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Fiest Schedule. Statement of the situation, sectional number, and approximate area of each of the parcels of land taken for the railway : — Waimate Survey District. —No. 6298, 3 roods 35 perches; No. 10724, 3 roods 16 perches; No. 6302, 37 perches; No. 10807, 36 perches; No. 33550, 1 acre 1 rood 33 perches; No. 10406, 2 roods 35 perches; No. 22678, 2 roods 32 perches. Waitaki Survey District. —No. 19555, 2 acres 1 rood 37 perches; No. 19343, 3 acres 3 roods 28 perches. No. 17866, 25 perches; No. 15888, 2 acres 3 roods 16 perches; No. 12378, 35 perches; No. 11585, 1 acre and 37 perches; No. 12378, 2 roods 4 perches; No. 15888, 3 roods 14 perches ; No. 15887, 7 acres 1 rood 27 perches; No. 17868, 2 acres 1 rood 27 perches; No. 17849, 1 rood 17 perches; No. 17867, 39 perches; No. 22167, 9 acres 1 rood 24 perches; No. 22624, 1 rood 24 perches; No. 22624, 5 acres 1 rood 28 perches; No. 20175, 2 roods 33 perches; No. 20185, 2 roods 29 perches. Waitaki and Elephant Hill Survey District. —No. 18960, 5 acres and 7 perches. Elephant Hill Survey District. —No. 20508, 1 acre 2 roods 18 perches. All in the Provincial District of Canterbury; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan (or plans) marked " P.W.D. 13,021," deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

Second Schedule. Buildings, yards, platforms, &c. Permanent way, including sidings, 9 miles 10 chains 30 links. 'Waihao Forks. —l goods-shed, 60ft. by 30ft.; 1 station, 13 feet by 35 feet; 1 cattle-yard; 1 water-supply, complete; passenger platform, 100 feet; loading platform, 60 feet. Waihao Doivns. — 1 goods-shed, 40ft. by 30ft.; 1 office-and-lobby station; 1 water-supply, complete ; passenger platform, 60 feet; loading platform, 60 feet. Arno. —l office-and-lobby station ; passenger platform, 35 feet; loading platform, 30 feet. McLean's. —l office-and-lobby station ; passenger platform, 31 feet; loading platform, 50 feet.

Third Schedule. Statement of the lands acquired by the company in the Provincial District of Canterbury, showing from whom acquired, sectional numbers, and area : — Michael Studholme. —No. 6298, 38 perches; No. 6298, 2 roods 37 perches; closed roadway, 9 perches; No. 6302, 37 perches; No. 33550, 1 acre 1 rood 33 porches; No. 22678, 2 roods 32 perches; No. 17866, 25 perches; No. 15888, 2 acres 3 roods 16 perches; No. 15888, 3 roods 14 perches; No. 15887, 3 acres and 21 perches; No. 15887, 4 acres 1 rood 6 perches; No. 17868, 2 roods 12 perches; No. 17868, 1 acre; No. 17868, 1 rood 22 perches; closed roadway, 1 acre 1 rood 32 perches; No. 17867, 39 porches; No. 22167, 2 acres and 35 perches; No. 22167, 7 acres and 29 perches ; No. 10807, 36 perches; No. 10406, 2 roods 35 perches; No. 12378, 35 perches; No. 11585,12 perches; No. 11585,1 acre and 25 perches; No. 12379, 2 roods 4 perches; No. 10724, 3 roods 16 perches: total, 31 acres 2 roods. James McPherson. —No. 17849, 1 rood 17 perches. John Douglas. —No. 22624, 5 acres 1 rood 11 perches; No. 22624, 17 perches; No. 20175, 1 rood 16 perches; No. 20175, 1 rood 17 perches; No. 20185, 2 roods 29 perches; No. 18960, 5 acres and 7 perches; No. 20508, 1 acre 2 roods 18 perches : total, 13 acres 1 rood 35 perches. Leonard Price. —No. 19555, 5 acres 3 roods 12 perches; No. 19343, 2 roods 13 perches: total, 6 acres 1 rood 25 perches. County Council.— Part road, Waihao Forks, 35 perches. Grand total, 51 acres 3 roods 32 perches.

No. 3. DUNTEOON AND HAKATEEAMEA EAILWAY (OFFICIAL LIQUIDATOE OF) AGEEEMENT. This Deed made the day of , 1885, between George Septimus Brodrick, Official Liquidator of the Duntroon-Hakateramea Eailway Company (Limited), hereinafter termed " the liquidator," of the one part, the Hon. Edward Eichardson, Minister for Public Works, for and on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen (who, with his successors in office, is hereinafter referred to as " the Minister "), of the other part. Whereas the liquidator has agreed to sell and the Minister has agreed to purchase at the sum o^ £61,100 the railway known as the Duntroon-Hakateramea Eailway, extending from the Township of Duntroon, Otago, to the Eound Hill, Hakateramea Valley, Canterbury, together with all lands, permanent way, buildings, materials, rolling-stock, tools, furniture, implements, and things belonging to or used in connection with the said railway in any manner whatsoever, as hereinafter more particularly appears : Now these presents witness as follows :— I. That the liquidator hereby agrees to sell, and the Minister, for and on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, agrees (subject to approval as hereinafter mentioned) to purchase, at the price or sum of £61,100 —Firstly, all those lands described in the First Schedule hereto ; secondly, all that railway known as the Duntroon-Hakateramea Eailway, extending from the Township of Duntroon, Otago, to the Eound Hill, Hakateramea Valley, Canterbury, as far as the railway is at present constructed, including all material, buildings, tools, rolling-stock, furniture, goods, chattels, effects, and things of