NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in pursuance of "the Abandonment of Railways Act, 1850," and "The Railway Companies Cat,1867," the PETERSFIELD and BISHOP'S WALTHAM RAILWAY COMPANY have made application in writing to the Board of Trade, setting forth that the said Petersfield and Bishop's Waltham Railway Company are desirous that the Railway by "The Petersfield and Bishop’s Waltham Railway Act, 1864," authorised to be made and therein described as "A Railway commencing in the parish of Bishop's Waltham, in the county of Southampton, by a Junction with the Bishop's Waltham Railway at or near the Termination thereof, and terminating in the parish of Buriton, in the said County, by a Junction with the Portsmouth Railway of the London and South Western Railway, near the Petersfield Station thereon,"—should be ABANDONED.
And NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that any person who may think himself aggrieved by such proposed abandonment of the said Railway, and who may desire to object thereto, may bring such objection before the Board of Trade by sending a written statement thereof by post on or before the eighth day of July next, addressed to the Assistant Secretary of the Railway Department, Board of Trade, Whitehall, London.
     Dated this twentieth day of May, 1868.

G. W. BROWN, Secretary