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of Westland, describing the course and bearings and the admeasurements required for the same, and through what lands the same is proposed to pass, and the names of the owners or occupiers thereof, so far as known, and which plan is authenticated for the purposes of this Proclamation by the signature of the Honourable Edward Richardson, the Minister for Public Works.

SCHEDULE.

Description of Road Alteration, Greymouth to Ross.

The alteration commences at Mawhera Quay, Greymouth, and proceeds thence through Greymouth in a course nearly due South, thence in a general S.S.E. course to Marsden.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, 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 twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 51, of the 21st August, 1873.]

Notice of the Intention of the Governor to make certain alterations, Greymouth to Marsden vid Sawyers’ Creek, on the Greymouth to Ross Road, in the County of Westland.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Governor of New Zealand, having, under the powers in him vested by The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870, and the Acts amending the same, deemed it expedient to open and make alterations in the line of road from Greymouth to Ross, which road alterations are, in the opinion of the Governor and the Executive Council of the Colony, not road alterations to be constructed by the Chairman and County Council of the County of Westland, and the course and bearings of which said road alterations, the admeasurements required for the same, and the lands through which the same pass, together with the names of the owners and occupiers thereof, so far as known, are respectively shown and delineated on a certain plan marked B, and which said road alterations are also described in a certain Proclamation made under the said Acts, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the same number and date as that in which this notice appears:

A copy of the said plan, marked B, is deposited and may be seen and inspected at the office of the Public Works Department at Greymouth.

And notice is hereby further given, that all or any persons affected by the making of the said road alterations from Greymouth to Ross, are required to set forth in writing, addressed to the Governor, and left at the office of the said Public Works Department at Greymouth, within forty days from the first publication hereof any well-grounded objection he or they may have to the said alterations on that line of road.

Dated this twentieth day of August, 1873.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 51, of the 21st August, 1873.]

Defining the South Creek Road, Westland.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor, from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, may, as to parts within the North Island of New Zealand, define the roads and the boundaries thereof and the bridges and ferries which shall be and be deemed to be roads, bridges, or ferries, as the case may be, under the provisions of the said Act, and any such Proclamation may include existing roads, but no such roads or parts of roads shall be included if they are, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, roads which should be constructed by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council of the Province wherein such roads are situated, as well as new road lines; and the Governor from time to time may revoke or alter any such Proclamation:

And whereas, by The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1872, it is, amongst other things, enacted that all the provisions contained in Part I. and Part VI. of The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.