exclusive control of the Kiwitea Road Board; and I do
hereby further direct that a proportion of two-thirds of the
actual cost of constructing and maintaining the said road
shall be borne by the Kiwitea Road Board, and that a pro-
portion of one-third of the actual cost of constructing and
maintaining the said road shall be borne by the Manchester
Road Board: Provided, however, that in each of the above-
mentioned cases “the actual cost” shall mean the total cost
of constructing and maintaining the road, less any contri-
bution, gift, or fine given or paid by any person or company
towards the construction or maintenance of the road, or for
damaging the road by excessive weights or otherwise.

SCHEDULE.

THAT road in the County of Oroua known as the Cheltenham
Cross Road, running in a north-westerly direction from the
south-western corner of Section 10, Block XII., Oroua Sur-
District, to Wilson’s Road.

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 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 Wellington, this twenty-second
day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety.

G. F. RICHARDSON,

Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Vesting Control of the Onepuhi Bridge in Rangitikei
County Council.

(L.S.)

ONSLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Public Works Acts
Amendment Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the
said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may,
upon the terms and conditions in the said section mentioned,
by Proclamation publicly notified, direct that any bridge
already constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed,
over or across any river or arm of the sea respectively, shall,
from and after a date to be fixed in such Proclamation, be
under the exclusive care, control, and management of such
local authority as shall be mentioned in that behalf in such
Proclamation:

And whereas it is expedient that the control and manage-
ment of the bridge described in the Schedule hereto should
be vested in the manner hereinafter described:

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
said Act, and of every other power and authority in anyway
enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge
mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and known as the One-
puhi Bridge, shall, from and after the first day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety, be under the exclu-
sive care, control, and management of the Rangitikei County
Council; and I do hereby fix and determine that the Rangi-
tikei County Council shall itself provide out of its own funds
a proportion of three-sixths of the actual cost of managing
and maintaining the said bridge; and that the Manchester
Road Board shall, on demand in writing from the Rangitikei
County Council, pay to the said Council from time to time a
proportion of two-sixths of the actual cost of managing and
maintaining the said bridge; and that the Kiwitea Road
Board shall, on demand in writing from the Rangitikei
County Council, pay to the said Council from time to time a
proportion of one-sixth of the actual cost of managing and
maintaining the said bridge.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Rangitikei River known as the One-
puhi Bridge, situated about four miles north of the Town-
ship of Halcombe.

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 Wellington, this twenty-
second day of January, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

G. F. RICHARDSON,

Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Amended Description of Otago Mining District.

(L.S.)

ONSLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by “The Mining Act, 1886” (hereinafter
termed “the said Act”), I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby re-
voke, so far as it relates to the Otago Mining District, the
Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 66,
of the twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-six, also Proclamations published in
Gazette No. 18, of the twenty-second day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and in Gazette
No. 34, of the fourteenth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-eight, relating to the same district, and
in lieu thereof do hereby proclaim and declare that the por-
tion of the colony particularly described in the Schedule
hereto shall be the Mining District of Otago under the said
Act, with the boundaries in the said Schedule mentioned;
and I do hereby further proclaim and declare that this
Proclamation shall take effect as from the first day of March
next.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO MINING DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Otago bounded
towards the north by the Provincial District of Canterbury,
from Big Bay, on the West Coast, to a point due north of
Mount St. Bathan’s; towards the East by a straight line
to that mountain; thence again towards the north by a
straight line due east to the summit of the Hawkdun Moun-
tains; towards the north-east by the summit of the said
Hawkdun Mountains to Mount Ida; thence towards the
north-west by a straight line to Kurow Mountain; thence
by a straight line to the source of the Little Awakino
Stream, and by that stream to the Waitaki River; again
towards the north-east by the Waitaki River to the western
boundary of the Awamoko Hundred; thence again towards
the east by the said Awamoko Hundred to the Kakanui
Hundred; towards the south and again towards the east by
the said Kakanui Hundred to its south-western corner;
again towards the south by a straight line due west to a
point due north of Scout Hill; thence again towards the
east by a straight line through Scout Hill to a point due
west of Trig. Station D (Mount Difficulty), Kauroo Survey
District; thence again towards the north by a straight line
through the said Trig. Station D to a point due north of the
north-eastern corner of Section No. 2, Block VI., Kauroo
Survey District aforesaid; again towards the east by a
straight line to the said corner; again towards the south and
east by Section No. 2 aforesaid to Section No. 7 of the said
Block VI.; thence again towards the south and west and
again towards the south and east by the said Section No. 7
to Section No. 5, Block XV., Otepopo Survey District;
thence again towards the east, north-east, north-west,
and south-west by the said Section No. 5 to Section No. 7
aforesaid; thence again towards the north by Section No. 7
aforesaid to Section No. 9, Block XV., Otepopo Survey Dis-
trict; thence again towards the east and north by the said
Section No. 9 to Section No. 2 of the said Block XV.; thence
again towards the east and north by the said Section No. 2
to its south-eastern corner; thence again towards the east
by Sections Nos. 1, 8, 7, 6, and 3 of Block XV. aforesaid to
Section No. 4; again towards the south and east by the
said Section No. 4 to a point due east of Trig. Station P,
Otepopo Survey District; thence again towards the south
by a straight line through the said Trig. Station P to the
summit of the Kakanui Mountains; thence again towards
the north-east by the summit of the Kakanui Mountains to
Run No. 109; thence again towards the north-west by Run
No. 217B to Run No. 209; thence again towards the north
and north-east by the said Run No. 209 to its southernmost
corner; thence again towards the east generally by Runs
Nos. 464 and 11 to a stream forming the south-eastern
boundary of Run No. 109 aforesaid; thence towards the
south-east by that stream to the south branch of the Wai-
anakarua River; thence again towards the south-west by the
south branch of the Waianakarua River aforesaid to a point
in line with the north-west boundary-line of the Moeraki
Hundred; thence again towards the south-east by a straight