Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

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tendent the names of Messrs. George Turney Fer-
gusson and Josiah Sales, as having been elected Auditors for that District for the current year.

Reader Wood,
Provincial Secretary.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 31st December, 1875.

THE following Tenders have been accepted for Services and Supplies during the Nine months, commencing 1st January, 1876.

Reader Wood,
Provincial Secretary.

1. Printing—Henry Brett.
2. Stationery—John Henry Upton, and Co.
3. Binding—William Leys.
4. Carting—George McCaslin.
5. Shoemaker’s Supplies for Mount Eden Gaol—No tender received.
6. Blacksmith’s Supplies for Mount Eden Gaol—T. & S. Morrin.
7. Conveyance of Prisoners and Patients—F. Quick.
8. Rations for Mount Eden Gaol—H. S. Meyers.
9. Rations for Lock-up—C. Burton.
10. Prison and Police Supplies—C. Burton.
11. Provisions for Provincial Hospital—H. S. Meyers.
12. Provisions for Old Men’s Refuge—H. S. Meyers.
13. Provisions for Provincial Lunatic Asylum—H. S. Meyers.
14. Bread for Hospital and Refuge—T. Teasdale.
15. Meat for Hospital and Refuge—Reuben Elley.
16. Bread for Lunatic Asylum—R. Wilson & Co.
17. Meat for Lunatic Asylum—R. Reeves.
18. Milk for Hospital and Refuge—T. Johnston.
19. Milk for Lunatic Asylum—F. Hewin & Co.
20. Rations for Sick and Destitute—At Auckland and Onehunga, T. W. Doonin; at Thames, F. Hewin and Brother; at Panmure, S. Wallington; at Howick, George Wagstaff; at Waikuku, Papakura, and Otahuhu—No tenders received.
21. Coals—W. & G. Winstone.
22. Firewood—For Offices, &c., John Brown; for Lunatic Asylum, Richard Smyth.
23. Drugs, &c., for Hospital and Lunatic Asylum—No tender received.

MANGA PAI HIGHWAY DISTRICT.

THE Assessment List for the year ending June 30, 1876, has been finally settled. The rate book can be seen at Mr. William Harrison’s Store, Mangapai, and Messrs. William Fraser, of Mangapai, and Samuel Wells, Queen-street, Auckland, are appointed Collectors. All rates must be paid by January 31st, or proceedings will be taken for their recovery.

William Harrison,
Chairman of District Board.
December 18th, 1875.

CROWN GRANTS.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 29th December, 1875.

HEREBY notify that Crown Grants in favour of the persons named in the following Schedule are now ready for delivery at the Office of the Registrar of Deeds, Auckland.

D. A. Tolé,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

Improvement Commissioners Office,

Auckland, 31st December, 1875.

THE Auckland Improvement Commissioners hereby give notice that they will cause to be sold by Public Auction on or about the 31st January, 1876, the allotments in Princes, Alfred, O’Rorke, Symonds, Wellesley, Rutland, and Symonds streets, for the period of 99 years.

R. H. Stevenson,
Secretary.

Extract from New Zealand Gazette. No. 69, dated 9th December, 1875, page 787.

Regulations for Water Rights.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th December, 1875.

THE following Regulations for Water Rights in the Province of Auckland, recommended by his Honor the Superintendent and Commissioner of Crown Lands of that province, and approved by his Excellency the Governor, are published for general information.

Daniel Pollen.

Regulations for granting Water Rights, under Part 7, Section 73, of “The Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1874.”

1. The words “water right” shall be understood to mean and include the right to take, divert, or use any water flowing in, through, over, or along any Crown Lands, or in, through, over, or along any lands of any person applying hereunder for such right, for the purpose of forming any dam, reservoir, lead, or flume, and any embankment in connection therewith.

2. Every Water right under part 7, section 73, of “The Auckland Waste Lands Act, 1874,” shall be granted for a period to be so fixed in the grant not exceeding twenty-one years, subject nevertheless to the determination thereof, as in manner hereinafter provided.

3. Every grant of such Water right shall be subject to the reservation of a certain sum of money annually, by way of rent; the amount of such rent, and the time and manner of payment thereof, to be fixed by the Superintendent, and to be specified in the grant.

4. Every person to whom any Water right shall hereafter be granted for any of the purposes contained in the said section of the said Act, shall build or construct securely, safely, and in a proper and workmanlike manner, any dams, reservoirs, leads, flumes, embankments, or other works constructed under the authority of such Water right, and shall keep and maintain the same in a proper state of repair.

5. It shall be lawful, in every case where the water right is not fully utilized, for the Superintendent to re-assume control and re-allocate such rights as he deems fit.