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such line from time to time, and the commencing and termination points of any such portion or portions, and the limits and description of any such portion or portions, and the lands proposed to be taken for the purpose of any such portion or portions, and to construct any portion or portions so fixed, and to take the lands for the same; and any such portion so proclaimed shall be deemed to be a railway within the meaning of the said Act and the said amending Act, and this Act.

And whereas by the said last-mentioned Act it is also enacted that, at any time after the expiration of twenty-one days from the publication in the “New Zealand Gazette,” and in a newspaper ordinarily circulating in the district, of a Proclamation under the thirteenth section of the said Act, whether of the whole or a portion or portions of a line of railway, the Governor, on behalf of Her Majesty, may enter upon, take possession of, use and hold, or cause to be entered upon, taken possession of, used and held, so much of the lands defined in such Proclamation as proposed to be taken as shall be required to be taken, purchased, or permanently used for the purposes of such railway, notwithstanding that an agreement shall not have been come to or an award made for the purchase or compensation money to be paid in respect of such lands:

And whereas by the said last-mentioned Act it is also enacted that in any case in which a road or right of road has been or hereafter may be reserved in any Crown grant, and in any case in which, under “The Native Lands Act, 1865,” or any law for the time being in force relating to the sale of waste lands of the Crown, or any law whatever, there is a right to take a public road through any lands, it shall be lawful, after such road shall have been surveyed, to construct under the said Acts any railway or any part of any railway, on the road so surveyed, notwithstanding that such road may not have been made:

And whereas the Governor has determined to construct and maintain a railway from a point on the south bank of the Grey River, opposite the Brunner Coal Mine, to Greymouth, being a portion of the railway authorised to be constructed from Brunner to Greymouth by “The Railways Act, 1871.”

And whereas Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, hath departed thence for the Colony of New South Wales, and Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Chief Justice of the said Colony, under or by virtue of a certain warrant under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, is now the person lawfully administering the Government of the said Colony:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the herein-before in part recited Acts, and in exercise of every other power enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim, declare, and define the limits, description, and line of the said railway from a point on the south bank of the Grey River, opposite to the Brunner Coal Mine, to Greymouth, to be those set forth in the First Schedule hereto; and that the lands specified and described in the Second Schedule hereto are proposed to be taken for the purposes of the said railway; and that the limits of deviation shall be those set forth in the said First Schedule hereto; and in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities conferred on me in that behalf, I do hereby fix the point of commencement of the said railway, being a portion of the said railway from Brunner to Greymouth, to be at a point on the south bank of the Grey River, opposite the Brunner Coal Mine, and the point of termination to be a point on Mawhera Quay in a line with Werita-street, Greymouth.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation of a portion of the Railway from Brunner to Greymouth, being that portion lying between a point on the South Bank of the Grey River, opposite the Brunner Coal Mine, to Greymouth, in the County of Westland.

Commencing at a point on Mawhera Quay, Greymouth; thence through Native Reserve No. 31 (in red) and Rural Block I., Grey District; thence through Native Reserve No. 33; thence through Coal Reserve No. 274 (in red) as the limits, description, and line thereof are set forth on the plan and described in the book of reference referred to on the face of the said plan, and which plan and book are authenticated for the purposes of this Proclamation by the signature of the Honorable William Hunter Reynolds, Minister acting for the Minister for Public Works, to be deposited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Hokitika, or within the limits of deviation set forth in the said plan by dotted red lines, being not more than one hundred and ten yards on either side of the line, and passing through or over the several sections of Crown and other lands, sections, reserves, roads, watercourses, rivers, and beaches, as enumerated in the Second Schedule hereto.

SECOND SCHEDULE,

OR BOOK OF REFERENCE.

Lands and Roads proposed to be taken for the purposes of the Railway from a point on the South Bank of the Grey River, opposite the Brunner Coal Mine, to Greymouth.

So much of the lands and roads hereinafter mentioned as are required for the said railway along the line of the said railway hereinbefore defined, or within the limits of deviation aforesaid, as the lands are described and defined in the plan or book of reference aforesaid.

Mawhera Quay, Town Sections 1, 2, 86, 87, 88, 89, Mackay-street, Mount-street, Lots IX, X., 8, 324, 323, 326, 322, 227, 228, Native Reserve No. 31, Public Roads, Reserve No. 4, Grey District Block I., Rural Sections 7798, 1233, 1237, 1105, 1111, 1316, 7804, 1363, 1323, 1318, 1115, 1140, 1306, 1099, 1161, 1098.