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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

also a statutory declaration required by the said Act and
the amendments thereof:
Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and
pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested 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 hereby taken for the purpose of
widening the said street, and that, subject hereto, the said
land shall vest in the Corporation of the said borough on
and after the date of the publication hereof in the New
Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

Approximate Area
of the Parcel of
Land required to
be taken. Being
Portion of Situated
in Block
No. Situated
in the
Survey
District of Situated
in the
Borough
of

A. R. P.
0 0 4·26 Allotment No.
19 of Section
5, Hutt Dis-
trict XIII. Belmont Petone.

In the Provincial District of Wellington; as the said parcel
of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
S.G. 12876, deposited in the General Survey Office, Wel-
ington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and
thereon bordered green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of
Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley,
of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron
Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and
of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron
Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George; Governor and Com-
mander-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 second day of June, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and ninety.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for the Purpose of extending Charles Street, in
the Borough of Melrose, Provincial District of Wellington.

(L.s.) ONSLOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken, under "The Public Works
Act, 1882," and its amendments, for a certain work, to wit,
the extension of a street in the Borough of Melrose, known
as Charles Street:
And whereas the Melrose Borough Council has laid before
the Governor a memorial, accompanied by a map and also
the statutory declaration, as required by the said Act and
the amendments thereof:
Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and
pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested 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 hereby taken for the purpose of extending
the said Charles Street, and that, subject hereto, the said
land shall vest in the Corporation of the said borough on and
after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand
Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

Approximate
Area of the
Parcel of Land
required to
be taken. Being
Part of Situated in
the
Township of Situated
in the Borough
of

A. R. P.
0 1 16·8 Allotment No.
46 of original
Section No. 4,
Evans Bay Kilbirnie Melrose.

In the Provincial District of Wellington; as the said parcel
of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
S.G. 12699, deposited in the General Survey Office, at
Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and
thereon coloured red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of
Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley,
of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron
Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and
of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron
Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George; Governor and Com-
mander-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 third day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Native Land proposed to be taken for a Road in Maungaru
Survey District.

ONSLOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth
day of May, 1890.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken for a public work authorised
to be constructed by the Government, to wit, the construc-
tion of a road:
And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native
owners:
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
vested in him by "The Public Works Act, 1882," and the
amendments thereof, and of all other powers in anywise
enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency William Hillier,
Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said colony, doth hereby order that the Government
work known as a road shall and may be constructed on or
through the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

A ROAD, 100 links wide or thereabouts, commencing at the
north-eastern boundary-line of the Ohwatia Block No. 154 (in
red), Maungaru Survey District, Provincial District of Auck-
land, and proceeding in southerly and westerly directions
through the said block to the south-western boundary-line.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Inland Parcel Post Regulations amended.

ONSLOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this third day
of June, 1890.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
section eleven of "The Post Office Act 1881 Amendment,
1886" (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), and of all other
powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His
Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of
Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said colony, doth hereby revoke regulation number
twenty-three of the regulations issued under the said Act on
the twenty-third day of August, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette
of the twenty-second day of September of the same year,
and in lieu thereof doth hereby make and prescribe the
regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto; and it is hereby
declared that this Order in Council shall come into force on
the first day of June next.

SCHEDULE.

LIABILITY OF POSTMASTER-GENERAL LIMITED.

23. In the event of any damage, delay to, or loss of any parcel
    occurring during transit, the Postmaster-General shall in no