperial Parliament of the 48th and 49th Vict., c. 60, intituled "An Act to constitute a Federal Council of Australasia," it is enacted that the first session of the Federal Council shall be held in Hobart, in the Colony of Tasmania, and that subsequent sessions shall be held in such colony as the Council shall from time to time determine; and, further, that the Council shall be summoned and prorogued by the Governor of the colony in which the session shall be held, and shall be so summoned and prorogued by Proclamation published in the Government Gazette of each of the colonies in the said Act referred to in respect to which the said Act is in operation, and shall meet at such time and at such place as shall be named in the Proclamation: And whereas the first session of the said Council was duly held at Hobart aforesaid during the months of January and February, in the forty-ninth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six; and it was, on the fifth day of the said month of February, determined by the said Council that the next session thereof shall be held in Hobart, in the Colony of Tasmania: Now, therefore, I, Sir Robert George Crookshank Hamilton, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief as aforesaid, in pursuance of the said