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be pledged for such money, as the General Assembly may consent should be raised for the use of the several Provinces, so as to enable them to obtain it at a lower cost.

For the purpose of giving effect to these views, the Government will be prepared to propose a Bill in the next General Assembly.

1. To guarantee, on behalf of the Colony, the Loans which have already been authorized by Act or Ordinance of the Provincial Legislatures, assented to by the General Government.

2. To prevent Provincial Legislatures from passing Loan Acts for the future, so that money to be raised on the credit of the Public Revenue and property shall only be borrowed under the sanction of an Act of the General Assembly.

This arrangement will give to the several Provinces the benefit of the Colonial credit for raising the greater part of the money already authorized by Acts heretofore passed. With regard to Otago, it appears from your statement that the total amount actually raised by Loan in that Province to the present, is only eighty thousand pounds (£80,000), leaving a large sum authorized to be raised on the credit of the Colony, if the General Assembly coincides in the views of the Government, and grants the proposed guarantee.

With regard to any further sums, which it may be found prudent and desirable to raise, in order to carry out great and important public works in the Province of Otago, that will be a question for the General Assembly.

With respect to your application for temporary assistance, I have the honor to add, that this Government will render you the assistance you ask, should you require it, the amount not to exceed forty thousand pounds (£40,000), to be repaid at the earliest date, and not exceeding six months.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

William Fox.

NOTICE.—TOKOMAIRIRO ROAD DEVIATIONS.

Whereas it is intended to stop up those Roads and Portions of Roads situate and being in the Tokomairiro District, and which are hereinafter described and are delineated on the map or plan heretofore mentioned and referred to in the “Tokomairiro Road Lands Ordinance, 1864,” copies of which map or plan are deposited at the Police Station, Public School, and Post Office in the said District: Now therefore I, John Hyde Harris, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf by the “Tokomairiro Road Lands Ordinance, 1864,” do hereby give notice that all persons objecting to the stopping up of such roads, or portions of roads, or any of them, are required to set forth a statement in writing of any well-grounded objection they may have to the stopping up of such roads, or portions of roads, and to leave such statement, addressed to me, at my office in Dunedin, or at the Police Station in the said District, within sixty days from the date hereof, otherwise such objections will not be considered by me.

Description of the Roads and Portions of Roads in the Tokomairiro District, which the Superintendent is empowered to stop up.

TUAPEKA ROAD.

84 chains, more or less, in length, 60 links wide, from Southern Trunk Road, at South Bridge, to District Road, between District Road which divides blocks XXIV and XXV; bounded on the north by sections 194, 195, 196, 197, block XXIV; on the south by Tokomairiro River.

38 chains in length, 60 links wide, from section 6, block XXXII, Tokomairiro, to District Road, between blocks XXXII and XLI; bounded on the north by Tokomairiro River; on the south by sections 7 and 8, block XXXII.

149 chains, more or less, in length, 60 links wide, from District Road which divides blocks XXIV and XXV, to Mount Stuart Road; bounded on the north by sections 198, 199, 200, 201, part of 202, block XXV; on the south by Tokomairiro River.

74 chains, more or less, in length, 60 links wide, from Mount Stuart Road to District Road, between blocks XXVI and XXVII; bounded on the north by sections 203, 204, and part of 202, block XXV; on the south by Tokomairiro River.

70 chains in length, 60 links wide, from District Road, between blocks XXVI and XXVII, to Southern Trunk Road, near Glenore Bridge; bounded on the north by sections 219, 220, 221, 222, block XXVII; on the south by Tokomairiro River.

MOUNT STUART ROAD.

9 chains in length, from 60 links wide downwards, from Mount Stuart Road, on section 3, block XLII, to Mount Stuart Road, on section 2, block XLII; bounded on the north by parts of sections 2 and 3, block XLII; on the south by section 1, block XLIII.

4 chains in length, from 60 links wide downwards, from Mount Stuart Road to Mount Stuart Road; bounded on the north by Mount Stuart Road; on the south by section 1, block XLIII.

13 chains in length, 60 links wide, from Mount Stuart Road, on section 1, block XLII, to Mount Stuart Road, on section 6, block XLVI; bounded on the north by parts of section 1, block XLII, and 6, block XLVI; on the south by section 12, block XLVI, and section 1, block XLIII.

1 chain 60 links in length, 60 links wide, from Mount Stuart Road to section 1, block XLII; bounded on the west by part of section 12, block XLVI; on the east by section 1, block XLIII.

24 chains in length, 60 links wide, from Mount Stuart Road to Mount Stuart Road; bounded on the north by section 5, and parts of sections 4 and 6, block XLVII; on the south by parts of sections 1 and 12, block XLVI.

30 chains 60 links in length, 60 links wide, from Mount Stuart Road to District Road, between blocks XLVIII and XLII; bounded on the east by sections 1 and 2, block XLVI; on the west by sections 11 and 12, block LII.

20 chains 50 links in length, 60 links wide, from Mount Stuart Road to new District Road, leading from the Mount Stuart Road to Roxburgh; bounded on the north by part of section 6, block LII; on the south by parts of sections 3 and 4, block LIII.

9 chains in length, 60 links wide, from District Road, at Roxburgh, to new District Road, leading from Mount Stuart Road to Roxburgh; bounded on the north by part of section 1, block L; on the south by part of section 12, block LIII, and part of section 1, block LIV.

COAL ROAD.

105 chains in length, 60 links wide, from new Coal Road, on section 2, block XXIX, to District Road, at the boundary line between sections 2 and 3, block XXX; bounded on the north by sections 1 and 2, block XXX, and sections 2, 3, 4, and 5, block XXIX; on the south by section 9, block XXXI, and sections 8, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, block XXVIII.

35 chains in length, 60 links wide, from new Coal Road, near the bridge, to old District Road, at section 8, block XXVIII; bounded on the west by section 1, block XXX; on the east by section 5, block XXIX.

15 chains, more or less, in length, 60 links wide, from Coal Road, at new bridge, to boundary line between sections 1 and 2, block XXIX; bounded on the north by Tokomairiro River, on the south by sections 9, 3, 4, and 5, block XXIX.

TABLE HILL ROAD.

35 chains in length, 60 links wide, from District Road, between blocks 3 and 4, Tokomairiro, to District Road, which divides block IV, Tokomairiro, from block I, Table Hill District; bounded on the south by Tokomairiro River.