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—be all the aforesaid areas more or less; as the same are more particularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 10113, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE B. Scale of Faces and Chaeges.—Vide New Zealand Gazette No. 96, of 13th November, 1882, pp. 1669-1706.

SCHEDULE C. 1. All agricultural and pastoral lands, and not less than one-fourth the area set apart for town, village, and suburban lands, to be offered for sale not later than twelve months after the railway-line has been opened for traffic to the locality of such lands. 2. The price of agricultural and pastoral lands shall not be less per acre than the valuation already made in terms of section 102 of "The Railways Construction and Land Act, 1881." The price of town and village lands shall not be less than twenty pounds (£2O) per acre, and of suburban lands not less than three pounds (£3) per acre. 3. All lands to be surveyed, mapped, and lithograph plans of sections published before being advertised for sale. 4. No sale of land shall be held until after thirty days' public notice of the time and place thereof shall be given in at least one Invercargill and one Dunedin newspaper. 5. Sales of land may either be by auction or by applications receivable on a given day. In the event of more than one application for the same section of land on the same day, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., the land applied for shall be put up to auction, and the bidding at such auction shall be limited to the applicants. 6. Agricultural land to be surveyed in sections not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres each, with a practicable line of road marked off on the ground to each section. Bush to be felled on road-lines one chain wide, and cleared sixteen feet in the centre, before the land is offered for sale. 7. Pastoral land—that is, the higher slopes of the hills—to be surveyed generally, so far as the natural features will permit, in sections at least twice the depth to the breadth, the depth running back with the slope of the hills. 8. A site for a town to be set apart at Orawia Bridge. 9. The Governor to have the right of selecting, free of cost, in each town and village, whether on land acquired by the Company as public grant, or by purchase from the Natives, an area not exceeding three acres for post and telegraph offices, Courthouse, police station, and other public buildings; also an area not exceeding five acres for a school site. At cross-roads, or other suitable places in rural districts, Governor to have the right of selecting, free of cost, five acres for a school site, at distances four or five miles apart. 10. The surveys of lands to be conducted on the New Zealand system of surveys, so that the plans, traverse reductions, and field-books may be conformable with the public survey records of the colony, from which the descriptions of title are taken. 11. All record surveys and classification of agricultural and pastoral land to be subject to the approval of the Surveyor-General or officer nominated by him. EoBEBT P. CUTHBEETSON, t TO _ fi -i- r( , W. McPheeson, juirecors. Witness—James Harvey, of Invercargill, Gentleman, Solicitor of the said Company. Wm. F. Dbummond Jeevois, Foesteb Goeing, Governor. Clerk of the Executive Council. 20th August, 1883.

Authority: Gkobge Didsbuey, Government Printer, Wellington.—lSB3.