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such manner and with such machinery, works, or other appliances as maybe authorised or required under any law or regulations for the time being in force, including the doing of all lawful acts or things incidental or conducive to such mining, and the lawful use or holding of all business, machine, or residence sites, or the construction of water-races, dams, reservoirs, drives, tunnels, or other works of any kind in, on, or under any such lands, and all rights and privileges annexed thereto, or that may be held or exercised therewith respectively, in accordance with any such laws or regulations as aforesaid : " Month " means a calendar month : "Original contract" means the hereinbefore in part recited deed of the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five :... " Section" means a section of the railway to be constructed, maintained, and worked under these presents, as shown on the map marked "Al," hereunto annexed, and such further or additional sections as may be hereafter agreed upon between the parties from time to time: "The Engineer" means an engineer or engineers to be appointed from time to time by the Governor for any of • ■ the purposes of the principal Act, the said Act, or these presents : " The Governor " has the like meaning as is attached thereto by " The Interpretation Act, 1878 " : "The said railway" means the two several lines of railway from Springfield to Brunnerton, and from Brunnerton to Belgrove, mentioned in these presents, and to be constructed, maintained, and worked in accordance therewith, with all necessary buildings, works, and appliances requisite for working the same : " The principal Act " means " The Eailways Construction and Land Act, 1881 " : "The said Act" means " The East and West Coast (Middle Island) and Nelson Eailway and Eailways Construction Act, 1884," and includes the amendments of the said Act so far as the said Act and such amendments are respectively operative : "To work" or "working" the said railway or any section thereof, or "worked," means running trains drawn by locomotive engines thereon for the carriage or conveyance for hire of passengers, animals, or goods, and. generally in all respects carrying on, upon, and about the":said railway the business of railway-carriers in all its branches, so that the said railway shall be open for public traffic, and includes the supply and maintenance of all necessary rolling-stock and equipment for the purpose of such traffic, and the services of all requisite officers, servants, or agents that may be necessary for carrying on the traffic on the said railway, or any section thereof, as the case may be: And whenever any officer of the Queen is referred to by the title of his office, it shall be understood to refer to the person for the time being holding such office. 2. The Company shall and will, with all convenient speed and within the term of ten years computed from the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, or within such further time after the expiration of that period as may be allowed in that behalf under these presents, at its own cost and expense in all things, construct and completely finish a line of railway so as to connect at Springfield, in the Provincial District of Canter-

Company to construct railway within ten years from 17th January, 1885, from Springfield to Brunnerton, and from Brunnerton by way of Reefton to Belgrove.