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order, and no such person shall be liable for any damages that may ensue therefrom.

27. Any person, other than some person in the employ of the Harbour Committee, as provided in the foregoing regulation, cutting or casting loose, any fastening attaching any boat or vessel to any wharf, shall forfeit and pay a fine for each offence not exceeding the sum of five pounds.

28. No pitch, tar, or other combustible, shall be boiled or placed on any fire, within twenty yards of any wharf or of any vessel (except by the authority in writing of some person empowered by the Harbour Committee to give the same) and any breach of this regulation shall subject the party offending, to the forfeiture of any sum not exceeding five pounds.

29. Any person having charge of any vessel, shall be liable for any damage, caused by such vessel, to any wharf or pier or other Harbour works, over and above any fine or forfeiture for breach of any bye-law, unless such vessel shall be in charge of any person, duly authorised by the Harbour Committee, to take charge of the same and such damage shall happen through his inefficiency or neglect.

Note.—Regulations by His Excellency the officer administering the Government, under the authority of the Ordinance of the Legislative Council, No. 15, of Session 2, in reference to “Pilots and Masters of Vessels,” “Post Office and Mails,” and “Quarantine” have been published by the General Government and may be seen on application at the Office of the Harbour Committee.

Attention is directed to these regulations.

W. Powditch,
Chairman of Harbour Committee.

Sealed and signed, according to the Act, in presence of the Committee, 27th September, 1854.

I hereby signify my assent to these Bye Laws.

R. H. Wynyard,
Superintendent.

IMPOUNDED

Impounded at the Public Pound, Hobson’s Bridge, Hundred of Auckland, Newmarket, by Mr. Brennan, for running at large at Panmure:—
1 dark bay entire Horse, no brand legible.

Also—Impounded by Mr. Pollock, for running at large in Onehunga:—
1 light bay entire Horse, no brand, aged 2 years.

If not claimed to be sold at the Pound, at noon on the 21st November, 1854, agreeably to the provisions of the Impounding Ordinance, Vic. 11, Sec. 8, No. 6.

Joseph Osborne,
Poundkeeper.

Public Pound, Oct. 20, 1854.

Impounded at the Public Pound, Hobson’s Bridge, Hundred of Auckland, Newmarket, by Mr. Cleghorne, for trespassing in an enclosed crop of potatoes, at Epsom:—
1 red and white poley Heifer, branded I off ribs.

Also—Impounded by Mr. Goodfellow, East Tamaki, for trespassing in my ground:—
1 Cow and Calf, branded JM on rump, 8 on ribs.

If not claimed to be sold at the Pound, at noon on the 21st November, 1854, agreeably to the provisions of the Impounding Ordinance, Vic. 11, Sec. 8, No. 6.

Joseph Osborne,
Poundkeeper.

Public Pound, Oct. 26, 1854.

Amount of the Notes in circulation at the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Wellington, on the 16th day of September, 1854.

Amount of Notes in circulation on the 16th day of Sept., 1854, being the close of the preceding four weeks, viz.:—
£5 and upwards ... £13,810
Under £5 ... 19,859

Total ... £33,669

Total amount of Coin held by the same office on the same day, viz.:—
Gold ... £13,135
Silver ... 534

Total ... £13,669

I, Henry St. Hill, being the Manager of the said Bank, do hereby certify that the above is a true account of the notes in circulation and of the coins held by the said office, as required under Ordinance No. 16, Sess. 8, No. 6.

P.P. Henry St. Hill,
Manager.

Henry St. Hill.

Colonial Bank of Issue,
Wellington, 16th Sept., 1854.

The sum of twenty thousand pounds (£20,000) sterling has been invested under the Warrant of His Excellency the Governor, in the Public Funds in England, through the Commissariat Department, by arrangements made through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury.