JUNE 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1219

six years, and to be payable in equal instalments on the 1st day
of December and June in each such year. The works to be
constructed out of aforesaid loan are—(1) Forming, metalling,
and culverts on Anderson's Line, about 40 chains, £150;
(2) forming, metalling, and culverts on Brooklyn Road, about
25 chains, £50; (3) forming, metalling, and culverts, about
30 chains on Cobden Road, £75; (4) forming, metalling, and
culverts, about 12 chains on Belvedere Road, £25; (5) extend-
ing the existing bridge over Maungatarere River in Belvedere
Road by one span, £100.

I certify that the foregoing special order has been duly
made by the Taratahi-Carterton Road Board at a special
meeting held the 1st day of May, 1897, and duly confirmed
by the same at a meeting held the 5th day of June, 1897.
H. H. Wolters,
Clerk to Board.

Special Order passed by the Taratahi-Carterton Road
Board, making Special Rate for Te Whiti Bridge Loan.

That, for the purpose of providing for the annual interest
and charges upon a loan of £1,200, to be raised conjointly
with the Masterton Road Board under "The Local Bodies'
Loans Act, 1886," and "The Government Loans to Local
Bodies Act, 1886," for the purpose of erecting a cart-traffic
bridge over the Ruamahanga River at Te Whiti, and con-
structing connecting-road therewith, this Board now do
make and levy a special rate of 4½d. in the pound upon rate-
able values of the under-mentioned properties, that is to
say, Sections numbered 14, 15, 17, and 18, Block XVI.,
Tiffen Survey District, situate near the confluence of the
Ruamahanga and Taueru Rivers, and now occupied by
Mr. J. A. Renall, Mrs. Dorset, Messrs. P. Gordon, A. Bott,
and R. Mabey respectively; the cost of raising the loan to
be defrayed out of the money borrowed, and the said special
rate to be annually-recurring for twenty-six years, and to be
payable in two equal half-yearly instalments on the 1st days
of December and June in each year.

I certify that the foregoing special order has been
duly made by the Taratahi-Carterton Road Board at a
special meeting held the 1st day of May, 1897, and duly
confirmed by the same at a meeting held the 5th day of
June, 1897.
H. H. Wolters,
Clerk to Board.
Carterton, 17th June, 1897.

Special Order made by the Manchester Road Board, County
of Oroua.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th June, 1897.
The following special order, made by the Manchester
Road Board, is published in accordance with the
provisions of "The Road Boards Act, 1882."
J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Special Order made by the Manchester Road Board.
That a new subdivision be formed in the Manchester Road
District, to be called No. 7 Subdivision, composed of
Ashurst Township and suburban sections, to be taken out
of No. 6 Subdivision, with the following boundaries—viz.,
commencing at the south-east corner-peg of Section 13,
Subdivision P, on the northern bank of the Manawatu
River, in a westerly direction to the western boundary-peg
of the said section; thence along the south-west boundary
of Sections 13, 6, 7, 8, and 10, Subdivision P, to the main
road; thence across the main road on the same line; thence
along the northern side of the main road to the south-
western corner to Section 32, Subdivision P; thence along
the south-west boundary of the same section to the Bunny-
thorpe-Ashurst Road; thence across the road on the same
line; thence along the south-west boundary of Sections 44,
43, 42, 41, 40, 39, and 38, Subdivision P, to the eastern side
of the Kairanga No. 1 Line; thence along the eastern side
of the Kairanga No. 1 Line to the Feilding-Ashurst Road;
thence along the southern side of the Feilding-Ashurst
Road to a point found by extending the division-line of
Sections 8, M 7, and 79, Ashurst Suburban; thence across
the road on the said line to the western corner of Sec-
tion 79; thence along the western boundary of Section 79
to the northern boundary of Section 79; thence along the
southern boundary of Section 9, Subdivision M 7, to the
western side of the Pohangina Road; thence across the
Pohangina Road on the same line; thence along the eastern
side of the Pohangina Road in a southerly direction to the
north side of Grammer's Road; thence by the north side
of Grammer's Road to the Pohangina River; thence in a
southerly direction by the Pohangina and Manawatu Rivers
to the starting-point: and that this special order shall come
into force on the 2nd day of July, 1897.

I hereby declare that the above special order was made by
the Manchester Road Board at a meeting held on the 6th
day of February, and confirmed on the 3rd day of April,
1897.
CHARLES BRAY,
Clerk, Manchester Road Board.

Cadet resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th June, 1897.
His Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to accept the resignation by
JAMES BLAIR
of his appointment as a cadet in the Native Land Court at
Wellington.
JOHN McKENZIE,
For Native Minister.

Despatch.—British Neutrality on Occasion of War between
Turkey and Greece.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th June, 1897.
His Excellency the Administrator of the Government
directs that the following despatch, received from
Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, be pub-
lished for general information, and His Excellency enjoins,
on Her Majesty's behalf, that the rules are to be obeyed by
all Her Majesty's subjects within the colony.
J. CARROLL,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 7th May, 1897.
Sir,—I have the honour to transmit to you copies of Her
Majesty's Proclamation of neutrality on the occasion of the
war between Turkey and Greece, together with copy of a
letter from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs em-
bodying rules which Her Majesty has directed to be observed
during the continuance of the present state of war, and I
have to request that you will cause both documents to be
immediately published throughout the colony under your
Government, and that you will not fail to conform to Her
Majesty's commands.
I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

[Extract from the London Gazette of Tuesday, 4th May,
1897.]

By the Queen.—A Proclamation.
Victoria, R.
Whereas We are happily at peace with all sovereigns,
Powers, and States:
And whereas, notwithstanding our utmost exertions to
preserve peace between the two Sovereign Powers, a state
of war unhappily exists between His Imperial Majesty the
Sultan of Turkey and His Majesty the King of the Hellenes,
and between their respective subjects and others inhabiting
within their countries, territories, or dominions:
And whereas We are on terms of friendship and amicable
intercourse with each of these sovereigns, and with their
several subjects and others inhabiting within their countries,
territories, or dominions:
And whereas great numbers of our loyal subjects reside
and carry on commerce, and possess property and establish-
ments, and enjoy various rights and privileges within the
dominions of each of the aforesaid sovereigns protected by
the faith of treaties between us and each of the aforesaid
sovereigns:
And whereas We, being desirous of preserving to our sub-
jects the blessings of peace, which they now happily enjoy,
are firmly purposed and determined to maintain a strict and
impartial neutrality in the said state of war unhappily exist-
ing between the aforesaid sovereigns:
We therefore have thought fit, by and with the advice of
our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation.
And We do hereby strictly charge and command all our
loving subjects to govern themselves accordingly, and to ob-
serve a strict neutrality in and during the aforesaid war, and
to abstain from violating or contravening either the laws and
statutes of the realm in this behalf, or the law of nations in
relation thereto, as they will answer to the contrary at their
peril.
And whereas in and by a certain statute made and passed
in a session of Parliament holden in the 33rd and 34th year
of our reign, intituled "An Act to regulate the Conduct of
Her Majesty's Subjects during the Existence of Hostilities
between Foreign States with which Her Majesty is at
Peace," it is, amongst other things, declared and enacted as
follows:—
"This Act shall extend to all the dominions of Her
Majesty, including the adjacent territorial waters,