442 AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

HAURAKI GOLDFIELD.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 6th December, 1870.

IT is hereby notified that the Applications for Mining Leases set forth in the Schedule hereunder have been withdrawn.

Thomas B. Gillies,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

The Long Drive Gold Mining Company, Registered; applied for by Charles Tothill; 15 years’ lease of 7 acres, auriferous land, Kuranui Hill, Karaka; known as “Long Drive” Gold Mining Company’s Claim, held under lease; and “City of Glasgow” Claim; application R. E. 799; withdrawn 3rd December, 1870.

The All Nations Gold Mining Company, Registered; applied for by Charles Tothill; 15 years’ lease of 2 acres 29 perches; bounded by “Oddfellows,” “Junction,” “Inverness,” “Pride,” and “Moanataiari” Claims, Kuranui Hill; Claim held under Miners’ Rights; application R. B. 786; withdrawn 3rd December, 1870.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 15th December, 1870.

IN exercise of the powers vested in the Superintendent in that behalf by “The Slaughterhouse Act, 1866,” of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Auckland, I do hereby make and promulgate the following Rules and Regulations for the management of the Public Slaughter-houses within the said Province; and I declare that the Rules and Regulations now in force shall continue until the 1st day of January, 1871, and then cease to be of any force, and that the Rules and Regulations hereby made shall be in full force on and after that day:—

1. No cattle shall be slaughtered on Sunday in any Slaughter-house.

2. On all other days such Houses shall be kept open during the hours hereinafter specified, for the slaughtering of cattle therein, and for skinning and dressing the carcases of the cattle so slaughtered.

3. Such hours shall be from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Provided always that on Monday mornings, for the said purposes, the said houses may open immediately after midnight.

4. No cattle shall be slaughtered nor carcase skinned or dressed at any such House, except during the times hereinbefore prescribed; and every such House shall be closed and securely fastened within one hour from and after the latest time to which, under these Rules and Regulations, the same may be kept open.

5. No portion of any animal shall be delivered or removed from any Slaughter-house after 5 o’clock p.m., unless delivered and removed with the carcase thereof; and no carcase shall be delivered or removed from such Slaughter-house after 7 o’clock p.m., when the delivery gates shall be closed.

6. The keeper or lessee (as the case may be) of every such House shall cause the same to be kept clean, and to be washed out every day before 10 o’clock a.m. (Sundays excepted), and shall cause the walls and doors thereof to be scraped and whitewashed on the inside once in every month, or twice if deemed necessary; and shall cause all Stock-yards and Sheep-pens thereunto belonging to be kept clean and in repair; all utensils, tackle, &c., used in the slaughtering of cattle to be kept clean and in serviceable condition, and the keeper or lessee shall be answerable for the safe keeping of all utensils, tackle, &c., belonging to such house.

7. The keeper or lessee shall not allow any cattle to run at large in any such House, or on the premises thereto belonging.

8. Cattle taken to any such House to be slaughtered, shall be slaughtered in such House, and not elsewhere.

9. The carcase of every head of cattle slaughtered in any such House shall be skinned and properly dressed therein before the same or any part thereof shall be taken away therefrom; provided always that carcases of veal and lamb may be removed with skins on, if slaughtered and dressed six hours previously.

10. Within eighteen hours after the slaughter of any such head of cattle, every part of the carcase thereof shall be taken away from such House and premises, and all hides, skins, and offal shall be removed daily from such House and premises before 9 o’clock a.m.

11. Every person slaughtering cattle at any such House, shall pay to the keeper or lessee the fees mentioned in the Schedule to the said Act before the removal of the carcase or carcases of such cattle, and shall not remove therefrom, or injure, or destroy any portion thereof.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 17th December, 1870.

IT is hereby notified that the Mining Lease set forth in the Schedule hereunder has been surrendered, and that the land therein mentioned is now open for occupation.

Plan may be seen at the Engineer’s Office, Grahamstown.

Thomas B. Gillies,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

The Jupiter Gold Mining Company, Registered; 15 years’ lease of 4 acres, 1 rood, 16 perches; 13 men’s ground; bounded by “Hague Smith’s,” “British,” “Violet,” and “Albion” Claims; lease dated 31st May, 1870; surrendered 6th December, 1870.

COROMANDEL GOLDFIELD.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 17th December, 1870.

IT is hereby notified that the Mining Lease set forth in the Schedule hereunder has been surrendered, and that the land therein mentioned is now open for occupation.

Plan may be seen at the Engineer’s Office, Coromandel.

Thomas B. Gillies,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

Ernest Style; 15 years’ lease of 4 acres, 2 roods, 18 perches; 13 men’s ground; adjoining the “Royal Alfred,” “Golden Ring,” and “Whakaroa and Puketutu,” Claims; lease dated 5th April, 1870; surrendered 9th December, 1870.