WHEREAS the Council of the Borough of Caversham, in the Provincial District of Otago, published in the said borough a notice setting forth certain particular works for the purpose of drainage and other purposes within the said borough, proposed to be undertaken by the said Council; also, that the sum of twenty thousand pounds was proposed to be borrowed for the purposes of such works, on the security of the general rates of the said borough: And whereas the Colonial Secretary published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three (number nine), a notice, which he had received from the Mayor of the said borough, that, at a poll taken in the said borough of the burgesses on the roll of the said borough on the said proposal, the number of votes given for the said proposal exceeded one-half of the total number of burgesses, and that he the said Mayor had declared the proposal carried: And whereas it would be to the advantage of the said borough that a deviation from the works for the purpose of drainage comprised in the said resolution should be made: And whereas particulars of portions of the said works for drainage included in the said proposal and resolution are set forth in the First Schedule: