NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON).

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XXI. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1874. No. 34

Proclamation.

By His Honor William Fitzherbert Esquire, C.M.G., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington,
in pursuance of the powers vested in me by Clause III. of the Additional Land Regulations of the 15th day of February, 1855, do hereby proclaim and notify that the block of land situate in the Wairarapa District, and comprised within the following boundaries viz: bounded towards the North-east and East by the Tauherenikau River; towards the South by the Southern boundaries of sections Nos. 380, 383, 452, 453, 507, 508 and 509, Township of Featherston by the Northern shore of the Wairarapa Lake, by the Pigeon Bush Creek and by the Southern boundaries of section Nos. 350, 351, 462, 463, and 510; towards the West by the Western boundaries of sections Nos. 388, 485, 486, 508, 509, and 513, Township of Featherston, and by sections Nos. 21 and 25, Pakuratahi District; and towards the North-west by a line bearing 22° magnetic, from the Eastern course of section No. 24, Pakuratahi District, where the North-east boundary of the said section impinges on the Rimutaka Hill road to the Tauherenikau River, and which said boundaries are particularly delineated in the plan in the margin hereof, shall from and after this date be reserved as the site of a Township to be called “Featherston.”

Given under my hand and issued under the public seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Countersigned,
Superintendent.
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Sheep Inspector’s Notice.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th December, 1874.

NOTICE has been received at this Office from the Inspector of Sheep for the Wairarapa and East Coast District, that he has cancelled the clean certificates of the following Flocks:—

• Duncan McLachlan, “Spring Bank” ... Cancelled 12th Nov., 1874.
• H. R. Bunny, “Ahiarhui” ... Cancelled 13th Nov., 1874.
• Walter Blachford, “Ahiarhui” ... Cancelled 21st Nov., 1874.
• Buck & Kemble, “Ahiarhui” Ewe Flock ... Cancelled 21st Nov., 1874.

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 17th November, 1874.

THE following lists of successful and unsuccessful Tenderers are published for general information.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

SLEEPERS FOR WELLINGTON-MASTERTON RAILWAY.

Accepted.

• Wm. Strachan, Wellington ... 12,000 at 2 6
• E. Morgan and J. Robinson, Upper Hutt ... 27,000 at 2 9½

Declined.

• Win. Sykes, Upper Hutt ... 27,000 at 2 11½
• Smith and Bevan, Woodside ... 5,000 at 3 3
• Jas. Cruickshanks, Upper Hutt ... 27,000 at 3 6
• Wm. Booth, Taratahi ... 20,000 at 3 10½
• Smith and Bevan, Woodside ... 5,000 at 4 0

Informal.

• D. Haggerty, Carterton ...

WANGANUI-MANAWATU RAILWAY.

OROUA BRIDGE CONTRACT.

Accepted.

• James Bull, Bulls ... £4,344 5 0

Declined.

• Robert S. Low, Wanganui ... £4,580 10 0
• Henry McNeil, Palmerston N ... £4,830 14 9
• Samuel Brown, Wellington ... £4,598 0 0
• Calman and Richardson, Wanganui ... £5,237 14 2